Internet Messenger Add-ons

Universal Add-ons 

  • IMVU 3D Avatars - turns IM into avatar chat, letting you and your friends IM as animated characters in a 3D scene. The characters are called avatars. The scenes are 3D chat rooms. IMVU and your first avatar are free. If you want to buy more avatars, clothes, or chatrooms, they are for sale in the catalog for about $.50 cents each.
MSN Messenger Add-ons 

  • MSN Messenger DirectTalk makes it possible to talk with anyone using MSN Messenger voice chat or video chat even when behind NATs where attempts to talk using voice & video chat usually fail

  • Messenger Plus - personalise your status, contacts status change notification, task scheduler, email checker (POP3), 1100 character messages (instead of 400), auto-accept file transfers, quick text and much, much more. Very popular (2 million downloads per month). Comes with an optional sponsor program. This program will show ads from time to time on your computer, add a search bar in Internet Explorer and may change your start page. Look carefully for the option to not have it during the installation of Messenger Plus - the default is to have it. More info here & here.

  • MSN Sniffer - a network utility to capture MSN chat on network. It records MSN conversations automatically. All intercepted messages can be saved as HTML files for later processing and analyzing.

  • Web Based MSN Messenger - allows you to use MSN Messenger with only a browser. Great for chatting with buddies on computers where MSN Messenger will not work or is banned. Similar is MSN2Go

  • Block Checker - check who is blocking you on MSN Messenger

  • Talking Messenger - hear your messages and email notifications in a male or female voice

  • Cameno - use tabbed windows: all your conversation windows into one. Designed for Windows XP and MSN Messenger 6 and up
Yahoo Messenger Add-ons 

  • Yahoo Messenger Skins - many sites that provide skins for Yahoo Messenger

  • Y!TunnelPro - provides additional features to Yahoo! Messenger including enhanced privacy, better connections to voice servers, endless ignore bin, font and style filtering, and spam blocking. Also provides protection against abusive and malicious chatroom activity.
AOL Messenger Add-ons 

  • DeadAIM features customisable buddy list, tabbed instant message windows, window transparency effects, logging of conversations, ability to run multiple AIMs and much more....

  • TPA Messenger Plus offers an number of enhancements, not least of which is the removal of ads!

  • AIM+ is a free add-on that integrates flawlessly with AIM's interface. Clones AIM, removes ads, customizes your buddy list window, logs IMs and chat....this add-on does all this and much more!

  • Extreme Messenger - completely customizable Buddy List window, Away Message Scheduler, transparent windows, conversation logging, chat color fading, enhanced AIM Today, IM skins and styles, colorful backgrounds, fade sharing, alert words, IM pop ups, and much much more!

  • MyIM is a free plugin for AOL Instant Messenger. Removes ads, save all/some of your conversations , run multiple copies of AIM at once, customize your Buddy List

  • Palfun is feature enhancer plug-in for AOL Instant Messenger, making your conversations easier and more comfortable.

  • RunABot - create a chatbot for AIM

  • Chatting AIM Bot - tell CAB your friends AIM or AOL screen name and then the computer will talk to your friend using a random screen name. The computer will pretend to be a real person and hold an interactive conversation using some artificial intelligence. After ten minutes they will be told they have been tricked into talking to a computer and you will get to see the whole conversation so you can make fun of them.

  • Chime Away! is a tiny program that automatically downloads and sets new away messages for Aol Instant Messenger every minute. You can select the categories for away messages, like Food, School, Shower, Sleep, and Work etc. Chime Away! also lets you cycle through your own AIM away messages, and you can specify which messages to use by entering the keywords. You can set the time after which a new message will be displayed and select the font name, colors, and styles for the away messages.

  • AIM Sniffer - a network utility to capture AIM chat on network. It records AIM conversations automatically. All intercepted messages can be saved as HTML files for later processing and analyzing.
ICQ Add-ons 

  • When you are away, Advanced ICQ Tools can automatically forward the incoming messages to your mobile phone (via SMS), to your e-mail address or to another ICQ number and automatically reply to your incoming messages.

  • ICQ Sniffer - a network utility to capture ICQ chat on network. It records ICQ conversations automatically. All intercepted messages can be saved as HTML files for later processing and analyzing.

  • ICQ2Go - official web-based version of ICQ enabling users to log on through computer that don't have ICQ installed.

  • ICQ Tools - allows you to automatically launch programs upon receipt of messages, check mailboxes, forward messages from mailboxes to an ICQ-designated number, and check Web sites for updates and accessibility.

  • ICQ Activity Logger - records all ICQ chat windows activity. Does the job silently and leaves no traces.

  • KXicq - Linux client for ICQ. Requires KDE

 
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