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How to bypass Live Messenger (WLM/MSN) 2011 Update

20 June 2012 3:28 PM

As you may or may not know Microsoft yesterday started forcing upgrades to Windows Live Messenger (sometimes abbreviated WLM/MSN) 2011 on Windows 7. Unfortunately the 2011 (It’s 2012 where’s version 2012?) version drops several key features, adds several annoying features, and is not that impressive of an upgrade. Certainly many just prefer to use Live Messenger 2009 and now you can!

When you try and sign in to Messenger 2009 you will see one of theses;

“A newer version is available. You must install the newer version in order to continue. Would you like to do this now?”

or “A newer version has been downloaded and is available. You must install this newer version in order to continue. Would you like to do this now?”

Annoying right? Yes I think so we’ve two ways you can bypass this (I personally recommend option two)

Option 1
To bypass the forced upgrade for Windows Live Messenger 2009, you can download My Messenger Reviver utility however this isn’t recommend, unless they somehow patch option two.

Option 2
1 – Right Click on your “Windows Live Messenger” Icon (either from your desktop or start menu)
2 – Click/Select “Properties” you will see many such as tabs, Shortcut, Compatibility, General, Security, Details and Previous Version.
3 – Click on Compatibility Tab in This Tab you will see “Compatibility Mode”
4 – Check in front of Run this Program in compatibility mode for:

If you use Windows XP, Select Windows NT or 2000 (MSN+ can’t run on this mode) if you use Windows Vista or 7, Select Windows Server 2003(SP1) – MSN+ can run on this mode.

5 – Apply and OK this setting
6 – Restart Messenger (Task Manager) and end msnmesgr.exe
7 – You’re done – Enjoy!

Tried and tested on Windows Vista, 7 & Windows 8 only – please let us know in the comments below if it works on your OS, do you like Messenger 2011 or will you be using this to avoid it?

Note; We take no responsibility in this software or the guide (option o2), The software (“program”) wasn’t developed by us please use at your own risk, Thanks!

UPDATE 21 – 06 – 12
We have noticed doing option 2 in Windows 7 it will no longer show two windows in your task-bar and when you minimize WLM 2009 it will now go to ‘notifications’ area not taskbar it hasn’t closed click the “^” arrow in notifications.

Touch 3.1 – Introducing Audio & Video

2 April 2012 10:25 PM

Touch (formerly PingChat!) Released version 3.1 update with sound and video sharing and also includes important performance and stability improvements. Update is now available today on iOS, Android and BlackBerry.

What is Touch?
Touch formerly PingChat is a mobile app that allows you to be intimately connected with those most important to you.

Jon (Touch Team), says:
“We believe that audio and video sharing will help bring your conversations to a whole new level. Now, you can easily and privately express yourself through text, emoticons, pictures, videos, sounds and voice clips. For those of you that have been following us since the days of PingChat! we know you will be excited by this announcement. When we initially introduced Touch, we made a decision to take our time to rebuild video and audio sharing up to the quality standard we strive for. We took that time and built an experience that is truly cross-platform and mobile. We appreciate and thank you for your patience as we worked to reintroduce these features.”

The new release provides users with even more ways to connect and communicate with their closest relationships, through video and audio messages and voice notes. Touch 3.1 can be downloaded at touch.com. Touch supports iOS devices (OS version 3.0+), as well as Android (1.6+) and Blackberry (5.0+).

However we did notice “Performing Migration” does take some time after opening the app.

Be sure to download the update directly from your app store, or by navigating to http://www.touch.com/download.

Yuna Software introduces Messenger Plus! for Skype

1 February 2012 12:14 AM

Yuna Software, the company that develops, designs and markets Messenger Plus!, today announced the addition of a new product to its portfolio: Messenger Plus! for Skype. Messenger Plus! is the most popular and respected extension for Windows Live™ Messenger 2009 and 2011 and has more than ten years experience in the instant messaging arena.

Messenger Plus! for Skype, the Social Extension
“We’re releasing the first version of this exciting product after a lot of hard team work“, says Jean-Francois Gregoire, CEO Kimahri Software. “You can now send more than 35 winks (flash video animation), record original Skype video and audio calls for free and easily access your Skype chat logs with the Messenger Plus! log viewer. All of this can be done through our slick, dockable, toolbar window“.

Messenger Plus! has leveraged their expertise in chat logging – the ability to record, view, store, search and retrieve conversation history – to develop an advanced video and audio capture engine for recording Skype calls.

Alex Shamash, Creative Manager at Yuna Software, adds that this release brings the social experience to a new sphere. “Messenger Plus! offers an enhanced and more enjoyable instant messaging experience to Skype users. For some, this will be their first taste of Messenger Plus!” says Shamash. “When the video recording becomes popular on Skype, we hope to bring it over to Windows Live Messenger. Winks are already planned for inclusion in one of the upcoming versions of Messenger Plus! for [Windows Live] Messenger. The goal is to have one single brand that extends across multiple social networks.”

Messenger Plus! for Skype download (in English):
http://www.msgplus.net/Downloads

Detailed features for Messenger Plus! for Skype:
• Record your video and audio call recording of unlimited duration.
• Choose from 3 different levels of video quality
• See a live preview of the video call recording.
• Send flash video animation (Winks) to your friends, family and co-workers. Choose from more than 35 available cool animations.
• Preview the Winks before sending them to your contacts
• Consult your chat log with the external Messenger Plus! for Skype Log Viewer
• Search all your chat logs from one convenient interface
• Categorize your chat logs by dates, by sessions or by contacts
• Preview and print any chat log conversation
• Automatically export chat logs in html format so you can easily share them
• Conveniently dock your Messenger Plus! for Skype toolbar to the Skype contact window and display it as semi-transparent in full screen mode

Google+ Social Networking Now Open to Everyone, New Features Added

20 September 2011 11:37 PM

Google opened the gates to its social network, Google+, to everyone today and rolled out more than a dozen new features to the service, many of them aimed at mobile phone users.

For 12 weeks, Google+ has been in “field trials,” Google Senior Vice President of Engineering Vic Gundotra explained in a company blog. “We’re nowhere near done,” he wrote, “but with the improvements we’ve made so far we’re ready to move from field trial to beta.” Now anyone can go to the Google+ site and sign up for the service.

With the new "Hangouts on Air" feature, you can open up a hangout session and as many as nine people can join in.

In addition to open enrollment, Google introduced a number of improvements to the hangout feature of Google+. Hangouts allow people to chat face to face through video. With today’s improvements, users of Android phones will be able to use hangouts on their mobiles.

Google is also expanding the online version of hangouts. Now, through “Hangouts on Air,” you can open up a hangout session and as many as nine people can join it. An unlimited number can watch the hangout session.

Hangouts is getting some extras, too. They allow you to share what’s on your computer in a hangout, scribble with friends on an online sketchpad, share Google docs, and create or join public hangouts about a topic, like the collapse of your favorite sports team or raising alpacas.

Searching, Now Made Easy
A welcome improvement for many Google+ users will be the introduction of a search feature into the social network. Now you can type words into a Google+ search box and find content you’re interested in and as well as people to connect to.

Some mobile phone improvements were announced today, too. Better text messaging (SMS) support is now available in the United States and India. Now, from your cell phone, you can post to Google+, receive notifications, and respond to group messages through SMS.

You can also +mention people in posts or comments viewed on your phone. When you do that, the person will be notified that they’re mentioned in the post or comment. And you can +1 comments, too, but only from iOS devices.

You can take care of more housekeeping of Google+ from your phone now, too. You can edit your profile photo and customize the notifications you receive on your cell, since you may not want your phone flooded with notifications while you’re on the go.

If you have an Android phone, you can now move the Google+ app to a SD card to free up the mobile’s internal storage.

Google+ Vocabulary Changes
..read more at www.pcworld.com

Facebook Wanted to Buy Instagram, Will Release Photo Filters Instead

25 August 2011 3:36 AM

Following a failed attempt to acquire Instagram, Facebook will roll out up to a dozen photo filters in a mobile application release, according to a report from The New York Times Bits Blog.

Several Instagram-like photo filters are ready for release, two unnamed Facebook engineers cited in the report say, but the release date is unknown at this time.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing engineers and artists “to create more filters before releasing the new product” Bits reports. “Facebook will also try to introduce new styles of filters with the hopes of drawing users away from other photo apps.”

This isn’t the first we’ve heard of Facebook photo filters. TechCrunch reported in June that Facebook was working on a spin-off photo-sharing application for iPhone. Screenshots obtained by the blog indicated the app would have “location elements, likes and comments, multi-picture mode, filters, multi-user albums, face-tagging, and more…”

more to come… follow this post for updates (Mashable)