Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Toolbar’

Clear your search history in Windows Live Toolbar

Windows Live September 6th, 2009

Windows Live Toolbar remembers what you have searched for lately. Here is how you can empty this search history:

Start Internet Explorer.
In the toolbar’s search box, enter the first letter of a phrase you have search for previously. Then click on “Clear previous searches”.

Notes:

To repeat a search, click a previous search in the search [...]

The 256 colors experiment, Part I

Messenger July 20th, 2009

Nowadays, displays offer a rich variety of colors, mostly 32-bit, allowing a multitude of 4,294,967,296 different colors—more than 4 billion! Graphic artists tend to use more and more of these possibilities. Messenger is one of them, especially in version 2009, also known as Wave 3. But if you have a display that [...]

Messenger Plus! Live 2009 Contest

Messenger Plus! July 11th, 2009

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 supports Windows 7

Messenger Plus! July 1st, 2009

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 [...]

Flock 2.5, with better Twitter and Facebook Chat support

Browsers June 17th, 2009

Flock, the “social Web browser”, has been updated to 2.5 (download Flock 2.5). This version adds support for Facebook Chat right in the browser: you will see the chat toolbar on any website you are currently browsing, as long as you are signed in at Facebook in the background. The chat bar design [...]

Phunk’n 2: The popular skin, reinvented

Messenger Plus! May 13th, 2009

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 [...]

Plus!Patch 2.0.1 Beta for Messenger 2009: the first Patch Skin

Messenger Plus! January 11th, 2009

None of the existing skins is currently compatible with this Messenger version. However for your convenience I have updated an existing Patch Skin (Skin Patch?) named “Plus!Patch”. It features

Removing sign-in window links
Removing advertisements in chat window and contact list
Removing e-mail- and other buttons in the contact list toolbar
Removing the yellow information bar in both contact [...]

Live Essentials RCs: In case you wonder

Windows Live December 14th, 2008

Just in case you wonder about the announced release of the Windows Live Essentials (that is, the programs for your PC, like Live Mail, Live Messenger, Live Photo Gallery, Live Movie Maker, Live Writer, Live Toolbar and Live Family Safety) – they had been planned to ship Friday noon Redmond time (late evening in Europe). [...]

Live Wave 3: the next round will start soon (UPDATE)

Windows Live November 25th, 2008

As various hints indicate, the phase 3 of the Windows Live Services Wave 3 update will start between December 5th and December 12th, 2008.
Update: Numerous sources confirm that the Web Services (not the Clients) will roll out from December 1st until December 8th, 2008.
What does this Wave 3 phase 3 feature?
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Featuring: Sopair skin for Messenger 2009 Beta and Plus! 4.79 Beta

Messenger Plus! November 11th, 2008

Many of the people using the current public Windows Live Messenger 2009 Beta wonder about the changed (or modernized?) interface. Things look different, are at a different place, etc. Of course, a product used by millions of users should make progress every now and then, also in the User Interface. However, some liked the [...]