Microsoft/Mac Monday

In the past we've mentioned Messenger Plus a few times. It's an add-on for Windows Live Messenger (WLM) that adds all kinds of features and extras. There are millions of people who use WLM yet don't know that Messenger Plus exists, so we thought we'd take some time today to explain the benefits of the add-on and all that it offers.

Before we dive-in, we wanted to point

This morning, one of the contacts on my Windows Live Messenger list appeared to be on-line and sent me a link that looked like this: [myusername].historyshotz.com. What caught my eye was the fact that my actual username was in the link, and then upon clicking the link, Firefox let me know that the site was reported as web forgery. Knowing the link came from a friend, I was curious, so I started to look into

Microsoft/Mac Monday

Remember ICQ, some of you may still use it today but back in the mid 90's it was one of the first instant messengers to really take-off and become popular. Shortly after, AOL's Instant Messenger became a hit followed by others developed by Microsoft and Yahoo. Eventually we saw clients introduced that supported multiple protocols like Pidgin, Trillian, Digsby, and Adium.

Over the years we've seen messengers develop from

In what turned out to be a simple coincidence, over the weekend, Windows Live Messenger users reported that they were unable to send YouTube links to their contacts. The screenshot below from I Started Something shows that when a user tried to send any type of link with "youtube.com" in it, the message failed to be delivered. We say this in the past tense because it has been fixed, but as you can imagine,

The last time we mentioned Microsoft's I'm initiative was just a couple of weeks ago when they announced that they had already raised $1.3 million dollars in a year. While impressive, reader "Iain Purdie" noted that this initiative is only available in the United States. Recently others have said that it's a little disappointing that Microsoft hasn't expanded it into a global effort. We believe eventually they will expand it so that it's available

In March 2007 Microsoft decided to give users even more of an incentive for using their Windows Live Messenger service. They started an initiative called I'm where part of the ad revenue would be shared from one of ten charities that you could pick from. Since the project's inception chatty Windows Live users like yourself have managed to raise over $1.4 million, and the first

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Many people waited in anticipation for the new version of Messenger Plus 4.5 which has been six months in the making. It's been a hot topic lately simply because everybody knew it was coming, and they knew it was coming with a completed skinning engine.  It's finally available for download, and now the more than 22 million people who already use it