Comments by user "Calum.Cook"
Registered since: June 4, 2008
Sticky Notes
Why do you really need it?
Add Photos of People to Windows Live Contacts
Comment edited on April 30, 2011, 1:45am
Windows Live Gadgets
Also, one gadget file that works identically on the desktop and at my.live.com would be good.
Windows Live Personalised Experience (http://my.live.com) should be updated completely or redesigned
@Ensign Joe: Ummm... the Wave 2 design has no icons either... It also has the ugly GIF Windows Live orb and the horrible green search button. I can't understand why you prefer it; the Wave 3 theme seems to actually have had some serious design time.
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Comment edited on April 30, 2011, 1:44am
Wave 4 Sugestion: Introduce a "web cam app" much like Apple's photo booth
Microsoft already have a webcam app that comes with their LifeCam webcams. It includes special effects and things like that.
Let us move the ad to the right side.
You obviously don't agree, Chris, but I could NEVER have too much money ;)
Still, I agree. They can afford to do this without the ads.
Opera Mobile version of mobile.live.com doesn't work
And, IE is not really out of sight. It's in the Start menu by default.
WL Movie Maker's progress window has wrong icon, doesn't show progress in taskbar.
@nyp: works great. Thanks very much. Somehow, I think I'll be using this version even after Windows Live Movie Maker goes final...
Also, it's only 16.5 MB? Wow. So all that stuff in the press about Windows 7 being less bloated because some of the apps have been removed was just in the imagination of the "journalists"? Who'd have thought it? ;)
Let us move the ad to the right side.
Forget moving them around. Just get rid of them.
Windows Live Movie Maker Ribbon is inconsistent
This will probably be fixed. They wouldn't let something like those shadows get out the gate, so they'll probably update it to the new Ribbon style. And it is being fixed, Joe. We're getting more effects and transitions, and "something resembling a timeline".
WL Movie Maker's progress window has wrong icon, doesn't show progress in taskbar.
It is an early beta. Here it is, verbatim, from the Windows Live Team:
"You’d like more transitions, more effects, multiple soundtracks, and more video editing features like trim and split. As movie makers ourselves, we’re in the same boat as you are. We want those fun “shatter” transitions and “warp” effects just as much as you do! We’re definitely working on improving this and plan to have a range of rich-editing capabilities in the first official version.
You’d like something resembling a timeline in the product. In the Movie Maker beta, the storyboard didn’t have the ability to represent time like a traditional timeline would. We’ve heard you say that you’d like to be able to drag and drop clips to get them to start and end where you want, and that you’d like to have music and text that span multiple photos or video clips. We’ve also heard that you’d like to – at a glance – see which clips are longer than others, which clips have effects applied, and which clips have transitions. Now, I don’t want to give too much away just yet (we still have work to do!), but we’re definitely aware of these limitations. We’ve developed a new approach that we think will help address some of the shortcomings of the beta and will scale well from novice to experienced users without requiring people to switch views in order to get things done. "
Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner Setup is inconsistent with other dialogs
MS are supposed to be bringing out another AV solution, free this time, to replace OneCare. I've not heard any news on it for ages. Is it going to be ready for Win7 coming out?
20 people limit in Group
They're not controlling your life. You don't have to use their products if you don't like them.
Stationery setup wizard is wizard97 style
Wrote on February 12, 2010, 6:29pm
Actually, it doesn't use the Segoe UI font.