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Top Ten New Cool Features of New Hotmail

1. New Inbox in Hotmail (Windows Live Mail)

The new Inbox in Hotmail now looks a lot more complex in the first look but as you start using it, it gets more and more easier and makes more sense. It gives you all your stuff in one screen with things quiet well arranged.

2. Windows Live Messenger Inside Hotmail

So finally we have this feature. Taken from Gmail, this was one of the most awaited feature, if you ask me, for the Hotmail to have

Now you can chat with your friends from Yahoo as well as Windows Live Messenger in one single window

3. Easier Access to your Social Updates

Hotmail now has the ability to sort your emails and find your Social Updates. It can arrange your Emails from Social Netowrking Websites like Orkut, Facebook, Twitter etc separately so that they become easier to access.

4. Get your Group Mails Easily

Hotmail now will sort your emails from “Groups” and arrange them separately so that they become easier to access.
Similarly, Hotmail provides you an easy way to get your Unread Mails, Mails from your Contacts and then there is a Button which Says “Everything Else” which will bring everything other then the above category mails. Cool!!!

5. Get Your Photos Easily

Its a lot more easier to find your photos in the new Hotmail. Just click on The “Photos” Button and Hotmail will search for all your Mails with Photos and present them to you on a single screen.

6. Get your Documents Easily

Its a lot more easier to work with your Documents in the new Hotmail. Just click on The “Office Docs” Button and Hotmail will search for all your Mails with Documents and present them to you on a single screen.
You also have a New Feature called “Active View”. Once you activate this feature in your Hotmail from options, You will get an Active Preview of all your attachments and documents.

7.Organize your Inbox Easily

Taken from Gmail, this feature will allow you to organize your Emails from all your email Accounts in Folders, Labels, Quick views etc.

8. A Hot New way to Compose New Email

The Compose New Mail page looks better with tons of new features enabling you to write Emails in much better Way. Along with the “Standard Features” we have a much richer Editor which allows you to compose in HTML, Plain Text and Rich Text.

9. Easy Inserting Videos and Pics in New Mail

Inserting Videos and Pics is now lot more easier. Hotmail provides you with a facility of searching New Videos or photos from Bing and attach them to your new mail in a much much easier way. Fun thing is – you Don’t need to leave your Inbox for doing this.
Also, the auto play features of Video will allow you to preview your videos before inserting them.

10. Powerful Contact List on “New Mail” Page

Along with “Microsoft Outlook” like auto complete of Email Addresses, Hotmail now has a new easy and powerful way of accessing your Contact list. Just click on “To” button and all your contacts are sorted based on Categories, Favorites, Recently Mailed etc.

Along with the above mentioned features, Hotmail now has lot of other customizations and features like
Themes
Messenger List on top
A Sweep button
Ability to get Mails from Other Email Accounts
Filters and Rules
A Hot new Favicon

A Gmail Like Arrange By Conversation
Reading Pane Settings
and Lot of other Features.

I am totally loving the new Experience of Hotmail and will give credit to Microsoft for making Hotmail really hot.

Let me know if you get to know more cool features of Hotmail.

Amazing new Options by Google.com today. One of them is Wonder Wheel.

See following pics. This is the wonder wheel introduced by google. The concept is simple. Search something. You will see a flash graph with the search results in bubbles around one your search term. Click on any bubble and it will become the center. Again click on any bubble, the clicked bubble becomes the center.

Try the Google Wonder Wheel and whole new Options

Steps to See this Option -

Note : This might not be available to all of you. Or Probably it is.

1. Search Any Thing.

2. Just Above your Search Result you will see a link called “Show Options…”

3. Click on it. A whole new left menu will appear with lots of new features listed bellow.

› All results
Videos
Forums
Reviews
› Any time
Recent results
Past 24 hours
Past week
Past year
› Standard results
Images from the page
More text
› Standard view
Related searches
Wonder Wheel
Timeline

Play with Options.

Go to Wonder Wheel. Enjoy.

Also Click on Timeline to see something like this

Here are few of the important releases which we can expect from Microsoft in this year.

Lets start with the most important one

Windows 7 – After the first beta hit the market, Windows 7 has impressed a lot of people and PDC pre-beta has impressed almost everyone.

Windows Azure : Fully launch it and make it a big success. Show us this is more than just a late second entry into the cloud market and really smash this one out of the park. We know it’s one of Ozzie’s top projects and Microsoft has been dropping some serious $ change to build data centers.

.NET Framework 4.0 : Developers are waiting to get hands on it

Visual Studio 2010 :  After an impressive 2008, visual stuido is heading to its 2010 version. We will love to have it.

Office Communications Server : Long awaited.

and finally the rumored Windows Mobile 7

Google Launches its new product – Google Chrome – Google’s New Web browser. In its quest to make web a better and healthier place, Google has launched an open source web browser called Chrome. Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. Know more about Google’s – Google Chrome

Features

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favourite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favourite web applications.

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