The Windows Live team has announced the end of life for MSN Web Messenger. Since Windows Live now supports instant messaging integrated into both Hotmail and People, there is no need to maintain 2 web messengers at the same time. Additionally, site owners are free to get their own web
Category: Windows Live
Announced in 2005, Windows Live offers you a broad set of tools to communicate with your friends: Windows Live Essentials applications, web services, and mobile services.
Opera Unite vs. Windows Live, or: How will the client-server future look like?
Opera Unite, released as Beta on 16 June, can transform any computer into a web server. How might the underlying idea this affect our daily web usage? Once upon a time, web servers were invented. These used to serve first static, then dynamic content to clients, to us. The basis
How-to get your webcam working again in Messenger
You have a webcam, connect it to your computer, but Messenger doesn’t recognize it? There are several tips you might try out. Restart Messenger. The camera might appear now. Doesn’t work? Restart Windows, having the webcam plugged in (if external). Is the cable connected correctly? Look in “My Computer” (Windows
How-to: Repair Messenger Plus! scripts and skins importing
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
Reason for Error 810003c1
Are you getting Error 810003c1: “We were unable to sign you in to the .NET Messenger Service” when trying to sign in to Messenger recently? Microsoft has cut off several countries from using Messenger, countries that are embargoed by the United States. These are: Cuba, Syria, Iran, Sudan and North
Phunk’n 2: The popular skin, reinvented
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
How-to: Save your Chat Logs in Live Mesh
When I recently tried to save my chat logs somewhere in the Cloud, I failed using SkyDrive; I simply couldn’t mount it as virtual drive in Windows. (Yes, I know about Gladinet; it’s crashing often and slow.) Thus, I had a try with Live Mesh. After some initial problems with
Updated: Windows Live Video Messages
Many people don’t know about it: Windows Live Video Messages, part of the Web services. Introduced in September 2008, It combines digital video with e-mail into a service that allows all web cam users to create, send, and receive video messages to anyone in their Windows Live Contacts list, even
Update to the Web Toolkit
Keiji Kanazawa just announced an update to the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. He states: With this update, The Messenger Web Toolkit UI Controls should work better in IE6 We have changed the sign in text from “IM Here” to “Sign In” to make it more clear what it does
Windows Live Profile Updates: Facebook, Last.fm and more!
Since yesterday, the list of Web Activity providers available for integration into your Windows Live Profile has been extended. Major providers have been added, some of them had been announced back in January. Here are some of the most interesting updated bits: Facebook is now a Web Activity provider (Add