Plug ins

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VeronicaK

I'm a bit of an messenger newbie, so not sure if that has already been asked
before, but here goes.

I've heard there are plug ins for messenger that will add a whole lot of
extras, i.e, being able to add sounds, seeing when contacts were last online,
and other cool things.

Problem is none of these dowload sites are affiliated with Microsoft and I'm
kind of nervous to download from a random site. Has anyone else used these
plug ins? Are they safe?

Thanks,
Veronica
 
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Jonathan Kay [MVP]

Greetings Veronica,

Depends what they are.

If you're thinking of Messenger Plus! Live (http://www.msgplus.net), I'll personally vouch
for it. Although please watch during the setup as you may not want to install the "sponsor"
(adware) program that you get asked to install during the setup.

If you're thinking of something else, just reply with the name and I can tell you pretty
quickly. Also, avoid downloading anything except from official sites, "download sites" can
be quite dodgy at times.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger/MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
Associate Expert
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/
Messenger Resources - http://messenger.jonathankay.com
All posts unless otherwise specified are (c) 2007 Jonathan Kay.
You *must* contact me for redistribution rights.
 
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ms user

Oh, by the way is there any safe MS affiliated site where I can download a
plug in that changes the gifs' size?

I'd like to enlarge the size of my gifs without adding add wares and all
these annoying things that came with the unsafe softwares and plug ins.

Thanks.
 
J

Jonathan Kay [MVP]

Hi,

No, Microsoft does not endorse nor link to any third-party Messenger tools (with the
exception of SDKs for bot/agent development).

What exactly do you mean by "enlarge"? Do you mean forcing Messenger to display them larger,
or just the images themselves? If the latter, any standard paint program can assist with
that.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
 
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ms user

No that's not what I meant. Sorry, I may have not explained it clearly.

So here we go:

Windows Live Messenger supports gifs, so in a chat I can send text and gifs.

Oh, by "gifs" I mean the animated smiles, these little faces smiling,
crying, rolling eyes sarcastically, etc. But due to the fact that the
messenger has also a function that enables me to add new animated smiles by
loading any image with the ".gif" extension, and concerning that such new
uploaded images can be any animated image (like a sun shining or a car going
fast), I got the habit to call it generically as "gifs". But in fact, people
in general call it "smiles".

During a conversation, I saw once in the Windows Live Messenger chat window
someone who sent me smiles in a larger size. The smiles that we can send in
this messenger are small sized. But due to the plug in my friend was using in
her messenger, she was able to send me larger gifs (in the messenger chat
window, of course).

And by size I mean the size of the image view on the screen, not the space
it occupies in the hard drive.

Am I being understandable? (oh I hope so)

For example: lets suppose I saved in my hard drive a image whose size is
300x400 pixels.

If I use the Windows Live Messenger tool to create new smiles to upload this
300x400 pixels image as a smile, it will be turned in a new smile and also it
will be added to my list of smiles. And I will be able to send it to my
contacts as I do with any other of the smiles that originally came with the
Messenger.

But this new smile that I have just created will be a lot smaller (compared
to its original 300x400 pixels size) when I send it to my contacts.

So what I need is the plug in that makes these new smiles keep its original
size on the screen or at least a plug in that will not let these images
(uploaded as smiles) be so drastically reduced in its view size.

Now I think I explained it right... Sorry for the long text.

And thanks for the help :)
 
J

Jonathan Kay [MVP]

Hi,

I see. What you're referring to was a previous feature of Stuff-Plug which is no longer in
Stuff-Plug.

Messenger doesn't allow this anymore to the best of my knowledge.

--
Jonathan Kay
Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
MessengerGeek Blog: http://www.messengergeek.com
Messenger Resources: http://messenger.jonathankay.com
(c) 2008 Jonathan Kay - If redistributing, you must include this signature or citation
 

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