Windows Live Favorites… Do More With It!

September 19th, 2008 Posted in Social Bookmarking, Weblog Posted by Ricky

Microsoft and Windows always go hand in hand. And when we take their name together, the words like trust, faith, loyalty etc. always come to our minds. Such is their goodwill than they both have created over these years, individually and collectively. Microsoft Window’s Live have an entire range of services to offer to its users. And one of its major services and most loved services include Windows Favourite Live. It offers services just a social bookmarking website would do.

With Windows Live Favorites you can access your favourite bookmarks from any computer. However, not more than thousand favourites and folders are allowed for one single user account. Did I say account? Yes, you need to register yourself first and then before you get down to your bookmarking business, just make sure that you have logged into it.

Accessing your bookmarks from any computer in the world is one thing. With Windows Live Favorites you can also edit then from wherever you wish to. Further more features that are provided by Windows Live Favorites are also very simple and extremely easy to use.

Like most other social bookmarks, you can export or import your favourite bookmarks from different browsers such as Internet Explorer and MSN Explorer. The ways in which you can add more favorites to your list are also extremely user friendly. You can choose from the options such as dragging and a dropping your bookmark to your list of the favorites, or you can simply do this job by a single click on the ‘Add Favorite’ button. Furthermore, you can also simply use the right-click button and choose from its menu the option of ‘Add to Windows Live Favorites ’. And last but not the least, you can also click the Add option from the Add menu at the top of the page.

The most used features, apart from that of adding bookmarks to your list of favorites, include features such as previewing the favorite web pages from within Windows Live Favorites using the In-Line preview option; a simple right-click in order to edit the properties of your favorites; quickly finding favorites using names, address, folders or tags or better known as the Real-time search etc.

And it’s not all…Windows Live Favorites can be easily integrated with a number of other services offered by Microsoft Window’s Live. Some of these are:

Windows Live Toolbar- to synchronise their favorites between Internet Explorer and Windows Live Favorites.

Windows Live Spaces- to share your favorite bookmarks with public and search other’s bookmarks using built-in search box.

Windows Live Messenger- to manage your favorites directly from the program itself. Real-time search is possible using this.

Live.com- to view the top favorites, to search favorites, to add new links to favorites, to view top favorites organized by tags or folders.

With Microsoft Windows you can expect new things and new features. They are constantly working in order to give you something more each time. So do more with it. And trust me, things shall only get better. Try it once. You might fall in love with it.

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