Subscribe to our RSS feed to get the latest news posts from Messenger Stuff.It's not that often that we have an opportunity to promote different IM programs, but I'm proud to announce that Digsby has finally reached public beta phase.
What is Digsby? Disgsby is an instant messaging, email, and social networking client all in one. It's sort of like Trillian, but far better in my honest opinion. Digsby allows you to add AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts into one major contact list. Not only that, Digsby allows you to keep up with your MySpace or Facebook accounts by alerting you when you receive new messages, comments, etc etc. It gets better, believe me. Here's the complete feature list:
Instant Messaging
One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like 'giantsfan123'.
If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
Log conversation history and find the information you need our search-enabled log viewer.
And so much more.
Email
Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
The email InfoBox gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
Perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report Spam" right from the email InfoBox.
Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.
Social Networking
Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook or MySpace account (other network support coming soon).
Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
The social network InfoBox gives you a real time NewsFeed of what your friends are up to. Everything from new photos, to status updates, to upcoming birthdays is just a click away.
Personalize
Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
Change the way your conversations look with themes – everything from simple AIM-style windows to 3D conversation bubbles.
Complete control over the layout of buddies on the buddy list. Change everything from buddy icon size to whether or not to show a snippet of their away message.
Sort your buddy list how ever you want! You can organize buddies manually, by status, by service, by name or by log size to place those you communicate with most at the top. You can even choose a secondary sorting method.
Customizable notification system lets you choose what events you want to be alerted about and how.
Other
Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.
You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager.
Digsby entered private beta phase about 6 weeks ago, and since then has released 15 builds (Which had 35 major changes), 53 added enhancements, and 109 bug fixes. I can honestly say that the team behind Digsby is one of the best product teams I've seen. The only problem that user's are reporting is that Digsby uses a lot of RAM, but if you think about it, if you're using all of this super-client's features, it's going to take some RAM to keep it runnin'.
We're going to keep you posted on the development of this project!
Link: Digsby's Home Page
View: Screenshots
View: Digsby's Developer Blog
Download: The latest public release of Digsby
What is Digsby? Disgsby is an instant messaging, email, and social networking client all in one. It's sort of like Trillian, but far better in my honest opinion. Digsby allows you to add AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts into one major contact list. Not only that, Digsby allows you to keep up with your MySpace or Facebook accounts by alerting you when you receive new messages, comments, etc etc. It gets better, believe me. Here's the complete feature list:
Instant Messaging
One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like 'giantsfan123'.
If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
Changing your status has never been easier. just one click right on the buddy list!
Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
Log conversation history and find the information you need our search-enabled log viewer.
And so much more.
Manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail, IMAP, and POP accounts right from digsby.
Get popup notifications when new email arrives. Clicking a popup takes you right to the message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
The email InfoBox gives you a snapshot of your unread messages with just one click
Perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report Spam" right from the email InfoBox.
Send emails to your friends right from the IM window. The email is sent directly from any account digsby is tracking for you.
Social Networking
Stay up to date with everything happening on your Facebook or MySpace account (other network support coming soon).
Receive alerts of events such as new friend requests, messages, group invites, etc.
The social network InfoBox gives you a real time NewsFeed of what your friends are up to. Everything from new photos, to status updates, to upcoming birthdays is just a click away.
Personalize
Customize digsby with application skins to give it a personal look and feel.
Change the way your conversations look with themes – everything from simple AIM-style windows to 3D conversation bubbles.
Complete control over the layout of buddies on the buddy list. Change everything from buddy icon size to whether or not to show a snippet of their away message.
Sort your buddy list how ever you want! You can organize buddies manually, by status, by service, by name or by log size to place those you communicate with most at the top. You can even choose a secondary sorting method.
Customizable notification system lets you choose what events you want to be alerted about and how.
Other
Digsby offers complete synchronization between computers and installations. Everything from the skin you chose to your pre-defined status messages follows you from place to place.
You can place a widget on your blog, website, or social network profile so you can chat with visitors right from digsby.
Manage multiple simultaneous file transfers from one simple transfer manager.
Digsby entered private beta phase about 6 weeks ago, and since then has released 15 builds (Which had 35 major changes), 53 added enhancements, and 109 bug fixes. I can honestly say that the team behind Digsby is one of the best product teams I've seen. The only problem that user's are reporting is that Digsby uses a lot of RAM, but if you think about it, if you're using all of this super-client's features, it's going to take some RAM to keep it runnin'.
We're going to keep you posted on the development of this project!
Link: Digsby's Home Page
View: Screenshots
View: Digsby's Developer Blog
Download: The latest public release of Digsby
There have been several new advertisements, mostly in North America, to promote MSN (not Windows Live, apparently there is a difference: Windows Live being mainly services and MSN mostly content). These are, to say the least, terrible. Yes they are imaginative, but they just make no sense!
Again it's up to good old LiveSide to sum up the story:
Again it's up to good old LiveSide to sum up the story:
It appeared this week in south Seattle, and I've been hearing some radio ads on local stations, too. Apparently this is part of a new campaign by The Wunderman Network, called No One Wants To Look Dumb, which as far as I can tell fails its own test, miserably. Aside from the 'ad campaign from your parents generation' look and feel to the whole thing, there's the videos.
After the highly anticipated release of Messenger Plus! Live 4.50, Patchou has released an update labeled v4.60. This update mainly focuses on new features for developers and skinners, along with various bug fixes. A statement from Patchou:
View: Patchou's official announcement
View: Messenger Plus! Live 4.60 Changelog
Download: Messenger Plus! Live 4.60
A new version of Messenger Plus! is now available for download! Many things have been updated in version 4.60 but if you’re not a script or a skin developer, chances are you won’t see much difference compared with the last update. Still, among the improvements you’ll notice that WMA sound files can be selected for Custom Notifications, all the extra Plus! features now work fine in Mobile Device chat windows, and notification popups are now shown in a better way.
If you're a script developer, you’ll find many new functions of interest in this release, like UploadFileFTP, GetElementPos, ExtractFromZIP and support for synchronous callbacks with GetCallbackPtr. Skin developers will enjoy even more improvements, like DateRange restrictions to make your skin change depending on the current date, advanced new features for Color resources to create customized colorization values and gradient colors, the addition of Font elements to distribute and use special fonts in your skin, the possibility to create a separate About Box window, Environment tags for PlusSkin elements to create conditions based on things like the current version of Messenger, and more! Just check the Change Log and download the latest version of the documentations to see it all...read more
If you're a script developer, you’ll find many new functions of interest in this release, like UploadFileFTP, GetElementPos, ExtractFromZIP and support for synchronous callbacks with GetCallbackPtr. Skin developers will enjoy even more improvements, like DateRange restrictions to make your skin change depending on the current date, advanced new features for Color resources to create customized colorization values and gradient colors, the addition of Font elements to distribute and use special fonts in your skin, the possibility to create a separate About Box window, Environment tags for PlusSkin elements to create conditions based on things like the current version of Messenger, and more! Just check the Change Log and download the latest version of the documentations to see it all...read more
View: Patchou's official announcement
View: Messenger Plus! Live 4.60 Changelog
Download: Messenger Plus! Live 4.60
Thanks to LiveSide for this find, I believe they sum up the situation very well:
In my opinion Spaces was only popular because of its integration within Messenger. To put things bluntly, all its features have been mimicked by others services who have made them better and provided a key relationship between social networking with friends. For me, Windows Live Spaces is just not practical.
According to some new numbers included in an email from Nielsen Online today, Windows Live Spaces, never a big player in the US market for social networking tools, lost significant ground over the past year.
Nielsen Online provides February's top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for your reference. They are ranked by unique audience and rounded to the nearest thousand, so MySpace.com had 55.4 million unique visitors in February 2008, growing 4 percent over February 2007. Please note that these are custom lists compiled by the Nielsen Online PR team with the help of our media analysts. While these lists are not meant to be exhaustive, they provide a good idea of the significant players in each space.
Nielsen Online provides February's top U.S. social networking sites and blogs for your reference. They are ranked by unique audience and rounded to the nearest thousand, so MySpace.com had 55.4 million unique visitors in February 2008, growing 4 percent over February 2007. Please note that these are custom lists compiled by the Nielsen Online PR team with the help of our media analysts. While these lists are not meant to be exhaustive, they provide a good idea of the significant players in each space.
In my opinion Spaces was only popular because of its integration within Messenger. To put things bluntly, all its features have been mimicked by others services who have made them better and provided a key relationship between social networking with friends. For me, Windows Live Spaces is just not practical.
Messenger Plus! 4.50 brought about new skinning technology for Messenger. Now it was possible to soft-patch resources, create skin options and even manipulate the basic window designs of Messenger. This can be seen in a simple form with Beaver and Steve, created by Nile. However, Patchou has big ambitions to expand this feature:
All this news sounds very interesting, especially the upcoming skinning contest. Stay tuned for more information when it's available.
>> View Patchou's post
>> View a screenshot of the new skins
I'm happy to announce that sometime this year, a big skinning contest will be organised, benefiting both developers (prizes) and users (new, better skins). Details will be announced when appropriate but as of now, something new and cool has already been put in motion in the world of skins: Will Ingles, the creator of popular skins such as Ev0, as agreed to dedicate some of his time to the creation of new skins inspired by movies and music groups.
Your Messenger experience will never be the same, that's guaranteed, and you'll probably never want to go back to the original interface once you've tried a couple of skins either. Also, if you enjoy switching from one look to the other regularly, or, if you just don't want to miss the release of a skin related to a movie that you've been waiting for, sign up to Messenger Plus! Skins Alerts to get instant notifications.
All this news sounds very interesting, especially the upcoming skinning contest. Stay tuned for more information when it's available.
>> View Patchou's post
>> View a screenshot of the new skins
