So what has been happening?

I'm half way through on my repeat of year 2 at university and because of some stress issues, I've missed out on two main coding assignments (php and actionscript 3.0) needless to say I'll be resitting those two modules during the summer holidays (but if I work on them slowly now then I may not have to do them during the holidays and just hand them in when ready). Sam you've got to start working again! or you'll never graduate from university. Anyway that's a little update on what's been happening with me during the past year. Also I have writen a little review on Heavy Rain, check it out :D.

Update yall

The last time i posted on here was march time right? well update now I'm repeating the second year at the uni I go to. My tutor understands as well so thats good :D... dont think there's anything else to say about it really... nope not really haha.

sam out

New msn

Ever since I was in secondary school, msn (or windows messenger) has been the main reason as to why I would kick off someone from the house computer for. It has been the cheapest way to talk to people (with out thinking about the price of net connection haha), and it is still widely used today. From a simple online chat program were you can talk to people you have on your friends list, it has changed greatly since then.

The latest version of this program has had a dramatic new look to it, as you can see with the image opposite there has been a new cleaner look added to the sign in page when the program starts and signing in doesn't take to long as well (which is a good thing). The main area where the contacts are kept has had a whole new look added to it and has changed allot. As you can see there are no more tabs to the left hand side that link of to other sites such as ebay or facebook, as they are now on the bottom of the page which i didnt see at first. The contact groups have all been kept the same as well so thats good. The status of fellow users has been changed from little msn icons to just different coloured squares which is different and would give a clearer understanding of what a user is up to (i.e. if they are online, away etc.). At the top there are no tabs to change quickly now (like in most programs), it is on the right hand side of the main area page (show menu icon), which I found to be not so helpful as i was used to it being at the top left corner. At the bottom of the main area page there is now a live feed of what people have changed (like with facebooks status change), on they're messenger space (seriously why would I need to know?). A new feature of this page is you can change the background image and colour style of it, making it more personal is good but I dont really think we need to have this really. This is just a small review of the main page are and the layout, now lets move onto the actual chat pages.

The chating area has changed as well as the display pictures are no longer on the right hand side they are on the left hand side which is okay I guess, but why change the positioning of somthing that allot of people are used to. About the display picture, yes finally animated gifs can be used as display pictures and work as well (but on the older version they would look static (not move)) which is pritty goog because I've wanted this for a good while but never thought it would happen (well it did now so I'll shut up about it). Just like the previous version of MSN the background can be changed but only the text area can be changed. With the changing of backgrounds "dynamic" backgrounds can be used as well which are animated backgrounds, but not animated gif files, I tested with an animated gif file and it shows each individual frame within the file itself. All the other features are still there such as the nudge, send audio clip, send file and send wink. So over all what has really changed about this is the fact that only the background image for were the text apears can be changed and the placing of the display pic really, nothing else to say on that.

One thing I noticed during the time of writing this review is that there is no sound to alert you, that someone has singed online onto MSN, maybe because it seem to be anouying, but still it means im cheacking if someone is online now or not.

Overall the latest version of MSN is good, with the whole making it more personal by making you customise it more, but in the end nothing new has really been changed onit, just the changing of the layout itself, making it more customizable and adding animated gifs as a display picture's. I think this would work better on the latest OS of windows, as there has been more fancier fading effects added to the program so it would slow down if it was used on a computer that wasnt up to scratch. In the end its still a nice program to use when chatting to friends etc. I just think this update wasnt really worth it, to be honest unless you want a new look to msn keep to the previous version of the program. Its not really worth updateing for.

yay!

Well tomorrow im officially old to some of my friends haha 20 isnt old it just means your life as a teenager is finally over huzah! i say :D
Connors most likely on his way down now as i type this... so not long to go until i see him again XD...
and i nice week off from work how lucky haha

In regard to the last post (again)

Put it this way a cryed like a baby when I had these ;_; love you Connor.

In other news should I start a php tutorial? lmao

regarding the last post...

loads of new things to do yay! :3 cant wait to start on my telling the story assingment XD... and valintines is on its way as well wooooooooooo! wonder what connor's got planned for me lmao... all he's told me to do is stay out in my house on the 12th of this month... ooooooo am i gona get a surprise visit then XD

yayness!

YES! my Group assignment is finally complete :D the presentation went good as well XD as the lecturers liked it well :D so hopefully now its back to normality from now on ^^