How do you identify spam links received on instant messengers? One of the easiest way is to identify the domain. If your friend is sharing random links with unknown domain, the fancy ones especially, you should be very wary (pun). Some phishing sites might also use domain similar to popular social networking sites, faceb0ok.com for [...]

Windows Live Messenger 2011 might spot a cleaner interface and better Facebook integration, but to many users, these doesn’t justify the inability to change display name and other missing features like handwriting. Read on if you are one of those Windows Live Messenger 2011 haters and wish to downgrade to an older version.

Microsoft bundled the all new Windows Live Essentials 2011 pack in a recent Windows update, which includes Windows Live Messenger 2011 (15.4.3502.0922). WLM 2011 sports a Windows 7-ish user interface, tabbed chat window, Bing integration, Facebook integration, and has an overall cleaner look comparing to the earlier version. But if you have previously removed the [...]

I consider myself a loyal user of Windows Live Messenger. In fact, I started it using before it is renamed from MSN Messenger. I had once tried Digsby and Pidgin, and recently once again re-try Digsby, but they are just nothing near to my liking. Another reason is that most of my contacts are using [...]

Especially on smaller screens, the advertisements on Windows Live Messenger really takes up quite a lot of space. It is also annoying for popping up when the cursor is accidentally moved to the ads.

MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger has a quite annoying feature to me, which is having a popup of Windows Live Today/MSN Today every single time you sign into your account. That might be useful to some, but in my case, I am not using Hotmail, thus making the pop-up not useful at all. To disable Windows [...]