Mobile Spaces all the way..
Sending photos to your space

Several days ago we made uploading photos taken with your camera phone to Spaces more powerful. In the past you could post them only to your blog. Now you can also post photos directly to photo albums. You can do it as long as your phone allows you to send e-mail. There are two ways to set up the feature: from the PC site and from the mobile site.

If you are on the PC just go to your space (make sure that you’re signed in), go to Options, then E-mail publishing, and at the bottom of the page you’ll see a list of e-mail addresses for photo albums in your space. Each email address has the following format:

Member_name.Keyword_of_your_choice.Secret_word@spaces.live.com.

By default the keyword is a GUID, but you can change it to any string that you want. Then just add the email address to your phone’s address book and you can start sending photos to the photo albums in your space.

Another way to enable the feature is from the mobile site. Just go to http://mobile.spaces.live.com in your mobile browser, sign in and go to your space. From there, navigate to the photo album to which you want to post photos and select “E-mail publishing.” You’ll be given an e-mail address for that photo album (once again, you can change the keyword used in the email address to anything that you like).

One more note: if you want to post photos to a completely new album you can do it too. Just go to your space in the mobile browser and select the link to “Add an album”. Then save the email address generated for that photo album to your address book and you're all set.

PS. According to Telephia’s research Windows Live Spaces are #2 in the UK and #3 in the US among the sites receiving mobile-generated content.

我还是喜欢简单一些的
为何不开发CSS？
我喜欢自己弄自己的风格－－

 

 

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Get some new themes for your Space!
Source: The Spaces Team

We’ve been spending a lot of time lately working on making your space load faster and adding cool video features; but we know that you all LOVE new themes and customization options.

So we asked a few of the designers from Windows Live to create some new default themes for you all.   AND, if you’re into basketball – there are a bunch of LeBron James themes under the sports category as part of the upcoming LeBron challenge on MSN (more on that coming soon).
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_____Art: ___________________Music and entertainment:
____ · Street Graffiti__________ · Music Machine
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_____Nature: ________________Objects:
____ · Cat Tails______________ · Ropes
____ · Garden Lawn 
____ · Moon set 
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_____Patterns: _______________Sports:
____ · Light Stream___________ · LeBron Book
____ · Tiles_________________ · LeBron Graffiti
____ · Wallpaper Stripes_______ · LeBron Hoops
___________________________ · King James
___________________________ · Slick LeBron
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_____Check them out below:

Note: All of these themes are available in English speaking countries now and will be available worldwide at the end of the month with the exception of the Lebron themes which are currently only available in  the US.

Also, don’t forget that if you’re using the “Colors” feature to change the colors in your space (for text, links, backgrounds etc.), that your colors will be applied to the new themes when you browse through them.  To see the themes without your colors, go to Customize > Colors and click the link to “Clear your settings and use the default colors” (if you don’t click Save, you won’t lose your custom colors if you decide you don’t like any of the new themes. Make sure you click Cancel!)

1. Go to www.google.com
2. At the box where you search, type in this format.

?intitle:index.of? mp3 ***

The *** is for you to replace it with the artist and song title.

3. Click on the Google Search button.
4. Now you should see a list of all the websites that has the MP3 that you’re looking for.

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Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” button renamed to “Take me to Wikipedia” result button (Joke)

I am feeling lucky no more?

It is a know fact that google ranks wikipedia entries higher in it’s search results. It should therefore replace the underused ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’  button to ‘Take me to Wikipedia’ button and save everyone the trouble!

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Full width Banner code

Due to the recent spaces update (11.1) the full width banner and multiple sandboxes were not possible to enable anymore. The multiple sandbox tutorial has been updated and it is now possible to have it again.

I was just playing about with the banner code and
it is now possible to have that too (again!)

Here is the code:

The latest version of Windows Live Messenger (the artist formerly known as MSN Messenger) was released today, with some bug fixes and the following minor enhancements:

Roaming Identity - Your display name, status
    and personalization available from any PC

New Contact Cards

Windows Vista compatability

SMS Phone Book

Improved Usability

Personal Contact Invitations

Available in 8 more languages:

1. Bulgarian - Messenger ви казва: Здравейте!
2. Estonian - Messenger ütleb: Tere
3. Croatian - Messenger kaže: Zdravo
4. Latvian - Messenger saka: Sveiks!
5. Romanian - Messenger spune: Salut!
6. Serbian Latin - Messenger kaže: Zdravo
7. Thai - Messenger พูดว่า: สวัสด
8. Ukrainian - Messenger повідомляє: Привіт

Nothing really to write home about, but if you must have the latest version, check out the following links:

Download: Windows Live Messenger v8.1
Download: Windows Live Messenger Patch (Bandwidth issues may cause this link to fail, try again later)

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Source: liveandbeyond.com

Another beta goes, another one is in the works. Windows Live Messenger 8.1 has been around now for around 6 months and a few days, and now it’s time the doors were shut. There were 3,009 registered users on the beta, a total of 1,010 bugs and 456 suggestions in total spanning the 6 months the product was in beta, and the newsgroups had over 6,000 posts. That’s quite something.

There are no final prizes for testers this time round, and work on Windows Live Messenger 9.0 has already begun (there will be no more interim releases, or at least if there are, there won’t be any beta programs for it). Current testers of Windows Live Messenger 8.1 who have access to the Microsoft Connect pages will be automatically transferred to the next beta (9.0) so don’t you worry - plenty more to come.

Source: The Spaces Team

We’re thrilled to announce we’ve just released the latest version of Windows Live Spaces.  In addition to a number of back-end updates, below are some of the new features we think will enhance your Spaces experience even more:

Videos, videos and more videos

You asked for it, we created it!  We’ve built more rich media capabilities into Windows Live Spaces so it’s easier for you to display your favorite videos on Spaces.  You can now embed videos directly into your Spaces blog entries.  Adding a visual element to your blogs can help you tell your story.

If you prefer to display your videos in independent modules, you can now easily add the Soapbox gadget and a Universal Video Player gadget directly from within the Customize menu in Spaces.  The Universal Video Player allows you to display videos that are hosted anywhere on the Internet.  It’s easy to find, it’s easy to add and it’s super easy to play your favorite videos on your Space.

Be instantly notified of changes to your favorite Spaces!

It’s now even easier to find out who updated what on their Space and when…and you can be one of the first to find out!  You can now sign-up to receive updates in real time for blogs, photos, lists and comments in your favorite Spaces.   Simply click on the “Sign up for alerts” link in the Visitor tools module of your favorite Spaces and start receiving your updates right away.   We want you to try it out and tell us what you think of alert, so we’ve limited this new functionality to English Spaces first.

We hope you enjoy these new features and look forward to receiving your feedback!

Here is an article on how to Auto-start any YouTube video. When you add a YouTube video to your blog or website it does not start playing automatically. With this simple hack it is possible.

• Go to YouTube and search for the video you want to play on your Space.

• Copy the embed code that is given for the video

• Open notepad or a new blog entry and paste the give code

For example, I got:

• Modify the code by adding &autoplay=1 after the URL which is shown highlighted above. (This URL will be different in your case as it is a different video)

I got:

• Paste this modified code on your Space / blog / website  and your YouTube will start to play automatically.

• Done!

Taken from: Reporters Without Borders

Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.

Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

前言之前，事过之后：关于实现两个自定义HTML模块的方法，现在已经有不少人拿去用和试了，我想我封也封不住，我爱我家等也把教程贴了出来。因此决定还是把之前公开了不到十二小时的原创教程重新贴出来。我也只能算是个催化剂，加速微软封补漏洞吧，因为之的确是黑客手段。可不管怎样，趁微软还没有行动前我们赶快再利用此法丰富一下自己的space吧。危险性的确是有的，请慎用，且因为此法极具衍生性，因此在对其他模块操作时请慎之又慎，对其可能造成的毁灭性后果恕Jacky盖不负责。声明在此之前已经发表。关于如何使两个模块中的内容不同，也在声明中有所阐述。请使用者务必阅读。

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这个unsupported Custom HTML Module从发布到现在已快一个月了。从一开始大家就抱怨微软还是放不开，只允许添加一个自定义模块，而且还有512字节的限制。这大大限制了我们的创造力。昨晚突发奇想，能不能再继续添加自定义模块？经过长时间多次试验，我已成功再添加了一个自定义模块，可是不能再多。待会儿会说如果再添加会出现的情况。要添加第二个Custom HTML Module：

No.1

你必须要有一个Custom HTML Module。至于如何初始添加此模块，网上各位高手都已经有了很详细傻瓜的教程，我前面的一篇日志也有介绍，这里就不多说了。

No.2

转到编辑界面，点击自定义——>单击此处使用键盘操作的方式来自定义页面——>主提旁边的自定义。这时查看源文件，在里面找到下面这一句

Press Ctrl+C to copy the text below:

type='checkbox' title='This is an unsupported module supplied for the purpose of evaluation.' id='CustomHTML' name='PowerToy: Custom HTML' value='CustomHTML' checked>PowerToy: Custom HTML 

好了，将黄色部分复制一遍，然后粘贴在这句话最后的那个单引号后面。注意，复制后请检查，单引号与之后面一个type之间有一个空格，正如原来这句开头的type与之前面的单引号之间也有空格一样。然后请找到刚才粘贴上去的那句话里的value='CustomHTML' checked，把这里的checked与之前面的空格去掉。

一切完成后，点击菜单栏另存为一个扩展名为htm文件。具体操作：在保存输入文件名时，保存类型选择所有文件，文件名随便输，只要扩展名为htm或html就可以了。保存的路径一定要记住哦！

Click Save !

No.3

打开刚保存的文件。我用的是xpsp2+IE7，在打开时会有风险提示，你要再点击一下提示以显示可能有风险的内容（软件商都爱故弄玄虚）。看！怎么样？在下面的模块栏里多了一个PowerToy: Custom HTML了吧？把它前面的框钩上，然后点最下面的保存。注意，在做No.3的时候，No.2里打开的那个窗口不能关闭，就是原始的那个调整自定义的窗口。如果关掉了的话，将无法保存所作的更改，点击保存后微软将会要你重新登陆。（真是紧啊！）

No.4

在网页的最下面多出了一个Custom HTML Module吧？好了，在里面粘贴你事先准备好的代码吧。点击完保存后，如果里面没有出现你先要的代码，还是原来的话，就试试另一个模块，总有一个是可以的，这里Jacky有点记不清楚了。最后，再把它拖到你想要的位置。怎么样？可以了吧？再预览一下，是不是有两块不同的自定义模块了呢？兴奋了吧？Job done!

后记：在这之后，我又萌生了添加无限多个Custom HTML Module甚至WMPlayer模块。可是我失败了。之后的情形是Space越来越不稳定，而且在有第三个Custom HTML Module出现的时候，总有两个里面的代码是一样的，怎么改也改不过来。再添加呢？还是一样，只有一个模块可以不同于其他的。后来我明白了，其实在这么多个Custom HTML Module里，只有一个是真实的，其余的都是最原始的那个的镜像，是连其模块内代码一道复制出来的，所以都是一样的，甚至你在里面输入超过512字节再点击保存时，他也不会有提示。不过不管怎样，多一个总比就一个好。

Jacky 就只能做到这步了。剩下的工作（继续添加更多的自定义模块）还期待各位高

With the Sandbox you can add any html code,
that is allowed on spaces and display it on the
front page. So Banners, clocks, Stat-maps, Counters, etc. All can be added.

The Custom HTML Power Toy is designed to
allow you to add a sandbox module to your
Space in which you can enter text, link to images, and use other HTML features. The Custom HTML Power Toy supports all of the same HTML that
you can enter into a Blog entry and can be
moved around your Space as a separate module, just like a list or any other Spaces module. Additionally you can control the Title of this module and whether the borders for this module are displayed or not.

Please note that this PowerToy, like the others, is available in English ONLY for now and is UNSUPPORTED. 

Follow these steps to add this Power Toy to your Space:

• Log into Passport and Edit your Space.

• In the Address bar of your web browser add the text “ &powertoy=sandbox ” to the end of the displayed URL.

http://cheungjacky.spaces.live.com/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c02_owner=1&_c=&powertoy=sandbox

• Click the Go button next to your web browser address bar.

• Once the page has finished reloading, click on the Customize tab in your Space.

• In the Modules drop down menu in the Customize tab, click on the section where it says Modules and under subsection 'Others' there should be an Icon for PowerToy: Custom HTML click on it and then click the Save button.

Click on the pictures below to see how it will look like :

This module is useful in many of the tutorials I have put up on this space.

You can start by adding a slideshow. Click here to sign up for an account! In this site you would:

1. Select images from your computer or from the list on your left!

2. You would then upload the images

3. The next step is to choose what kind of slide format you prefer on you right under Customize,

4. Copy the code from the box below into the HTML Sandbox.

Tip:- You can also add many things like counters , Clocks etc. See the tuorials in the various categories on my space. if you have coding problems. Add all of this onto a blog entry, arrange the position , add the hyperlinks, change the size of your pictures, etc. Click on the button and get the code for it. Dont publish your entry. Paste that code into the sandbox and click Save.

To get two more Custom HTML Sandbox click here.

Update:-
A 3rd Party HTML Sandbox gadget has been developed! It takes flash files, embed objects and almost any valid HTML code!  Why not click here to get the HTML sandbox gadget! (Note : This gadget does not have the disable module border/background option and a height - width restriction may be applicable ). You can now have two HTML sandboxes. Click here to learn more..