The newest Live related tab has launched, this time for Office Live, bringing the total number of Live tabs for Windows Live Messenger to 5. It joins Expo, Favorites, Messenger and the original Alerts tabs.
I’m not a user of Office Live, so I’m not sure what the tab does exactly for those who do use it. You can give the tab a try out by directly opening it in your browser. The tab should already be in your tab list if your account settings include United States as your country. You can also add the tab to your custom list of tabs if you are using TabServe, just login and run the importer, choose United States and add it.
The Windows Live Expo team this week rolled out some new features to the free online marketplace service, including a new a Messenger tab.
The tab allows you to quickly search for items and view the results; going to an item in the results will open a new browser Window. There is also a quick link to post a new listing.
The tab should already be in your tab list if your account settings include United States as your country. You can also add the tab to your custom list of tabs if you are using TabServe, just login and run the importer, choose United States and add it.
A big thank you to Rolando and the guys behind Mess Patch – TabServe is now compatible with Windows Live Messenger!
Mess Patch Generation 5 has just been released and now integrates patching capabilities for TabServe. The official patch for TabServe only works with MSN Messenger and I have never got around to updating it, so I was very pleased when Rolando proposed the integration. I hope to make a few final adjustments to the TabServe service for further Windows Live Messenger support before the end of the year.
Mess Patch is from now on the official patch for TabServe on Windows Live Messenger, the MSN Messenger patch will remain for legacy purposes.
Head over to Mess with Messenger and download Mess Patch Generation 5 for your version. The TabServe part is the fourth section in the patch, so if you are not interested in the other patch options you can simply just skip past them.
I completely forgot about the tab when launching Fanatic Live, so it’s been sitting there like a zombie and probably no one using it. Today I spent a little time getting it working again and updating it to reflect Fanatic Live-ness. Take a look at it, but don’t look at the header – it’s huge, I just pulled the one from here, will get a smaller one soon.
On the topic of tabs, I also updated the TabServe MsgrConfig data, which was long overdue as well, in the next version of TabServe I hope to automate this process or totally remove the concept of storing your own config, instead just editing the live version on the fly.
While I was updating the data, I noticed a new setting:
<PublicFederated>
<YahooNetwork Enabled="true" OfflineIM="false" Upsell="http://g.msn-int.com/5meen_ms/177/" />
</PublicFederated>
This was for the US data, and note that it is configured to be enabled. Yahoo! integration must be really close.
Two new tabs are now being hosted by Fanatic Live, Reuters and Fark RSS feeds, both created by Chainlink. Add them using TabServe.
I’m not a user of Office Live, so I’m not sure what the tab does exactly for those who do use it. You can give the tab a try out by directly opening it in your browser. The tab should already be in your tab list if your account settings include United States as your country. You can also add the tab to your custom list of tabs if you are using TabServe, just login and run the importer, choose United States and add it.
