Windows Live
I have just installed some new windows live applications that you may be interested in.
http://download.live.com/wlmail
Probably the most useful one for me is the outlook connector for live mail. I am often late answering e-mails sent to my live account as I need to log in to hotmail to see them.
In the past hotmail has supported pop3 but then dropped support for it. With the connector I can now access my hotmail account through outlook 2003. - Just downloading the last 12 years of e-mails that I haven’t managed properly.
Another handy tool is the Windows Live Writer which allows me to write and publish my blog posts from a desktop application. I am writing this article in Windows Live Writer now as a test. All I had to do was set the xml publishing option in Wordpress settings to allow the application to publish blogs to my website.