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leaked mp2

dwergs — Fri, 03 Jan 2003 00:59:01 +0000

Testers for the popular program Messenger Plus 2 have leaked the alpha version just before the official release date, which was scheduled january 4th. We strongly recommend not to download the alpha version since it will still include bugs, but nevertheless it is out there. The leaked version can be found on several news sites.

Vulnerability in Microsoft’s passport service

dwergs — Tue, 24 Dec 2002 21:39:51 +0000

ElectroPhreak has discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Passport service that could allow anyone to steal your Passport including your Hotmail account. Microsoft has been informed of the matter.

Neowin

dwergs — Mon, 04 Nov 2002 23:51:11 +0000

Neowin has officially opened its doors again today. We all missed them :). Let us hope they are here to stay now. Thanks to Timothy for reporting.

thanks

dwergs — Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:15:36 +0000

I want to express my sincere thanks to all the messers who have massively responded to the Exit Blog Advertisement Help. Let us ask ourself the question: Who didn’t see “http://www.mess.be Rules” (or a similar sentence) in that tunnel. The rumours are we simply rule ;-)… But it’s nothing important, we are just messing around.

helping mess

dwergs — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 18:45:24 +0000

Check out this Exit Blog topic. And do try to support mess :D! There is no such thing as too much publicity ;).

skinning tutorial

dwergs — Fri, 25 Oct 2002 00:35:27 +0000

Skinning tutorial for the new MSN messenger 5.0 re-released. You can find it at http://www.dicksworld.co.uk.
Tutorial made by Juancho, Bloodyaznthugz and Richie. Credits go to Juancho for reminding us of it ;)

Neowin

dwergs — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:04:46 +0000

A sad message from Neowin: “Due to mis-understandings about ads on Neowin we have been forced to close the site. We already have offers of hosting and are not looking in that direction right now.
We are not sure at the moment what will happen with the site.” Keep it up Neowin, you ARE undeniably one of the best!

IE 7

dwergs — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 19:17:14 +0000

So there have been some persons who have gotten their hands on an official version of Internet Explorer 7. They proved this with some screenshot. However Bunnios has proven the fact it is without a doubt a fake.

His explanation:
The about box, as you can see the box on the left is the one from the IE7 fake and the one on the right is from Windows Whistler Build 2462 (Xp for those of you who are new) What first struck me as a very clever part of the fake was the fact that the windows flag has been replaced with the XP final one on the IE7 fake, however it is noticeable that the version build 7.0.2462.000.main.010315-17:39 (which literally means it was built on 15-03-01 at 17:39) is identical on both shots.

Secondly the product ID is that of a Whistler beta and not of Xp final or .NET betas (XP pro final product key begins 55274). Screenshot here.

It is also painfully obvious that this is XP build 2462 because of that fucking recycle bin with handles, which were removed shortly after this build. Screenshot here.
(left= IE7, right=Xp 2462)

More rumours, features that may be included on IE 7:
I will continue my Browser news
Here are rumours from usernet

1. There will be a spell cheacker for forms and for people who have office 11 there will be a thesauruse both will work the same way is the right click menu that already exists in MS word(red underline etc)
2. Popups. There will be no popup stoper but there will be limits on what popups can do (no full screen and multiple popups etc)
3. Tabs there is likely to be some sort of tab UI but it is likely to be different to the in Mozilla and Opera.
4. The will some sort of theme ability similar to that of Opera
5. There will be many new fetures for window XP that will not be in 98,98se,me to do with the abilities of the operating system.

there will be no version for Windows NT4 .
Found on Mozillazine.

File Transfer

dwergs — Sun, 13 Oct 2002 22:00:35 +0000

I’m starting to like Mr. Timothy. Do you have a problem with the MSN Messenger file transfer? I know lots of people who do, usually this is because they are behind a firewall using a proxy, or they are using a network.
Well Mr. Timothy showed me how you could solve this problem. You can find his tutorial here. This solution applies to all the problems mentioned in the beginning. This is tested for XP, but it should work on the other OS’s too.

Note:
- For firewalls it will work almost the same way, just configure it that port 6891 until 6900 are opened for TCP usage.
- For proxy, you do need access to the proxy settings.

Msn 8.0

dwergs — Sun, 13 Oct 2002 19:36:10 +0000

How long is the word out that MSN 8.0 is going to be released (release date = 24th October), since Oct. 9 right? Praise the people at Winbeta, because they have gotten their hands on an official version of this toy that everybody wants ;) (no BETA). You will be needing an actual MSN 8.0 account to make it work. Enjoy the screenshot here or read the actual story here.