All the noise around Windows 7—and a new build of Messenger Plus! is released. What’s new? The most important changes:
Improved network hooking mechanism. For some people, this will improve how Messenger Plus! catches various network events (used for notifications, the event viewer, …). For other people, this will solve a rare problem where Messenger crashes [...]
Along with the release of Messenger Plus! Live 4.82, there is a new contest, opened to every Messenger Plus! user from all around the world, along with the Fantasia festival. Beginning at Sunday July 12 at 00:01 (GMT -5) the contest will open to everybody. Anyone with Messenger Plus! Live (4.82.368) installed can play [...]
Messenger Plus! Live 4.82, one of the last updates to version 4, has been released. It features complete support for the current Windows 7 Release Candidate as well as some other interesting news, like these:
The settings of your scripts and skins can now be exported from the preferences panel and re-imported back.
The workaround [...]
You can’t import any Messenger Plus! scripts or skins anymore, getting an innocent message box like this one?
You will have to repair the internal shortcuts for *.plsc and *.plsk files.
The solution: Repair your file shortcuts
Open the Control Panel.
Go to the Uninstall section for programs.
Act as if you were going to uninstall Messenger Plus!.
Choose Repair.
Remove [...]
Multimedia designer and star skinner Will Ingles has released the Messenger 2009 version of his popular skin set Phunk’n.
I had to completely recode the entire skin and re-think certain parts of the skin to suit Messenger 2009. While most of the skin retains the layout from the previous version you will notice some differences in [...]
This is a guest post by Patchou, Messenger Plus! creator.
I admit it, at first, it was fun to count the years. But now, like for a kid who has grown older, it seems that Messenger Plus!’s childhood is over as the intervals between its birthdays become less and less significant and noticeable. 8 years now [...]
The other day I was once again thinking of useful add-ons adding functions in Messenger. I went around and played with the “Import/export preferences” option inside the Messenger Plus! preferences. From what I saw, the option is creating a binary *.pld file containing your settings. You would have to export it, copy it via some [...]
A minor update to Messenger Plus! has been released. The update brings one important addition to the application: a new form of sponsor program, courtesy of Ask.com.
Thanks to Ask.com, you now have the option to change your home page and default search options without installing any program on your computer (apart from the uninstaller of [...]
So with all this social networking and with Windows Live Wave 3 focusing on adding social features, here’s a way to have your latest tweets displaying in your Messenger’s personal message, automatically:
Twitter2PSM – the easy way
Download and import my Messenger Plus! script Twitter2PSM. To use the script, having Messenger Plus! installed is a requirement.
The script [...]
Will “Willz” Ingles – ever heard? The name, along with his brand “Design Evolved”, stands for polished Messenger skins. This tag surely applies for Will’s newest skin: Ev0 Cuatro (Ev0 4) is now available for download.
Free Download: Ev0 Cuatro (1.3 MB)
Note: This skin is compatible with Messenger 2009 only.
64 (!) color schemes meet the easiness [...]
