Live Essential Beta… Better and Improved!

Now that the new Live Essentials is here, let’s take a look on how improved it is and how will it help me to make may daily tasks easier than ever.

Live Writer Beta

Of all the applications included in the Live Essentials, the Writer is very useful to me.  Since I blog every now and then, the Writer is my companion in writing my articles and publishing it to my blogs (www,needlehandler.blogspot.com and www.techiemt.spaces.live.com).  The Writer is way better than the online editor of my blog accounts for it has more tools to make my article better looking.  The first noticeable improvement of the Writer is the ribbon which is a feature that you can only see in Microsoft Office.   If a may say, it’s like a MS Word Lite edition for there’s already paragraph formatting, spelling checker, html styles, and best of all, the Writer has now picture editing tool!  Now I don’t have to use third party software to edit pictures to be included to my blog.  The funny thing added is, I can now insert emoticons which I find it cool! The Writer is now more intelligent than it’s predecessor!

 

Live Photo Gallery Beta

Like the Writer the most noticeable change in Photo Gallery is the ribbon.  Organizing and sharing your photos is now easier using face recognition, tags, and keywords.  Lots of tools are added like the pre-set picture effects, picture tagging, the retouch feature wherein the program will automatically replace any imperfection in the picture that I want it to be removed, of course my favorite photo stitch for making my awesome panoramic photos is still there.  I can also share my favorite photos in Windows Live, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube.

Live Mail Beta

For those who are using MS Office Home and Student which doesn’t have an Outlook.  The Live Mail is a good alternative!  Like the MS Outlook, Live mail also allows you to  manage multiple e‑mail accounts—Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and more—in one program. Access your e‑mail, contacts and calendar even when you're offline.  I really never used the Live Mail for I used Outlook on my email accounts.  Now if you can’t afford to get an Outlook better settle for the Live Mail which has an Outlook Like  functionality than nothing at all

Live Movie Maker Beta

I seldom use this application from the Live Essentials, but with the looks of it making or compiling a movie clip is easy.  The AutoMovie feature is a proof that making your movies out of your videos and photos is a lot easy.  Features like transitions, effects and themes will make your movie more appealing. After compiling your movie you can always share it to your friends via Live sky drive, YouTube and the phenomenal Facebook!

Live Messenger Beta

The Messenger has a complete makeover! Though the messenger is in the main stream for sometime, I have never seen it like this!  With the new messenger, I’m up to date on what’s happening with my network!  I can see updates from my Facebook  and my Windows Live account!  Pictures and videos uploaded by my friends in social networking sites like Facebook is displayed on the left panel of my Messenger, for me to view while chatting!

Live Sync Beta

This is the new addition in the family and the replacement of the Live Mesh (I think ).  A very useful program to synchronize you files when you are using 3 or more PCs like me.  Transferring and  copying files from my laptop to my desktop and to my work PC is hassle for me.  I can still remember I bought a flash drive to store my documents for ease of access.  Just plug it into one of my PCs, edit and update it, and copy it again to my laptop.  With Live Sync, I’ll just add the file or folder for synchronization, add the devices where I want that file or folder to be synchronized, select if I want to have an online copy too (to be stored in Sky Drive) and that’s it!  As soon as I open my synchronized device it will connect to the cloud, download, sync, and update my files and fielders.  The online copy stored in my Sky Drive is useful when incidentally I didn’t bring my laptop with me, I can just access it in an internet café edit it via Office Web Apps, save it and share it!  Program settings form Internet Explorer and MS Office can also me synchronized!  Accessing my other PC is also possible via Remote Access feature of the Live Sync.   This a very cool application I’ll never know what to do again if Live Sync will be gone.  There’s one thing that disappoints me, and a big question for me too, why is it that Live Mesh ahs a dedicated 5 GB of online storage while the new Live Sync has only 2 GB? I hope in the final release of the New Windows Live Essentials the 5 GB online storage will be restored

All I can say is that Live Essentials is simpler, better, safer, awesome and AMAZING!

 

Windows Live Essentials beta system requirements

Windows Live Essentials requires the following:

• Operating system: 32- and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 with the Platform Update for Windows Vista, Windows 7,Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 2 and the Platform Update for Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2.

• Processor: 1.6 GHz or higher

• Memory: 1 GB of RAM or higher

• Resolution: Minimum: 1024 × 576

• Internet connection: Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately). Local or long-distance charges may apply.

• Graphics or video card: Windows Live Movie Maker requires a video card that supports DirectX 9 or higher and Shader Model 2 or higher.

Additional requirements

The following components are needed for certain Windows Live programs and may also be installed for you if they're not found on your computer.

• For Photo Gallery and Movie Maker: Some components of DirectX 9.

• For Sync: To run Sync on a Mac, you must have OS X 10.5 or newer installed.

 

Download the Windows Live Essentials Beta here or by clicking the picture below and experience these FREE but powerful programs and applications!