I recently took up writing the majority of my posts using Windows Live Writer when I installed the Windows Live Essentials 2011 software, and so far its been pretty decent and includes some great features, including the ability to easily add watermark text to images before uploading to the blog, and here’s how.

Once you have your image in the Windows Live Writer post, you can no hit the aptly named “Watermark” button under the Format tab which will provide some options for the watermark text.

The watermark options are admittedly limited but are clear and easy to implement with little fuss, just enter the watermark text to appear on the image, the font, size and position the text should appear on the image and you’re set!

The watermark will appear on the image something like this:

Now while this is a handy feature to quickly place a watermark on your images it does have many limitations and a wide variety of improvements I would love to see in the next release of Windows Live Writer.

I’d like to see some more options, such as the colour of the watermark, which as it seems to come out a light grey colour which really doesn’t work for images with light background and can mean the watermark is almost unreadable.

As well as this the positioning could do with some tweaking, and the option to enable you to drag ‘n’ drop the watermark to a set location – and perhaps even the ability to save the co-ordinates of that location as a custom position for future use – would be a great option for making it just that little bit easier and flexible.

Recently i decided to start using Microsoft Outlook 2007 instead of Windows Mail which comes default with Vista, now in Windows Mail i counted a total of 5 simple clicks to turn on read receipts, so every email i sent requests one – you can see a tutorial for how to turn on read receipts for Window Mail here - in Outlook it takes a few more, as shown below.

Firstly click the Tools tab in the menu and select “Options”.

Now on the next option simply select “E-mail Options…” which will open (yet) another menu.

And now on this menu if you select “Tracking Options…”  you will be presented with the final menu.

Now on this menu you can see it gives you a tick box of “Read Receipt” tick this box to enable read receipt requests.

Additionally you can set other settings below, to either Always send a read receipt, never send one or to always ask you if you want to send one each time you send an email.

Hopefully you found this tutorial quick and easy in explaining how to request read reciepts in Outlook.

Don’t forget to comment, bookmark and get in contact, if you have ideas for possible tutorials or if you just want to say hello.

This is a simply little tutorial on how to use or turn on Read Receipts in Windows Mail.

First go the tools menu and select “Options…”.

On the window above select the receipts tab, now you are presented with multiple settings for read receipts.

Tick the box for “Request a read reciept for all sent messages” and click OK.

And that’s it! Simple and easy, additionally of course you can choose if you wish to be notified every time about to request a read receipt or if they should be sent automatically.

Hopefully you found this tutorial helpful, so please comment!

Okay, i love my music, cant live without it… now more i work at the radio station more you can apprieciate a good flow with music…

Anyway was playing with my Windows Media Player settings and decided to turn on the Crossfading so now it should smoothly fade into the next song (set to 2 Seconds) but no, my computer which i point out isnt that bad compared to the average cant do it.

Its like theres a drunk presenter… the sound kind of wobbles, and dips for the cross over and its ALL WRONG… Just doing my head in. Just turned it off…

Also starting doing a bit more to the book

Dan