11/01/2006 - 12/01/2006

Cerulean Studios has released a preview of their latest creation: Trillian Astra. It has many performance improvements and a lot of new features that you must check out :

Performance

* Loads skins up to 100% faster than Trillian 3.1
* Uses 5 MB less memory
* Faster redraw times (important if you have lots of contacts)

Interoperability

* A dedicated Google Talk plug-in, separating it from the Jabber plug-in for improved Google Talk support
* MySpace IM connectivity -- by popular request
* Enhanced file transfers, including easier multiple file transfers
* More complete status message compatibility

New Astra Features

* 'Portable' contact list. Your contacts are downloaded from the server, meaning you can run Trillian Astra from any computer and your contact list will always be complete and up-to-date
* One account, multiple networks. Hand-out a unified Trillian Astra account and people can contact you on any of the networks you use

Web

* Like MeeboMe, Trillian Astra provides a web client for 'no-download' access to IM.
* Like Meetro, Trillian Astra allows you to share your geo-location information -- fun for mobile users looking to find friends nearby.
* Online status indicator. Share your status with anyone on your blog, at MySpace or in a forum signature, regardless of which IM network(s) you use.
* Widgets - share your Flickr photostream, or your current playing song, or get the weather for your contacts.

Message Windows

* Improved image sharing
* "Buzz" compatibility (for those of you who live that feature on WLM and Yahoo! Messenger).
* Handwriting support for Tablet PCs
* Local time zone info for your contacts

Contact List

* New ways of viewing your contacts
* Dynamic list height -- your contact list can be configured to automatically expand to show all visible contacts

Trillian Astra is still not available for download. Visit preview page for more info and screenshots.

Via Messenger.es , BigBlueBall

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Remove Ads, Buttons, Winks, Packs from (MSN) Windows Live Messenger - A-Patch

A-Patch boasts a tremendous amount of customization to better your Windows Live/MSN Messenger experience, with even more planned! Remove advertisements and buttons you don't need, cut down on wasted space, sign-in to more than one e-mail address at the same time and even more features just waiting for you to take advantage of!

Features:

: Contact List

Remove Windows Live Logo
Remove "Messenger" Title
Remove Display Picture Container
Remove Personal Message Bar
Remove E-mail Button
Remove Sharing Folders Button
Remove My MSN Space Button
Remove Windows Live Today Button
Remove Make a Phone Call Button
Remove Yellow Information Bar
Change Display Picture Link
Remove Contacts Personal Message
Remove Toast Display Picture
Remove Gleam Notification
Remove Advertisement
Add Always On Top Button
Remove Search Bar
Remove Display Picture in Sign-In Window
Remove Bottom Links in Sign-In Window
Remove Windows Live ID Branding
Disable MSN Spaces Contact Card Integration
Remove Color Button
Disable Song Links
Remove Emoticons from Nicknames
Remove Contact Manager Bar
-- Move Contact Manager Bar to the Bottom
-- Remove Extra Padding from the Contact Manager Bar
-- Remove "Add a Contact" Button from the Contact Manager Bar
-- Remove "Manage your Contacts" Button from the Contact Manager Bar
-- Remove Contact Search Field from the Contact Manager Bar

:: Instant Message

Remove Windows Live Logo
Remove Invite Button
Remove Send Files Button
Remove Web Cam Button
Remove Call Button
Remove Activities Button
Remove Games Button
Remove Block Button
Remove Color Button
Remove Search Button
Remove My Display Picture Container
Remove Font Button
Remove Emoticons Button
Remove Voice Clip Button
Remove Backgrounds Button
Remove Winks Button
Remove Packs Button
Remove Nudge Button
Remove What's Hot Section
Remove Formatting Toolbar Separator
Change Ink Tabs to Text
Remove Advertisement
Add Custom Games
Remove Contact's Personal Messange and E-mail (To: Bar)
Remove Web Cam Icon from Avatar/DP Containers
Remove Nudge Delay
Disable Nudge Shake
Remove Send Button
Add Send Button to Handwriting Tab
Remove Status Information Bar Remove "Get a Webcam" Link Add Always On Top Button
Remove User Is Writing Message
Remove Convert Tab
Remove "says" Text

:: Miscellaneous

Polygamy (Multi-MSN)
Show Idle Status
Shorten Status Info in Info Bar
Install WinAMP Plug-in for Now Playing feature (thanks to Shane at www.myplugins.info)
Remove Advertisement in Sharing Folders Window
Remove Billing Info Menus

A-Patch Screenshots:

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Manage Your Conversation History - AIM Log Manager

AIM Log Manager allows you review a database of your AIM conversations. You can keep your entire IM history at your fingertips, strongly organized and searchable. AIM Log Manager enables you keep an IM database of employees of your business and use it to keep productivity up and comply with legal record-keeping requirements.

These are some basic features:

* Record all your IM conversations, chatrooms, buddy events, away messages and files/images automatically.
* Logged IMs go into a single conversation database file for easy backup and sending.
* The log file is automatically compressed, reducing its size by 70%!
* Import existing logs from other logging programs easily; supports DeadAIM, MyIM, AIM+, auto-colorizing plain text conversations, and more.
* Send automatic e-mail transcripts of conversations.
* Be discreet with Stealth Mode, or password-protect your log file.
* Browse, sort, categorize, edit, cut, copy and paste convos with ease!
* Record or import Buddy Events (sign on/off, away/back) and browse them effortlessly by screenname, by day, etc.
* Automatically record all files and images sent through directly connected IMs, (and automatically convert bitmap images to JPEGs before sending through IM!).
* Organize and manipulate your conversations easily by cutting and pasting them between screennames and files, editing their timestamps and contents.
* Navigate through your history quickly and extremely conveniently; for example, you can locate all conversations from a certain day, conveniently browse from one day to the next, quickly locate in the interactive calendar, and more.
* Utilize an extraordinarily powerful search engine to search through your history, with the ability to use multiple terms and search conditions.

The AIM Log Manager features unique analysis tools to analyze your conversations to discover trends and interesting facts:

* Color-code your browsing list based on who initiated the conversations, on time of day, or on a number of other factors.
* Use the advanced graphing tools to graph your conversations in a number of different ways to discover trends and comparisons between buddies.
* Use the interactive calendar timeline to view the chronology of your conversations graphically.
* You can discover initiation ratios, most talkative days, and records of various kinds with the analysis tools.

Edit your log file using the AIM Log Manager's powerful editing tools:

* All your logs are stored in a single, efficient, automatically compressed file. No necessary messing around with unorganized and hard-to-browse HTML log files (although recording these additionally is supported). You can password-protect the file if you need!
* Intelligently merge conversations, especially ones that are close together, automatically if you choose.
* Remove notifications, edit your logged conversations' contents manually, filter duplicates, and much more!

AIM Log Manager Screenshots:

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Monitor, Block, Record Conversations on Yahoo Messenger - IMMonitor Spy

IMMonitor Yahoo Messenger Spy allow you to monitor, block or record Yahoo Messenger conversations remotely, If your kids (or spouse!) are spending too much time chatting via Yahoo Messenger, or you suspect they're engaged in dangerous conversations, IMMonitor Yahoo Messenger Spy is a very simple way to find out and stop it. You can save all intercepted messages to HTML files for later processing. It's easy to use, and it will monitor all conversations without the use of client software installed on the remote computer. No one will know how their Yahoo Messenger conversations is being blocked or recorded and it will never stop working until you close it.

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IMMonitor MSN Spy allow you to monitor, block or record MSN conversations remotely, Is your spouse, child, or friend hiding secrets from you? or you suspect they're engaged in dangerous conversations, If so IMMonitor MSN Spy is your best choice for anyone that needs
this information quickly and secretly. It's easy to use and no additional program installation is needed on the monitoring target computers. No one will know how their MSN conversations is being blocked or recorded and it will never stop working until you close it.

IMMonitor MSN Spy Screenshots:

IMMonitor AIM Spy allow you to monitor, block or record AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) chat conversations remotely, Is your spouse, child, or friend hiding secrets from you? or you suspect they're engaged in dangerous conversations, If so IMMonitor AIM Spy is your best choice for anyone that needs this information quickly and secretly. It's easy to use and no additional program installation is needed on the monitoring target computers. No one will know how their AIM conversations is being blocked or recorded and it will never stop working until you close it.

IMMonitor AIM Spy Screenshots:

IMMonitor ICQ Spy allow you to monitor, block or record ICQ chat conversations remotely, Is your spouse, child, or friend hiding secrets from you? or you suspect they're engaged in dangerous conversations, If so IMMonitor ICQ Spy is your best choice for anyone that needs this information quickly and secretly. It's easy to use and no additional program installation is needed on the monitoring target computers. No one will know how their ICQ conversations is being blocked or recorded and it will never stop working until you close it.

IMMonitor ICQ Spy Screenshots:

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Record, Capture Conversations on Yahoo Messenger - IM Monitor Sniffer

Yahoo Messenger Monitor Sniffer is handy network utility software designed to capture and observe Yahoo Messenger conversations on all computers in a network. It is able to record conversations automatically in real time. And export all intercepted messages to HTML files for later processing and analyzing. It is very easy to make it to work, and it will monitor all conversations in your Local Area network without the use of client software installed on the remote computer.

Yahoo Messenger Monitor Sniffer Screenshots:

MSN Messenger Monitor Sniffer is network utility software designed to monitor, record and capture MSN Messenger conversations on all computers in a network. It is able to record all conversations automatically and export all intercepted messages to HTML files for later processing and analyzing. It is very easy to make it to work, and it will monitor all conversations in your local area network without the use of client software installed on the remote computer.

MSN Messenger Monitor Sniffer Screenshots:

AIM Monitor Sniffer is network utility software designed to monitor, record and capture AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) chat conversations on all computers in a network. It is able to record all conversations automatically and export all intercepted messages to HTML files for
later processing and analyzing. It is very easy to make it to work, and it will monitor all conversations in your local area network without the use of client software installed on the remote computer.

AIM Monitor Sniffer Screenshots:

ICQ Monitor Sniffer is network utility software designed to monitor, record and capture ICQ chat conversations on all computers in a network. It is able to record all conversations automatically and export all intercepted messages to HTML files for later processing and analyzing. It is very easy to make it to work, and it will monitor all conversations in your Local Area network without the use of client software installed on the remote computer.

ICQ Monitor Sniffer Screenshots:

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NootMobile - mobile messenger for AOL, Yahoo, MSN

Licq - multi-threaded ICQ - supports AOL and MSN

Licq is a multi-threaded ICQ (originally; now it supports AOL and MSN as well) clone written mostly in C++. Licq uses an extensive plugin system to manage many different functions. The main GUI is written using the Qt widget set. Licq is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Development is very ongoing, with new features and bugs fixed frequently, so updates are available often. The current version should be very stable, but as with all software use it at your own risk.

LICQ Features:
* Contact List - fully functionning online/offline user list with pixmaps and everything.
* Messages - send and receive messages both online and offline through the server. Send in color too.
* Chat - chat with other users in regular and multiparty mode, set/see colors/fonts and save chat session.
* File transfer - batch transfer files to and from other icq users.
* URL - send and receive URL's from other users.
* Status - set status to any of the available ones, set and retrieve away message.
* User info - retrieve and update all user and personal information.
* Whitepages - full support for General/More/Work/About info as well as searches based on this info.
* History - keeps a log of all messages to and from a user.
* Add/remove and edit user information from within the program.
* Invisible list - be invisible to some users all the time.
* Visible list - be visible to some users when you are in invisible mode.
* Online user notification - have a sound played when a specific user goes online
* Last seen online - shows the last time you've seen this user online
* Local time - displays the local time for the user
* Away-to-User - be a different status to particular users
* Accept-in-Away - automatically accept events from certain users in certain statuses
* Send contact lists - send a list of users to other users
* Search - full support for searching by email/uin/alias/whitepages
* Random chat - find random users (and be found)
* Server stored contacts - keep your groups and users stored on the server
* Typing notification - see when the remot use is typing a message to you
* Phone book - keep track of users phone numbers, and yours
* User pictures - see the picture of the user, if they have one available
* Proxy support - HTTPS proxy support to connect through a proxy server

Licq Screenshots:

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Online or Offline on Yahoo Messenger?

Many people nowdays prefer to stay offline while using Yahoo! Messenger - mostly done to avoid someone. There are many ways of finding people who are online but yet invisible:

First Method: Doodle Method

1. Double Click on the user whose status you want to check.

2. A message window will open.

3. Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.

4. The last step and the most important step. After loading the Doodle IMVironment, there will be two possibilities.

a) If the user is offline, the Doodle area will show "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously.

If the user is online (in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on connection speed), you will get a blank page. So the user is online!

Second Method: Voice Chat Method

1. Double Click on the user whose status you want to check.

2. Click on "Voice" icon on the toolbar, or select "Contact" menu and select "Enable Voice Chat" .

3. The deciding part... there are 2 possible results:

a) If the user is offline, you will get this message: "Internal server error. Cannot obtain voice token to start voice chat."

If the user is invisible (actually online), you will see the Voice Toolbar.

Third Method: Conference Invitation

1. Right Click on the user whose status you want to check.

2. When the menu appears, select Invite to Conference.

3. A window will appear. See at the right pane, the username you selected will be there. Now, click Invite.

4. The deciding part... there are 2 possible results:

a) If the user is offline, you will get this message: "None of the users in the invite list are available to join the conference. Please try at a later time."

If the user is invisible, you will get a window similar saying: "You are now logged into voice conference "

Fourth and the best Method: Buddy Spy

1. Get Buddy Spy

2. Go to configure and enter your login details.

3. Now go to Buddy Spy option and enter the username you want to track. You can also check multiple ids also.

Not only Buddy Spy tells the status of Chat but also Room Chat and WebCamera status of that user also!

4. You can edit other options through Scan Options menu.

(Note: Buddy Spy will automatically logout you of yahoo! messenger if running since yahoo! messenger supports only 1 login. To enable multi logins you need a Multi login patch for Yahoo! Messenger. Search Google for them.)

via Amit Patil

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Display Picture Magnifier

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Add AIM and ICQ Contacts to (MSN) Windows Live Messenger - IMTiger

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Agile Mobile Messenger - for MSN, AOL, ICQ, QQ, Yahoo

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Centericq - for ICQ, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Jabber

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IMUnitive - Web Messenger for MSN, Yahoo, AOL

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IMSafer - for MSN, AOL, ICQ, Yahoo

IMSafer monitors the instant messenger conversations of your children to help you balance protecting your children and respecting their privacy. The IMSafer service will only notify you when your child is engaged in a potentially dangerous conversation on IM.

Once you have installed the IMSafer software on any computer you wish to monitor, if your child receives an IM with content that is flagged by IMSafer, you will receive an email notification within 90 seconds that includes the screen name of the person speaking with your child, the community rating of that person, and the category of the flagged content.

You can follow the link in the email or log on to the web site to see more detail about the conversation, the flagged content, and why it was it was considered dangerous. The IMSafer service understands not just English, but common misspellings, slang and even leet speak, where numbers and punctuation are interchanged with letters.

The parent can view the questionable portion of the IM conversation and explanations as to why the conversation was flagged as potentially dangerous. Furthermore, IMSafer will help parents by explaining slang and IM acronyms that may be related to the questionable portion of the conversation.

IMSafer works hard to honor the privacy of the child by not allowing parents to read full chat transcripts. Spying on children is known to drive their activities underground. Working together is the best way to ensure that your child is protected.

IMSafer gives you the ability to leave feedback on any person who is flagged as having a potentially inappropriate conversation with your child. This feedback allows IMSafer to alert you about someone other parents think has inappropriate relationships with their children the second they begin talking to your child online.

IMSafer Screenshots:

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