Many of you may or may not know about this TV (Cable) channel called 'TechTV' (http://www.techtv.com/techtv/index.html/). Any way, I was watching it today and I had the most awesome of awesome brainwaves; lets try get Messenger Plus! onto TechTV. I think it would fit perfectly and would be a great form of publicity to the Messenger Plus! and the community.

Anyway, just an idea.

Peace out, ecko_complex.

http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/freefile/story/...30,3407633,00.html

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Messenger Plus! Extension 1.42b

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Plus version 2 is indeed a very different beast to the old version 1. Forgive me for saying this Patchou, but version 2 seems like a piece of professional software, whereas the older versions lacked that final bit of polish.

It has evolved now into what I deem as essential software. Its something I put on my machine first, and it will certainly be the last off, if at all. I wish that more people could share the joy that is Plus, so how do we get it on TechTV?

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so how do we get it on TechTV?

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Plus version 2 is indeed a very different beast to the old version 1

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I'll see what I can do -- I'll contact Patchou and ask for permission, the usual stuff

send Cat or Sarah an email (cat@techtv.com or sarah@techtv.com) it depends if u want it on Call for Help or THe screen savers. call for help is at 3pmEST/noon PST and TSS is 7pmEST/4pmPST. take ur pick . i've been thinking about this for a while..

i really need to get out more

I've been thinking about adverts and media and etc too..just never gotten around to asking Patchou, I'm always too busy or get sidetracked

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Originally posted by ecko_complex
Many of you may or may not know about this TV (Cable) channel called 'TechTV'

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they actually have streaming video of all their segment soits no effort on our part

woah good idea, would be cool... Messenger Plus!'s next step: TELEVISION!

Thank you for your efforts.. I still have the tape of when Plus! 1.4 was presented on TechTV a year ago

Whoa didn't know 1.4 was on TechTV .

there was a link in one of the posts in the first page.....

so PAtchou, u gonna ask them about it?? i need to know if i have to leave work early or not

You can send them emails yourselves you know

Lol i am going to ive also goiing to submit you to PC Plus

ya, but i figured it'd be better for the developer to ask them, as opposed to some random guy...

Well if people recomened the software its more likely as its been recomened not put forward by the developer.

Sounds like blowing your own trumpet if ya get what i mean

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Originally posted by reisyboy
Well if people recomened the software its more likely as its been recomened not put forward by the developer.

Sounds like blowing your own trumpet if ya get what i mean

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So I am guessing Patchou that you are happy for us to promote your software, obviously being sensible about it?

I guess we could write to a few websites and such. I know computer magazines sometimes have a downloads section.

I'd love to see Plus become as popular as Trillian. Only difference being, Plus is free and is actually good

whats trillian?

Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger. It supports docking, multiline edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, global away/invisible features, and a unified contact list. It has a direct connection for AIM, support for user profiles, complete type formatting, buddy icons, proxy support, emotisounds, encrypted instant messaging to ICQ and AIM, AIM group chats, and shell extensions for file transfers.

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Originally posted by Tochjo
Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger. It supports docking, multiline edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging, global away/invisible features, and a unified contact list. It has a direct connection for AIM, support for user profiles, complete type formatting, buddy icons, proxy support, emotisounds, encrypted instant messaging to ICQ and AIM, AIM group chats, and shell extensions for file transfers.

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just to tell you all, i sent out a message to Cat Shwartz and Sarah Lane of TechTV fame asking them to consider Plus! as a free file/Download of the day heres the basic body of the message i sent to Cat (the one to sarah wan't much different, just changed a little)

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Cat-- first off, I love the show, and read your blog regularly. its really interesting. keep up the good work. but i have a suygestion for a free file that adds alot of functionality to the MSM Messenger Client. an earlier version was featured on call for help maybe a year ago, when Chris was still the host, but was away at comdex (last aired 11/18, which i assume is 2002). the link to the old story: http://www.techtv.com/callforhelp/freefile/story/...30,3407633,00.html but it has come  A LONG way since then, and has turned into a highquality product. i now has the ability to add colors to an IM, and has Boos Protection, Instant Lock, Personalized Status, quicktext, a quickicons panel that lets the user have as many Custom emoticons listed as they would like, sound comands that play a sound on both ends of the chat, quick recall a la IRC, custom Naming of contacts, and so many more features that i dont have time to mention in this email. i think it would make a great Free File of the day. it does have an optional sponsor program (you have to explicitly tell it to install the sponsor), which is a VERY watered down version of LOP.com. the sponsor can be uninstalled by simply uninstalling Plus!, and then Plus! can be reinstalled without the sponsor. it also has a very good support forum at http://shoutbox.menthix.net (i'm a member). the offiecial site of Plus is http://www.msgplus.net, and the author (Patchou) can be contacted at mplus@patchou.com. i'm also gonna send this to Sarah, so you two can fight over which show it'll be on

hope you like the program. from all of us in the messenger Plus! community, we hope you like the program

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hope it works

RB off to email some mags

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Originally posted by reisyboy
hope it works

RB off to email some mags

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ya. i mean, i sent it to two shows and told the girls to fight it out (i wish i could see THAT cat fight[no pun intended]). it shud be on at least one of them!!!

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Originally posted by Guido
we should have a section in msgplus.net like mess.be (used to) had with pictures from magazines where msgplus appears, links to rare download sites (localized ones, for examples), reviews, etc. What u think? Something like an Reviews & Awards page. Hopefully, techtv could be there too

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Hmmm, make sure you tell us as soon as she replies bach_m .

Hopefully we can start a whole chain of press attention on Messenger Plus . Ill e-mail the magazine over here tonight.

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Originally posted by Guido
we should have a section in msgplus.net like mess.be (used to) had with pictures from magazines where msgplus appears, links to rare download sites (localized ones, for examples), reviews, etc. What u think? Something like an Reviews & Awards page. Hopefully, techtv could be there too

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Originally posted by ecko_complex
Hmmm, make sure you tell us as soon as she replies bach_m .

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