Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Though there are several ways to save your friend's MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger), Messenger Plus! Live does the job in the easiest way.
This is the MSN Messenger Display Picture (DP) we wish to save:
Now select and Right Click on the contact, click on "Messenger Plus! Features", and then click on "Contact Information..."
This will bring up the "Contact Information" window. Click on the "Save this image..."
Now choose the location where you want to save the pic and Save it.
By default it saves the pic as .png. However if you wish to save as .jpg, select "All Files (*.*)" from Save ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Wondering what your friend been upto while you were offline? What status update he/she made? Have you missed a new display pic?
Now you can catch up with your friend's all MSN Messenger (Windows Live Messenger) updates anytime you want.
To check your friend's updates, on Windows Live Messenger 2009,
1. Right click on your friend's name
2. Click on "view"
3. And then click on "profile".
This will take you to the person's Live Profile page where you can see his/her MSN Messenger updates under the "What's new with" section.
Note that the name and profile picture used on this page are NOT from the ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
The latest build of Windows Live Messenger 9 (also known as MSN Messenger 9, WLM 9, Windows Live Messenger 2009, MSN Messenger 2009, WLM 2009) provides a new feature calles "Favorites".
Basically its a special contact group which makes it easy to communicate with your frequently used (or most important) contacts by sticking them on top of everything. Very similar to "sticky threads" on forums.
How you add a friend to this "Favorites" group?
Right click on the contact you wish to add to favorites and click on "Add to favorites"
You will find the contact added to the "Favorites Group"
A contact can be ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Sometimes we cant reach a site or server even though it is up due to networking issues. Traceroute is a tool that lets you diagnostic this type of issues.
Including a traceroute report from your pc to the site/server when you open a helpdesk ticket will help the technical support technicians to pin point the problem and resolve it quickly.
This is how you can perform traceroute from windows:
Step 1:
Click on Start > Run.
Step 2:
In the Run window type cmd and click OK.
Step 3:
In te command prompt type tracert domain.com and hit ENTER.
Replace domain.com with your target site or host.
This will give ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
As you might already know that several leaked distrubition of Windows Live Messenger 8.5 (some will still call it MSN Messenger 8.5) has been tampered. The tempered installers may bundle ads and spywares.
MenthiX has provided an official installer digitally signed by Microsoft.
You can varify it from Properties > Digital Signatures of the downloaded installer.
But the installer is in Español and you will need to patch it to make it English.
I am providing you detailed step-by-step instructions with screenshots of how to install and get the english version of WLM 8.5.
First download the following 3 files:
Español Installer: ES_Install_WLMessenger_8_5.exe
Language Patch: msgslang.8.5.1235.0517.dll
Messenger Plus! ...
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Friday, April 20th, 2007
Dawgs Domain has created a tool which will retrive your lost Windows Live Messenger password. A great tool if you have forgotten your password and dont wanna go through or cannot retrive it though the microsoft .net passport password recovery process. Many times we do signup using fake address, zip, birth date.... And some ppl are just too lazy to go through the process.
The author claims it has been legitimately made for people that forget their password and not to used to hack your friends msn password. ;)
To recover your Windows Live Messenger password you need to download this small ...
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
cPanel Proxy is a small PHP script which allows users to access cPanel, WHM and Web Mail on port 80 by acting like a proxy. Its very helpful for people who are behind firewall.
This tutorial guides you on ow to make a server-wide installation of cPanel Proxy so all accounts created on your server gets access to cPanel Proxy (can access cpanel on port 80)
Installing
Connect to your server via SSH and login to your normal user account (for cPanel, this account needs to be a member of the wheel group), then 'su -' to root. At the prompt, type the ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to take a screenshot, screen dump or screen capture from a DVD.
First we need to install a free software (open source) called Media Player Classic
Download:
Media Player Classic for Windows XP and Windows 2000
Media Player Classic for Windows ME and Windows 98
The software doesnt even need any installation. Simply extract the .zip and run the mplayerc.exe
This brings up the Windows Media Player Classic.
Click on File > Open DVD...
This starts playing your DVD movie.
(yes the screen is blank here... cause you cannt capture dvd screenshot with traditional PrintScreen key)
Now when are at the screen you capture, click ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
RapidShare.de is the most popular file sharing service around. This tutorial will guide you to download a file from RapidShare.de/RapidShare.com
If you have any download manager or download accelerator running (like Free Dwnload Manager or FDM, Download Accelerator Plus or DAP) please disable them before you start downloading (unless you have a premium account). RapidShare does not allow using such softwares with free accounts.
Step 1:
A rapid share download link usually looks like the following.
Click on the link.
Step 2:
This will take you to a page like the following.
Scroll down and click on the FREE button.
Step 3:
In the next page you should see ...
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
This tutorial will guide you to download files using a download manager called "Free Download Manager (FDM)"
Why using FDM (or any other download manager)? Because it allows you to resume downloads if you get disconnected and much more features including a faster download.
As the name says FDM is a totally free download manager. No ads, nag screen or limitation.
You can download Free Download Manager (FDM) from www.freedownloadmanager.org
Lets download and install it first!
Go to www.freedownloadmanager.org
Click on the "Download" link.
Download and install it.
How to install? Save it to a location and run the downloaded installer. Follow instructions.
Now when we have it installed, ...
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