Comments on: Block Ads in AIM 6.0

By: Luke Maciak

Luke Maciak — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:48:17 +0000

@Chris Wellons: I agree, but at the time I was pressured by lusers to adopt their ways. These days lusers tend to feed all their pictures directly from their camera into their Facebook accounts so I encounter less of these “let me send you that picture real quick over IM” issues. :P

Oh and most chatting is done over Facebook anyway.

Hence, I don’t even know how the most recent incarnation of AIM looks like.

By: Chris Wellons

Chris Wellons — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:00:07 +0000

Using IM to … transfer files? That’s what lusers do! That’s what ssh, ftp, or http is for.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 20:54:55 +0000

I love Gaim, but it has one drawback – the file transfer feature does not work properly. So I was peer pressured into using the official client.

By: Craig Betts

Craig Betts — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:28:54 +0000

Feel the power of GAIM . . . pure open-source power!

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:27:12 +0000

Yep – it can be done. You might need to use the ResourceHacker tool to edit the DLL files, because Microsoft started circumventing the HOSTS file in the most recent versions.

Here are some links that might help you:

http://www.matthijs.net/blog/categories/MSN

http://www.sfu.ca/~vwchu/msnadblockv8.html

I haven’t verified that this works, because I don’t really use MSN. But I used ResourceHacker before, and it is a great tool.

By: Matt`

Matt` — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:10:05 +0000

Any way known to get rid of the banner ad at the bottom of MSN’s window?