If you are a current MSN Messenger user then you will love Messenger Plus. It adds a ton of functionality to MSN Messenger, and many features that you would have never thought you needed. Unfortunately, the most recent release is still not compatible with Windows Live Messenger but a compatible version should be released in May.

The only major changes this time is in the sponsor agreement. This software

Yahoo is one of the leading search engines and to compete with their rivals they now offer an 'Instant' Search. It is interesting to try but is nothing you would want to use as your main search engine. It will only show one result as you are typing in your search which doesn't make it very useful. If we are comparing the search-as-you-type

PortableApps.com is popular for their wide range of portable applications that they have available, such as Portable Open Office and Portable FileZilla. Now they have released a portable version of GIMP. If you aren't familiar with GIMP then this is the easiest way to test it. It has many similar attributes to Adobe Photoshop although it does lack the simplistic interface that I am accustomed to

Lifehacker has brought another useful guide and this time it is on how to build your own Digital Video Recorder (DVR). While Tivo and ReplayTV are popular solutions and already come built for you, the do not offer the customization that building your own would provide.

Of course, they make recommendations for the hardware and software that you will need. For the hardware they recommend the Hauppauge

Everyone knows that Google has such an extensive range of features that often times it is hard to take advantage of them all. That is where Simply Google comes into play, it allows users to use all of the different Google searches from one convenient page. It is very well laid out and also has a listing of all the Google Blogs