Windows Live Messenger 14.8089.726
With Windows Live Messenger you can chat online instantly in real time with friends, family and colleagues. It’s faster than e-mail, more discreet than a phone call. Chat using a webcam, send text messages to mobile phones, and express yourself instantly online in real time with new, cool emoticons. WLM looks like you! Sign in with your own picture, create your own emoticons, and represent yourself with new, cool backgrounds! Ta da! It’s the next-generation WLM. Along with everything you already love about Messenger-your contact list, emoticons, instant access to your friends-there are brilliant new ways to connect and share your photos (and other stuff). As always, Windows Live Messenger is free to download Messenger and use most of its features.
Webmail Via Firefox
Most people hate email clients and prefer webmail. Well I’m no different. Email clients are slow and they get stuck when you receive huge attachments they are prone to virus attacks and the disadvantage list goes on. Web mail on the other hand is faster easily accessible and has built in virus scanning and you only need to download an attachment when you really need to view it (and not always like an email client).
For those of you who use Firefox and multiple web mail accounts like Live, Gmail and Yahoo, here is a superb Firefox extension which notifies you when you receive the mails. I tried this out and its absolutely fantastic. For all of you web mail fans out there here is the WebMail Notifier Firefox Extension.
Simply add the username and the password of each of your accounts and the webmail notifier takes care of checking you mails in regular intervals (this can be set in the preferences) and notifying you if you receive any new mails.
Get WebMail Notifier (Firefox Add-on)
Auto Login to Live Mail Using IE While IE is Not The Default Browser
Whenever you click the new mail icon of the live messenger, you are sent to the live mail login page in whatever browser is the default in your PC, so if IE is your default browser then no problem, but most people including me prefer Firefox. Well in that case you will have to (unfortunately) manually login to your email account.
But what if you would like to login to your Live mail account using IE (without the manual login hassles, and security issues), while Firefox is still your default browser?
Auto Login to Live Mail Using Firefox
Whenever you click the new mail icon of the live messenger, you are sent to the live mail login page in whatever browser is the default in your PC, so if IE is your default browser then no problem, but most people including me prefer Firefox. Well in that case you will have to (unfortunately) manually login to your email account.
Until now there is no work around for this, but using the following GreaseMonkey script, you can login to your live mail. You have to give your username and password to this script and will automatically log you in. One major drawback is that all your security data is exposed to anyone who visits the live mail site from the specific pc, since this script automatically logs anyone who visits the live mail site.
FYI: There is an alternate more secure method HERE, choose whatever you like.
Before you install this script make sure you have the Firefox add-on GreaseMonkey
Use this script ONLY if you have your own PC with a Password protected account.
Transformers Skins for Windows Live Messenger
Here’s two skins for WLM, from the movie transformers. Both skins require messenger plus and WLM version 9 to work. See below for more details….
Transformers 2 – Optimus 1.0.0
The battle for Earth has ended but the battle for the universe has just begun. After returning to Cybertron, Starscream assumes command of the Decepticons, and has decided to return to Earth with force. The Autobots believing that peace was possible finds out that Megatrons dead body has been stolen from the US Military by Skorpinox and revives him using his own spark. Now Megatron is back seeking revenge and with Starscream and more Decepticon reinforcements on the way, the Autobots with reinforcements of their own, may have more to deal with then meets the eye.
Transformers is one of the most popular series to be adapted into a movie. The second installment is sure to please both fans and new comers to the Transformers franchise.
Messenger Plus! Live 4.81.358
New update of messenger plus released on 22.03.2009. Scroll down for change log
Change Log:
- Directories and files in the log viewer are now sorted chronologically, when possible.
- Added "OverrideImgTransfer" registry setting. If set to true (1), Messenger Plus! forces a JPG file to be sent in a file transfer when a picture is pasted in a conversation. Especially useful if you do not like Photo Sharing in Messenger 2009.
A-Patch 143b2 for Windows Live Messenger 14.0.8064.0206
This A-Patch version is for Windows Live Messenger v14.0.8064.0206 which was released a few days ago. The patch is still in beta and still lacks the full features usually available in A-Patch. The change log states no major changes, only compatibility fixes. Still its the only patch(stable) you can get at the moment.
Windows Live Suite Wave 3 updated: 14.0.8064.0206, Direct links available
The Windows Live Suite has been updated to 14.0.8064.0206 from v14.0.8050.1202. Currently there isn’t any information on changes. As usual you can get it through the Windows Live Installer “web edition” or “full edition” with sizes of 1.09MB and 133.57MB. And if you want to get the standalone exe’s check below. Installing is is pretty much the same as the old suite which was posted earlier.(see installation instructions for WLM suite v14.0.8050.1202). And yes all links are from direct Microsoft links so you need not worry about its integrity.
Released A-Patch (Lite) for WLM 9 Wave 3 (14.0.8050.1202)
Yes, it’s true. The lite version of A-Patch for the new Messenger is here, and highly suggested to download if you’re a Windows Live Messenger enthusiast or simply frequent user. The features of it are are:
- Remove advertisement (in contact list?)
- Remove What’s Hot Section (Apparently it’s the ”What’s New” section)
- Remove Nudge Delay
- Disable Nudge Shake
- Accept more than 3 transfers at a time
- Polygamy (Multiple instances of WLM at once)
- Shorten Status Info in Info Bar
- Remove Advertisement (in chat window?)
- Remove “says” text in the English version
- Remove Billing Info Menus.
So what are you waiting for? Go get it now! (Yes, it works great together with Plus!)
Messenger Plus Live 4.80.356 released
Messenger plus 4.80.356 has been released finally. This version is fully compatible with Windows Live Messenger 2009, and also has a lot of improvements made on it specially the scripts and skins section. Read the official post and feature list below.
After a longer than usual beta period, the new Messenger Plus! is finally ready and can be found in the download section of this site. Of course, the main attraction of version 4.80 is full compatibility with the latest version of Messenger, Windows Live Messenger 2009, and when we say “full compatibility”, we mean just that. You won’t find any ”light” trimmed-down version of your add-on here.
Despite the lack of visual changes in the software, the change log shows that many things were done under the hood. As often, scripts and skins in particular got their good share of improvements. There are now more than 500 of them in the official databases of this site. This means that you could spend the next month customizing Messenger with Plus!, its scripts and its skins and you would still haven’t seen everything. Big thanks to all the developers who keep on working on these improvements to make our daily IM life better.
In addition to the bug fixes and cosmetic improvements, this new Messenger Plus! also allows external developers to modify Messenger’s encoded windows’ files (UIB files) like they did with previous versions of Messenger. More information about that can be found in the skinning documentation. Note to all the developers reading this: Messenger Plus! is not required to be installed on your users’ computers for this feature to be used. The UIB files generated by Messenger Plus! can be read by Messenger just like the original ones which means that you can do the modifications you want on your system, encode the files and distribute the final result with your application.
Source:www.msgplus.net
Changelog [Messenger Plus Live 4.80.356 (31/01/2009)]
