Communicating via instant messaging or text alone has challenges. You don't get to read the body language or see the telling smirk on the other person's face. And so emoticons were born -- a shorthand code to help inject text messages with emotions. And thank god -- without them this entire video … [Read more...]
IMBooster Public Beta Invitation
IMBooster launched Public Beta this week, announcing that registrations will be open until a maximum of 4000 beta testers subscribe. IMBooster is an add-on for Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger that extends those programs with new avatars, winks, nudges and emoticons. If you'd like … [Read more...]
Customizing the Animated Emoticons in MSN Messenger 6
MSN Messenger 6 introduced the ability to add your own, user-defined emoticons. Unfortunately, they don't currently allow you to send animated images. You can specify an animated image as your custom emoticon, but MSN Messenger will only display the first frame of the animation. MSN Messenger 6 … [Read more...]
Emoticons & Smileys
What are Emoticons or Smileys? Emoticons (called "smileys" by some programs) are a combination of symbols to form an icon that helps express emotion. For example, when you string together a colon, a hyphen and a right-parenthesis, you're expressing a smile. If you look at it sideways, it even … [Read more...]