Shoutbox

I use Mess patch for the main patching bulk (I always used to use apatch and still highly respect it/use it) as it has a few nice options for windows live messenger which aren't in apatch (like adding and moving buttons + re-colouring the dashboard/conversation window to make it darker/match the contact list) so I use messpatch for most of it, then I apply the shorten status info patch in apatch, as it works on top of messpatch that way.

but yes both similar, messpatch is annoying to get a hold of (mess.be download database is a bugger at best of times, apatch has nice preview patch feature/screenshots built into the installer, also iirc Mess patch is a larger download and has had troubles on some releases launching/patching sometimes, but i believe these issues are fixed now)