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581 days ago
Want to be able to personalize your browser to give you one click access to your favorite webpages? We've invited Shannon from the Windows Live Toolbar team to explain a little bit more about how to create a custom toolbar button: One of the best ways to customize and personalize Windows Live Toolbar is to create custom buttons. Custom buttons allow you to create shortcuts to a website, to search a website directly from the Toolbar searchbox and to display information in the button’s menu or in a HTML window. These customizations let you personalize the toolbar and are really easy to make. You can make a custom button to show the weather in your city, to play a game inline in the browser or anything else that you can imagine. Some examples of custom buttons are the MSN, Gallery and News buttons that are installed by default with the Toolbar. The MSN button, for example is the button with the butterfly icon that contains a shortcut to the MSN homepage and has links to ...
593 days ago
Hello Gallery, Donovan is one of our Silver partners on Gallery and he's helped create even more top quality gadgets which are now available on Gallery. We're cross-posting the following from Graceworld: http://blogs.msdn.com/graceworld/archive/2008/04/09/get-your-sidebar-gadgets.aspx Our team recently released a series of Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets with the help of Donovan West from LiveGadgets.net . These visually appealing gadgets provide a friction-free desktop mechanism for keeping users engaged and up to date with our latest content on Channel 8 , Channel 9 , Channel 10 , TechNet Edge , and Mix Online . Features: · Automatic rotation of latest articles on the site allows you to quickly see what’s new and keep up to date without opening a browser · Read articles and view videos right on your desktop or navigate directly to the post · ...
615 days ago
Gallery is pleased to announce that we now offer customizable Messenger display pictures! We’ve joined with a few Gold tier partners to bring you more premium content, including winks. In some cases, you’ll need Microsoft Points to purchase the new premium content. Don’t have Microsoft Points? Just click Buy when you’ve found the item you want, and you’ll have the opportunity to buy some Microsoft Points. After your purchase, you’ll be able to add your new custom display picture to Messenger and find a record of it in your Gallery purchase history. Check out our new stores focused on each of our three Gold partners: The LOL Family brings you 3-D display pictures, emoticons, and backgrounds. MyShow offers a wide variety of customizable display pictures. WeeWorld has over 50 free winks to share with you Hope you enjoy! - Katarina and the rest of the Windows Live Gallery Team
700 days ago
Now that the holiday promotion has come to a close, we are very pleased to announce the winning display picture and background. Thank you to everyone who submitted entries and congratulations to Mary , who was our overall winner in both the display picture and the background category. These items will be featured on our Messenger page. The winning hamster display pic , by Mary: And the matching Christmas Hamster background, also by Mary: Happy Holidays from all of us at Windows Live Gallery!735 days ago
The Windows Live Gallery team is excited to announce a new promotion - submit a “Holiday-themed” Messenger emoticon, display picture, or background, and your item may be featured in Gallery. If you’re feeling really creative, you can submit a pack of all three for some special recognition. So get with the Holiday spirit - here’s what need to know before you enter: How to enter Entries must be submitted between November 19, 2007 and December 11, 2007. The promotion will close December 11, 2007 at 5:00 PM (PST) You may submit the following items: animated or static emoticons, static backgrounds, or static display pictures. To be eligible for special recognition (theme pack winner), you need to submit a pack of all three items. If you can’t submit all three, just submit as many as you can - you’ll still be eligible for awards. Already have a Holiday-themed item you want to submit? Please make sure that you select "English" so that you'll ...
