New Windows Live Writer with easy image Editing

Windows Live Writer new version released. Now You can crop pictures and screenshot images right inside Windows Live Writer without requiring external software. There's a new tilt feature that lets you rotate pictures by a custom angle.

The new version also adds some new visual effects for your photos including Reflection and Rounded Corners. They are simple things but definitely help in making your blog entries more appealing.

check my screenshot,

Windows Live Writer New Features :- 

Video and Image Publishing Enhancements

• Upload videos to Soapbox
• Image cropping and tilting
• Additional border styles
• Support for LightBox and other image previewing effects
• Support for centering images

Editing Enhancements

• Auto Linking
• Smart quotes/typographic characters
• Word count

UI Improvements

• Revised main toolbar
• Tabs for view switching
• Improved category control with search/filtering

New Windows Live Writer Download from here - 4.64mb

Windows Live FolderShare

Windows Live FolderShare is a free service from Microsoft that helps you keep files and folders across multiple computers in sync with each other. You can access your files from any computer (mac also) that is connected to the Internet.

• Keep all your files in sync
  Use FolderShare to create a mirrored image of your most important folders - like your Favorites, Pictures, and Documents - so they're the same on all your computers.
• Sharing files is easier than ever
  Sharing with friends, co-workers, and family is easy when you add and update files in a shared library. Large files? Not a problem - FolderShare can sync files up to 2 GBs in size. And it works on both Mac and PC.
• Get to your files instantly when you're away from home
  Install FolderShare on all your computers, and you can access all your files from any computer on the Internet.

This is the Login page,

Install this Windows FolderShare client on each of your computers to share files and access your computers remotely. It's must.

	Download & Install FolderShare client for Windows
	Download & Install FolderShare client for Mac

After Windows Foldershare client installation, it's look like this in tray

Now I am accessing my office PC files from anywhere,

Live Search Webmaster Center Blog - Launched

Microsoft announced the launch of the new Live Search Webmaster Center Blog

The Live Search Webmaster Team promises to use the blog to communicate:

• New tools and features available to webmasters
• Search engine optimization tips
• A method of open communication with SEOs and Webmasters

You can subscribe to the RSS feed via this link

The other search engines also have blogs to communicate with webmasters. Google has the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Yahoo has the Yahoo Search Blog, and Ask.com has the Ask.com Blog.

Microsoft Launches Live Search Webmaster Tools

The good news is Microsoft Launches Live Search Webmaster Tools at http://webmaster.live.com/

Use the Webmaster Tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, submit sitemaps and view statistics about your websites.

check this blog Live Search Webmaster Center Blog

Live Search adds 'LinkfromDomain' operator: overview

Using Windows Live Search you may find the web pages a specific site
is linking to:

The Live Search's WebLog reports that Microsoft has added a new command to its new search site, namely LinkFromDomain.

"Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain. This complements LinkDomain (which includes all sites that link to a given domain) that was introduced back in June,05"

Here are the sites Pandia is linking to according to Live Search. (There are probably more as Live Search does not have all our pages indexed). Use the following query to achieve this

linkfromdomain:pandia.com

If you want to know who are linking to Pandia, you use the following command:
linkdomain:pandia.com

You can also use this command to check out how many outbound links a specific site has to your site. Live Search has made a separate demo with an adapted search form that demonstrates this.More about Live Search's advanced operators.

See also Search Engine Watch: Windows Live Search Adds linkfromdomain Command

source from: http://www.pandia.com/sew/295-linkfromdomain.html#more-295

3 easy steps to make search engines happy

By Pandia.com Guest Writer Kalena Jordan

Does your web site make search engines happy? Despite all the negative hype lately, it's pretty easy to design a web site that search engines will accept with open arms.
All it takes is 3 easy steps

1) Follow the Search Engine Guidelines
Nearly all search engines publish their own guidelines regarding the submission of sites, the type of sites they will accept and recommendations for optimized content.
Google recently updated their Webmaster Guidelines which cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative search engine behavior that they consider to be 'spam'
They also published SEO Guidelines - advice for webmasters to heed when choosing an SEO. Google was the first search engine to publicly acknowledge search engine optimizers in this fashion.

It's not just Google publishing anti-spam guidelines. You'll find them at the following search engine sites as well:

MSN Search webmaster guidelines
AltaVista terms of use (AltaVista is a Yahoo-owned company)
Yahoo terms of service
Yahoo guidelines on search engine spam (covering AltaVista and AllTheWeb as well)
Yahoo definitions of search engine spam (covering AltaVista and AllTheWeb as well)
Yahoo content guidelines
AskJeeves / Teoma terms of service and spam policy
AskJeeves / Teoma editorial guidelines

2) Avoid Spamming the Search Engines
Often, webmasters will use search engine spam techniques without even being aware that they are doing so. Or worse, web designers can - advertently or inadvertently - integrate techniques that could cause a site to be penalized in the site's rankings in one or more engines, without the site owner's knowledge of such penalties.

The key to avoiding spamming the engines is research.

Keep track of the various search engine guidelines via the links above. Watch for any changes they make to these guidelines and tweak your site accordingly.
Trawl the various webmaster and search engine forums regularly to ensure your site doesn't use any of the latest methods that appear to be penalized.
If you suspect your site has been penalized, remove the offending content, contact the engine concerned and ask to be reinstated.
Google actually encourage you to file a re-inclusion request via their Help Center and this post by Google staffer Matt Cutts outlines what should be included.

Alternatively, here is a sample email template you can use instead:

Sample Re-inclusion Request Email:

Dear [search engine name],
I am the owner of [your site URL].
I did not realize that participation in [spammy method] and [spammy SEO name] programs could cause problems for my website. I was assured that these techniques were search-engine-friendly by [your source for using spammy method].
I now understand that the practices used are not acceptable. I apologize for having allowed them to be placed on my website. I've removed the questionable pages and links from the site. I promise not to repeat such mistakes.
I am asking you to please consider reinstating my website, [your site URL] into the [search engine name] Index.
Sincerely,
[Your Name]

To assist them to provide a high quality service, search engines encourage people to report search results they are dissatisfied with.
If you spot some content spam or techniques that are clearly in breach of the search engine's public guidelines, you can report it using these links:

Google spam report or via search-quality@google.com
AllTheWeb relevancy problem report (AllTheWeb is a Yahoo-owned company)
AltaVista search results manipulation report (or via Yahoo's spam report below)
Yahoo spam report
AskJeeves spam report or via information@ask.com

3) Build Sites for Visitors Rather than Search Engines
The methodologies may have changed over the years, but the same principles have always applied to 'good' or 'white hat' SEO.
Build sites for humans, not search engines. Make the site as user friendly as possible, avoid the bells and whistles and include high quality, relevant content.
Wherever possible, include text-based content and navigation menus with simple, descriptive, well-written copy designed to convert your visitors into customers. Include keywords and phrases your audience would logically type in to search engines to find sites like yours.
Only link to sites that are relevant to your target audience and spend some time on usability, making sure all your forms and shopping carts work.
Remember that what pleases a visitor is almost always what pleases a search engine too.

MSN Launches 'Search and Win' Contest

February 13, 2006, 1:25 PM

MSN has come up with a new plan to draw users away from Google: free stuff. The company launched a contest on Monday that will give users a chance to win prizes simply by using the service's search engine. Over $1 million in prizes will be available during the months of February, March and April.
Prizes include gift certificates from American Express, Target, REI and Nike. MSN will also be giving away Canon PowerShot digital cameras, HP Digital Entertainment Centers, and Creative Zen Sleek MP3 players.
Three selected winners will additionally be able to donate $10,000, $25,000 and $50,000 to the charities of their choice.
1,200 keywords would be initially linked to prizes this month, with more keywords added in March and April. Users would find out if they were winners in the subsequent result page after entering their search term.

more information at www.msnsearchandwin.com

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from: betanews.com/article/MSN_Launches_Search_and_Win_Contest/1139855125