How to show off your summer photos to the whole family

No doubt as soon as you got back from your holidays you were impatient to import your holiday pics into Windows Photo Gallery. However, once you’ve played around with them, it’s a real shame to leave them just sitting on your PC. Using Windows Vista we’ve found 10 ways you can share your snaps, and make sure those summer memories never die.

1. Account sharing

When you import your photos to Windows Photo Gallery members of your family with different user accounts won’t be able to see them as they’ll be saved on your profile. Let them join in by sharing the folders.

2. Shared folders

To share your snaps with people who don’t use your computer, try Windows Live Messenger. In a conversation look at the toolbar, click Share Files > Open your sharing folder and drag and drop any files or folders you wish. These will transfer to your friend’s PC in seconds.
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Windows Live Spaces Explodes

Don’t rule Windows Live Spaces out of the race for eyeballs on the social networking world just yet. Over the past year, the Redmond company’s online social hotspot delivered a consistent evolution in terms of the audience it managed to attract. According to Marketing Charts, and based on statistics compiled by Nielsen Online, Microsoft has gathered quite a crowd to Windows Live Spaces. At this point in time, Windows Live Spaces occupies the fourth position in the top 10 social networking sites for the U.S. market.

Nielsen Online revealed that Windows Live Spaces grew 8% in the past year. Between November 2006 and November 2007, the number of Windows Live Spaces unique users exploded from 8.8 million to 9.5 million, per month. But, in terms of the actual growth rate, Live Spaces outperformed the top social networking destination in the U.S. – MySpace.com. Read more