Talking about Translating using Windows Live Messenger

After adding the translator bot, mtbot@hotmail.com, to your Messenger contacts list, you can translate between many different languages or chat with your friends using live translation. Follow the link below to see how:  Quote Translating using Windows Live Messenger

Windows Live Messenger add-ons – visit the Live Gallery

Via Bink and The Gallery King: You now can easily get all the emoticons, display pictures, winks, backgrounds, activities and agents you want from the Live Messenger section of Windows Live Gallery at http://gallery.live.com/messenger. Agents? Yes, help is at hand. Need a secretary? Get your own personal secretary to help you organise, do some calculations, keep [...]

Windows Live Messenger 8.5 trial version – not yet ready for Australia

A trial version, version 8.5, of Live Messenger is now available for download – but not yet for Australia. For some screenshots of what’s in store, see Inside Live Messenger, the Messenger team’s blog space. A couple of things to note: Live Messenger 8.5 on Windows XP requires that XP has been updated to Service Pack 2 Mess [...]

Emoticons list for Live Messenger

Via Inside Windows Live Messenger. Here’s a handy list of emoticons and the shortcut keystrokes for Live Messenger. Right-click the pic above and use "Save As…" to save it then print it for handy reference. The size is about 390 x 940 pixels. If you don’t get a nice, clear pic from the one above, [...]

Messenger how-to’s and free stuff

The Live Messenger team have posted Messenger Tips & free stuff! which you can find at the new Windows Live Messenger site (http://imagine-windowslive.com/Messenger/Post/). The site is taken up with illustrated step-by-step instructions on the basics of using Live Messenger through to the more fun stuff such as sharing activities or playing games and using Messenger to [...]

I’m making a difference project with Live Messenger

From the I’m Home site: i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. [...]

Messenger 8.1 ready

Yesterday (Australian time) Live Messenger 8.1 became available for download. The latest version has lots of new and improved features, including: roaming identity (your display picture now goes with you whenever you move from one computer to another) a better contact card SMS phone book (click the mobile phone icon on the main screen) send [...]

Windows Live Messenger 8.1 available on Jan 25?

Rumour has it that the update to version 8.1 of Live Messenger will be available for download on January 25 (which probably means Fri for Aussies).   PC-to-phone calls will be enabled in this version for most countries and there’ll be two free phone calls to anywhere in the world as part of the new [...]

Watch a Soapbox video on Messenger with one of your contacts

Via the Soapbox on MSN Video team Space, Inside Live Messenger, Liveside. To watch a video with a friend on your Messenger contact list: sign into Soapbox on MSN Video and begin watching a video click on the Share tab below the video player on the righ-hand side of the screen look for im this [...]

Chat with Santa

Add northpole@live.com to your contact list on Windows Live Messenger, and from the morning of Christmas Eve, you can find out where he is on his journey around the world and ask him when he’ll be visiting your house. Keep up to date with what Santa is doing by visiting his Space at http://santaonspaces.spaces.live.com. Technorati [...]