The new version is completely different, with a more attractive interface and compatible with the latest Messenger update.

Key features:

• Tabbed chats
• Quick Texts
• Custom Sounds
• Messenger Skinning (Skins)
• Colors, formatting and commands
• Recharge your Messenger
• Personalized Status
• Messenger Lock
• Contacts on Desktop
• HTML Chat Logging
• Emoticons and Winks
• Event viewer and event logging
• Contact List Clean-up
• Polygamy (run multiple Messenger sessions)

MsgPlus site lists that they’ve more than 500 million downloads of this addon.

Download Messenger Plus! Live

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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

• Offline Messaging
• Voice Clips
• Display pictures
• Custom emoticons
• Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
• Webcam support
• Sign in to more than one account at once
• Full-speed File transfers
• Group support
• Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
• Chat logs
• Time stamping
• Event alarms
• Conferencing support
• Tabbed chat windows
• For a full list, see the features page.

More features can be added to aMSN with plugins , or completely change its look with different skins!

Download aMSN  [Windows version available too]

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So, I’ll tell you how to install the audio and video plugins needed by media players to play files in Ubuntu. GStreamer extra plugins and GStreamer ffmpeg video plugin are the best recommended codecs to use. To install them follow the steps below:

1. Go to Applications > Add/Remove…

2. Set Show: to All available applications

3. In the search tab type GST. Now you’ll see the above listed plugins.

Check both the plugins, confirm and install them. An Internet connection is required to download and install these plugins.

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Don’t worry, I’ve found a service which provides a 100% Free WordPress blog setup. Its easy to install Wordpress as it is just a one click install from your fantastico cpanel page. But apart from installation the complete setup of WP blog is not that easy.

WP Beginners provides various tips and guides about Wordpress and also provides the facility to setup your new Wordpress blog for Free. This site founder is Syed Balkhi’s.

What is included in Free WordPress Setup Package?

• Complete WordPress Installation
• Optimize your Blog for Search Engines and Tips to increase your Search Engine Ranking Position
• Adsense integration and Tips to increase earnings
• Making Your Blog Hacker/Spam proof
• Automate Daily Backups for safety
• Setup a Professional Email
• Setup Feedburner account to handle your RSS Subscribers
• Setup Email Subscription Option and Embed it in your Blog
• Free Support via Email

No Catch – You will be surprised as there is no catch in this service. You are not required to pay them a single penny.

Free WordPress Blog Setup

WP Beginners shares beginners guide and tips, for users planning to start a new blog on Wordpress like:

• Picking up the right domain for your blog
• How to Install Wordpress
• Recommended Wordpress Plugins
• Picking the right Web Hosting
• Selecting the Perfect theme
• Publishing Your Blog to the World

You must check out their site, it is really worthy specially for a newbie.

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Visitors will see a message like "Maintenance Mode – SITE is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. Please try back in 60 minutes. Sorry for the inconvenience."

You can fully modify the shown message in the plugins option. To activate the Maintenance Mode, navigate to WordPress Administration » Settings » Maintenance Mode, select ‘Activate’ and save the options.

This plugin is compatible up to WordPress 2.7 +

Download Here

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• print friendly – Print and Save webpage as PDF easily

Mozilla Firefox

Top 10 favorite add-ons for Firefox [Previously Discussed Addons]

Newly Discussed Best 15 Firefox Add-ons/Extensions:

15) KwiClick – KwiClick makes searching anything easier than ever. It removes the need to open a new tab and search for information from Google, Twitter, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube, FriendFeed and much more. It also adds its entry in Firefox right click menu to search.

14) CloudBerry TweetFox – Make easier to tweet on twitter. Just select the text on the web pages and tweet it to your friends. Link will be added automatically to the source with Chilp.It

13) Arch View – It is an add-on for Firefox which can open archive file online without downloading the whole archive. ArchView supports RAR, ZIP formats and ISO CD image.

12) Paste & Go – Paste And Go And Paste And Search integrates the function to save our time when we copy and paste URLs in the browser address bar.

11) Google Toolbar – The latest beta of Google toolbar shows most visited sites thumbnails when a new page is open, like in Google Chrome. Fill out forms faster with improved AutoFill. You can add gadgets to toolbar and access your favourite bookmarks easily

10) SkipScreen – It automatically clicks through the hoops to get to the content you want. Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more.

9) TwitterFox – It is a Firefox extension that notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter. Twitter Fox sits quietly at bottom right corner of Firefox, notifying you about tweets, messages and replies on twitter. You can easily make tweets using it.

Flashblock -  Blocks All Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

7) BabelFish Instant Translation – Most easy, highly customizable, and fast Firefox translation extension: Provides two translation services and additional access to Google’s dictionary. It adds itself to the right click menu of web pages for easy use.

6) AutoPager – It automatically loads the next page when you reach the end of the page. It works on a ton of sites, like Google,Yahoo.This add-on works well with most other add-ons like adblock plus, WOT and most of the greasemonkey scripts.

5) Download Statusbar -View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar – without the download window getting in the way of your web browsing.

4) PDF Download – As discussed earlier, PDF Download by Nitro PDF is a great addon to save web pages as high quality PDF files. It is the leading tool for handling, viewing and creating Web-based PDF files.

3) Video DownloadHelper – It simplifies the task to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites. This works also for audio and picture galleries. The icon gets animated and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item

2) iMacros – It lets you automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If you are tired of repetitive tasks like visiting the same sites every day, filling out forms, and remembering passwords, then iMacros for Firefox is the best solution.

1) FoxTab – It brings innovative and attractive 3D tab management to Firefox. The feature of flipping between opened tabs is easy and enjoyable. FoxTab has 5 fascinating eye candy layouts, enables grouping, filtering, closing and switching between tabs quickly and easily.

>> Don’t forget to see our previous post on Top 10 Most favorite Firefox addons which includes the most essential addons.

Hope you like the above list of useful Firefox Addons. Do give these addons a try out and notice the difference in your day to day Internet tasks.

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Grooveshark is a most popular music website that allows visitors to listen music online and share music with friends. It has millions of songs contributed by Grooveshark users, you can  just find any song and share it with your friends and blog readers.

Using Grooveshark’s widget builder, you can easily create a widget by adding a song from Grooveshark’s massive song library. You can Simply search the song to add to your widget or even upload an MP3 from your computer. See the examples below:

Single song added using Grooveshark:

Custom playlist of many songs added using Grooveshark:

The best part is that it’s all 100% Free and no Registration needed to use it. There are lots of color schemes available to customize your widgets to match your website/blog style.

Grooveshark also has a Wordpress plugin that allows you to insert a link to music on Grooveshark or a Grooveshark Widget to allow your readers to play music as they read your blog.

You can SignUp for Free, to make a playlist of your favorite songs and listen to them anywhere, just by logging in to your account.

I’m also a huge fan of Grooveshark and also advice you to give this service a try. You will definitely like it. http://listen.grooveshark.com/

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Top Posts Widget by Post Rank is an awesome widget to show Top Posts on a blog or website. It shows top post results on the basis of: post views, Google search, twitter tweets, clicks, comments and Post Rank analysis for a certain post.

You can see the working of this widget live on our blog’s sidebar. I’m using it from some time and really impressed to see its working.

Main Features of Top Posts Widget:

• Smart and Cool interface
• Real-time search for Top Posts and Topic Search on a blog
• Option to create a custom RSS feed of Top posts
• Helps in Increasing Readership and Maximizing Revenue
• Customize your widget by color theme and choose the number of posts to display.
• Shows ranks along post side in descending order from 1-10
• Easy installation on Blogger, TypePad and Wordpress using plugin or codes

You can also know your Top posts results without the widget too. Just go to http://www.postrank.com/ and enter your website or blog address in the search bar at top.

You must surely give a try to this widget. Also share your views with us if you like it.

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