Jonathan Mumm

I’ve used Hotmail, MSN Mail, Live Mail for a long time, and slowly but surely Microsoft continues to add features that bring the slightly clunky web email up to modern standards.

Unfortunately, they don’t let you add custom photos for any of your contacts.
In fact, the only built-in way to get your contacts to have a photo is to have them setup a Live ID on their email, and have them add an avatar.

Oddly enough, my Android phone has a handy feature of syncing contacts from multiple sources (like my Address book and Facebook/Twitter) and it will bring all of their information and photos together into one contact. It’s really handy, and easy to use. While browsing some of Live Mail’s options, I wondered if the same would be possible for my desktop mail.

It turns out that Live Mail has a similar ability to integrate 3rd party services into your contact list.

Most people in the USA use Facebook as their social networking platform, and Microsoft products and Facebook like to play well together as much as possible.
From Microsoft’s Help webpages:

How do I connect Facebook?

You can get Facebook updates and chat with Facebook friends in Windows Live Messenger [or Live Mail] by connecting the Facebook service to Windows Live.

To connect the Facebook service

1. On a PC, go to the connect services webpage. You might need to sign in with your Windows Live ID.

2. Click Facebook.

3. On the Connect Facebook to Windows Live webpage, decide which activities you want friends to see in Messenger and in Facebook, and then click Connect with Facebook.
   [Note: I was able to see contact photos with just the first permission of "See Facebook friends and their updates"]

4. Follow the instructions to complete the connection.

I encountered this error on 2 different computers. All but one of my USB devices would work, and the port I plugged it into was fine, because other devices worked with it.

There were many posts about how to fix this issue on the internet, but none of them worked for me. I stumbled upon my own answer based off ideas of uninstalling the USB Controllers (close, but didn’t work for me). Try this simple fix below.

1) Open Device Manager
2) In “Universal Serial Bus controllers” delete all entries that are “USB root hub”. Unplug and re-insert any USB devices (mice or keyboard for example) that stop working, and when they’re active again continue uninstalling any remaining listings.

In one of my previous posts, I wrote how Google and other companies are tracking our locations via Wifi routers. In order to do that, these company must have a database that stores all of the wifi routers it can find, and their locations.

Google FINALLY just introduced a way to remove your router from their system, however their method is ridiculous, and here’s why.

Reason #1: The “removal method” is so bothersome, most users won’t use it.

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