Microsoft Weblog

November 12th, 2006

BAT/BWG.A and Gmail and IE7 and Windows Live OneCare

I’ve been getting a virus alert message from Windows Live OneCare about a new virus being detected: BAT/BWG.A
Looks like I’m not the only one. If you’re experiencing this problem you can go to this site and get some details on what others are experiencing and what they’re doing to remove the infection.
It seems to occur […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

October 24th, 2006

My Favorite IE7 Feature So Far

I may have just found my favorite feature of all for IE7. The “Add Tab Group…” and “Open Tab Group..” feature. I regularly open the same group of websites everyday when I start up my computer:

Yahoo! Mail
Gmail
Bloglines
iWon
Fox Fantasy Sports

I also regularly open all of the my Admin panels to WordPress at the same time, or […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

July 11th, 2006

Building a Better Browser (for Pocket PC)

I’m really enjoying having the web on my PPC-6700. I’ve discovered that Gmail and Bloglines works great with the device.
The reason they work so great? Because both sites recognize I’m connecting with a mobile device and adjust their display to work with the smaller screen size and functionality of the device itself.
I’d still like to […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

April 25th, 2006

Microsoft Live Mail

I’ve been beta testing Microsoft Live mail although now it’s pretty much publicly available. The interface is a little improvement over the old Hotmail, but it’s still nowhere near enough for me to even think about switching away from my Gmail or Yahoo! account.
Right now I’m really only using my Live mail account as my […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment