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March 30, 2002 at 8:23 pm #8038detn8rParticipant
THE GABOO XTENSION 0.80
I came across this pretty cool add-on for MSN Messenger!! It’s called the Gaboo Xtension. I’ll explain some of the features here:
REGISTRY BASED—
…Allows you to change message at beginning of convo, instead of the plain “never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message” or with MSN Poly Gamy “one god one world”. With gaboo all you have to do is put in the “blurb” as they call it, and push change or ok. And that’s it! It’s changed!! That’s all!Text Colour Changer…Not as “nice” looking as Grimbo’s is, but it looks the same as Yahoo’s does. Ok if you don’t use Grimbo.
MSN Server Tweaker…Not sure how to use but it does seem pretty hard to understand. USE AT OWN RISK!!!
CONTACT LISTS—… Your Contact list, your allow list, your block list, and your reverse list all in one window, for easy reference.
NICK NAME OPTIONS—… One way to change your nickname, make lines in your nickname example:
HI
HOW
ARE
YOU… Shows all emotions, including the hidden ones like the rainbow, and the “asl”. Good if you don’t use Messenger Plus!
Nickname Converter— Changes characters into ALT codes. Example: µ î¦ ó¦ etc…
MISC OPTIONS—
… Offline Talker. Shows your self as offline, but you can chat at the same time, but only if you start the conversation.Friendly Name Tricks This will allow you to have ever-changing nicknames that are set on intervals.
WINAMP— Allows you to change your current nickname to the song your listening to in WINAMP and WINAMP only, it will not work with any other music player for example Windows Media Player.
MESSAGE OPTIONS…
Auto Response… Like personal away message in Messenger +.
Echo Text…….…Pretty self-explanatory.
Welcome user with auto text when they come online…. coming soon!!!
Away Message: In here you write a personal away message, like “I’m currently idle” and then click on enable. And when you put your self as away, busy, brb, etc… it will automatically set the away message that you wrote at any time you do it at! for example if you set it at 12 noon, and set your self as busy, 2 hours later it will set the away message.About Gaboo Button…. Also pretty self-explanatory.
And that’s about it!! If your still interested in Gaboo after reading this check out their web site @ http://www.msnskins.net/gaboo/ also go to the site for downloading details.
–Chewy
March 30, 2002 at 9:53 pm #68727Jeff HesterKeymasterThanks for the excellent review, Chewy. Very thorough.
I’ll second Chewy’s vote for Gaboo. I don’t use a lot of third-party add-ons (I like to run lean-and-mean), but this is one I’ve actually used and had some fun with. Works as advertised and well supported (which is a LOT more than you can say for a lot of the add-ons out there).
The only problem I’ve had is with the Winamp name-changer-thingy. Basically some song titles contain characters (or even “banned” words) that MSN won’t let you use in your nickname, and it kinda chokes on those.
Other than that, an excellent add-on.
Jeff Hester
BigBlueBall.comApril 21, 2003 at 1:35 am #68731detn8rParticipantomi gosh…….. the link doesnt work any more…… any one have the link to it?
April 21, 2003 at 7:23 am #68728rustedtightMemberTheres been absolutely no interest shown in the past 12 months……… Who cares?
April 21, 2003 at 9:27 pm #68730detn8rParticipanti do…………….. i want it.
April 22, 2003 at 3:48 am #68732JaneMember“…Allows you to change message at beginning of convo, instead of the plain “never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message” or with MSN Poly Gamy “one god one world”. With gaboo all you have to do is put in the “blurb” as they call it, and push change or ok. And that’s it! It’s changed!! That’s all!”
i don’t get that part….because i’m using Plus! and whenever i chat to ppl that message never come’s up about the password….doesn’t this happen 2 everyone? in my chat’s it only come’s up with a security warning…in which u can customise…in my case i customised it to: GooD CharLotte rawKs….n that’s all….can someone plz explain? i thought that this woz one of the benefits of Plus!
April 22, 2003 at 4:56 am #68729detn8rParticipantummmm it is. it just means that you can also do this with gaboo.
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