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Originally posted by Crazy Serb that's like ricing up the shitbox to the max...

No they are just starting to actually charge $$ for themes and emoticons

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Originally posted by Crazy Serb Trillian 3.0 4 life, foo!

Oh shit

Do you have to "pay" for this?

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Originally posted by Durafei Obviously there are a bunch of idiots who are blogging. But on the other hand, you get a chance read blogs by some of the main guys in the industry like Adam Bosworth(who is responsible for MS Access, IE, and currently VP at Google), James Gosling (inventor of Java) etc, etc, etc.

Yeah but those guys have their own web sites, they don't need to clutter up the internet with more pages on blogspot and diaryland and whatever else is out there. Those sites should die NOW. I have NEVER seen anything worth reading on any of them, they're mostly full of dumb cam sluts who think that they're models and that their meaningless lives are actually important to someone.

And even if there were useful pages - so what, why shouldn't we have the option to exclude them from our searches if that isn't what we're looking for? I'm 100% sure that the google bot knows when it's crawling a blog - it can't be that hard to flag them.

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Use scholar.google.com if you want research material

Now there's something that actually looks useful for once! Let's hope they manage to avoid cluttering it up with crap this time!

Oh and:

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BTW, I just installed MSN Messenger 7.. First impression: IT SUCKS! Is there any way to get rid of the tabs(Alerts, Lava Life etc), and the advertisements at the bottom ?

Those tabs have been there since version 6! Where have you been? I think you can still use Messenger Plus to get rid of them, but I heard rumours a while back that it had become infested with spyware.

Personally, I prefer Miranda. Trillian's alright, but the team really needs to be more active with fulfilling user requests. They took forever just to implement ICQ's server-side contact list.

Paying for emoticons... that's hysterical, I'll bet that some airheads will actually do it too.

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I have NEVER seen anything worth reading on any of them, they're mostly full of dumb cam sluts who think that they're models and that their meaningless lives are actually important to someone.

Again.. I'm not sure what kind of blogs you've been reading, but I've learnt tremendous amount of informations (mostly programming related though) from these blogs. Whenever I have a problem now, I just search for it, and in many cases there is a blog describing how to solve it.

I'm also using FeedReader and currently subscribed to at least 20 different blogs of interest that I read on a regular basis. (my favourite blog is of course www.joelonsoftware.com)

Also keep in mind that even though blogging is already very popular, it still is far far far from the peak of it's popularity. Blogs allow users to express their opinions, knowledge etc - thus making it accessible to everyone. As more people start blogging, this collective knowledge available online will increase substantially, and as search engine become even better, it will be far easier for us to find what we are looking for.

And of course Blogging is a great way to communicate about yourself to your friends and family.

Again, these blogs are from companies or people with established websites - how many useful blogs have you seen on the mass-producing blog sites? They're the equivalent of GeoCities/Yahoo or Angelfire web pages.

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Originally posted by Durafei Use scholar.google.com if you want research material

cool

anyway, i have heard soo much bad about msn 7 so i wont even bother testing it

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Originally posted by Durafei BTW, I just installed MSN Messenger 7.. First impression: IT SUCKS! Is there any way to get rid of the tabs(Alerts, Lava Life etc), and the advertisements at the bottom ? I actually wonder who is the genius behind some of these tabs. People use MSN messenger for day-to-day instant messaging, not for day-to-day job/love finding... ridiculous !!

[Message from NEWR] Get MSN plus and Stuffplus-NG those add-ons have an option to install ad-ware... say no to this... but it gets rid of all those extra shitty features that MSN has... and adds some pretty cool ones
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how about a nice update for the mac version? maybe from v.4-5?

meh, I used Adium anyways..

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Originally posted by DigiNut Paying for emoticons... that's hysterical, I'll bet that some airheads will actually do it too.

there's always some geniuses who will fall for that one...

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Originally posted by VERTiG0 Oh shit Do you have to "pay" for this?

the same way you "pay" for all the other software out there...

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