Facebook Chat On Windows With Messenger for Windows – Are you a frequent user of the Facebook Chat? Now you don’t have to turn on your browser, go to Facebook.com to chat with you friend. You can download the Facebook’s Messenger for Windows, which is a standalone app that you can install on your Windows system and chat with your friends.

The Messenger for Windows includes the chat system, notification system and friend request, it’s just like Facebook ported into an application. UI doesn’t change a bit from the Facebook, so nothing to fancy much about it. It also has pop-up notification to show your Facebook activity like who like or post on your wall, status, photos and more.

One more thing, I find the UI quite boring, despite having a standalone app, it should somehow has a different standalone design.

You can download it now for free on Facebook. Check out the help centre for more details.

Microsoft just released the BETA version of Windows Live Essentials.

Windows Live Essentials consist a list of useful software by Microsoft like the Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Sync and more. It’s all under the Windows Live brand name. Also include is a new version of Windows Live Messenger.

I was curious so I downloaded the whole BETA version of Windows Live Essentials to check out what’s new and the big changes is the new Windows Live Messenger, an IM software that I always use. The contact list has changed, now added a sidebar showing all the social and status update. It can have Facebook and Myspace update there but I somehow couldn’t get it work. I can’t change my display name like before, it couldn’t fancy, it’s very standard with my first name and last name. I don’t like it. I like fancy display name. Add on and hacks of course are not working with the new Live Messenger BETA.

There’s tabbed conversation window but I prefer a separate one. Used it for like a few minutes, couldn’t get myself comfortable with the new one and I uninstalled it and install back the old Live Messenger. I believe this is not a final one, they will change, for sure. As for other essentials software, I didn’t try it though because I never use them.

Download the Windows Live Essentials here. Then share your experience. =D

Ever jealous of some great toy camera, tilt shift, lomography camera applications on the iPhone? Yes, I do and very do. I hate why Android doesn’t have such cool camera app. Though, no dissapointment, there’s still one free camera application for Android which give you lomography effect and more like polaroid framing, fisheye and more!

Best part of all, it’s free and many choices of effect. Easy to use too. Just install it and pick your effect, then point and shoot.

I only use the Toy Camera effect but one thing that I don’t like is that, the effect still not very close to a real lomography and somehow I feel the app on iPhone is better than this. Anyway, better than nothing, download this and install on your Android now, it’s a must have!

Scan the QR code with barcode scanner on your Android or download here.

Feeling bored about your standby screen on your S60 phone? Yeah, it’s very bored and not customizable. Last time I tried Handy Shell, which is a home screen replacement for the S60 phone, the application and how it works looks very cool but one problem for me using N95 is that the Handy Shell seriously lagged my phone and another down side of it is that it’s not a free application.

My previous original home screen.

Recently I found a new application that will replace your standby screen with various customization. Actually it’s out quite some times in Chinese version. It’s actually created by the Chinese and have been ported to English recently.

It added weather, Google search, a big digital clock, and a rotating news feed. The to do notes and memos are still there and it shows the number of to dos you have in your calendar instead of one in the original standby screen. Another thing I didn’t set is that it allows two rows of shortcut instead of one. I don’t really have that many shortcuts, so a row is fine for me. One row that is missing is the Share Online thing that was on the original standby screen, this is a good thing because I don’t use it and I believe many of you don’t too, another is the WLAN scanning, but you can add the WLAN wizard shortcut into the shortcut line. =)

On the original setting, the right key is actually MyFav which shows a list of your frequent used contact. I prefer having Calendar as my right shoutcut key. Pressing the red End Call keys will switch between opened background application. So let’s say you have Gravity on, you hide it, you need not to go can choose from your shortcut but instead, pressing the End Call button brings you straight into unclose app.

For the left shortcut key, it actually opens up a menu which brings to a list of shortcut again. So you actually can get a lot of shortcut with this Voyager Homescreen. One thing that bothers me is that I don’t know why my Start menu is in Chinese, maybe is the install and uninstall of different version causes this. I can read Chinese so it does fine to me. A little big translation on my Start menu, the first *key is Lock Keypad, 1. is News Feeds, 3. is Setting, 3. is More Setting and 4. is Camera.

Clicking on the weather bar brings up this 4 day weather forecast. You need to have a Internet connection for this and the rotating news feed. Setting up the weather was a little bit troublesome at first, I recommend you to use a Wifi or 3G, it just can’t detect the city when I got an EDGE connection.

Another feature that comes with it is vApp which is like a App Store built in with the vHome app. Showing some of the useful free app. This is faster than Ovi, but I didn’t really use it because I have what I want already.

Besides that, you can do smart dialing which is like on the E71. Straight dial a name and the names on the phonebook or app will show on screen. I like this feature a lot.

I also found out that the app has changed my web browser’s home screen, showing a list of shortcuts. That’s pretty good, but if I am allow to change the links of the shortcut will be nice.

One feature that is missing from the Chinese version is the social networking bar, which you can update Facebook and Twitter right from the standby screen, hopefully next update will include this.

Available for Symbian S60 v3 and it’s unsigned. So look way around to install unsigned app in your phone and have fun!

Download here.

Windows 7 is coming out soon or you have already using the leaked version or the Release Candidate? One of the changes in Windows 7 is the new startbar with Vista’s start orb and list of opened program thumbnail. I am not on Windows 7 but I’ve just found a way to have the start bar on my Vista.

It’s ViGlance by Lee-Soft. It grouped your programs of the same thumbnail into one and there’s live preview too. However, navigating around the thumbnail is a little bit slow and sometimes, you may miss some of your flashing IM conversation window like I do.

Easy to install too, download the program and run it. Then you got your Windows 7 startbar on your XP/Vista.

Download ViGlance and enjoy.

I thought of Lifeblog was cool. When I try to download Lifeblog software from Nokia’s site, it had turned into Nokia Photos. It only sync your phone’s photo and video and then organize it in a timeline view. The problem is it doesn’t sync well, I always get an error on the computer and also on the phone. It just don’t work.

As for the original Nokia Lifeblog (I downloaded it on some archive site) which I believe Nokia has discontinued developing it, it will sync your messages, text, notes, photos and videos and arrange it in a timeline. It’s more like a a backup and a phone log. However it also can’t sync and it makes my phone slow.

Perhaps I got too many things on my phone? I don’t think so. I have been trying for so many solution, reinstall program, refresh Lifeblog on the phone, restart my PC, restart my connection, restart my phone but none of them helps. So in the end, I uninstalled Nokia Lifeblog and also Nokia Photos, forget about Lifeblog.

I want to use Lifeblog to backup my text message into my computer so I can view it when I need to. I can choose export all text messages into my computer via PC Suite in *.csv file but then little problem is it can’t read my Chinese messages. That’s the problem of my log being not complete.

Just forget about this program and wait until Nokia announce support for it. It sucks at the moment. It could be a good software but then not many Nokia users use it.

Microsoft just released Windows 7 RC1 for another trial testing lately before officially releasing of this new OS. I saw some cute and cool wallpaper that is from the Windows 7 RC1, after some Googling, I found it. Just changed my new desktop wallpaper to one of the cartoonish colourful wallpaper which is from the Windows 7 RC1.

I can say that, the Windows 7 wallpaper is pretty.

Link: Windows 7 RC1 Wallpapers. Thanks to the uploader for uploading the wallpaper. =)