Finally, 2007 is here! This new year begins for me in a rather peculiar way. There’s just too many things to do behind the scene and it leaves me with almost no time for other things like the forums. But don’t worry, even if I don’t reply to your posts or emails, I still read most of them, it’s just that I sometimes feel overwhelmed with what’s happening around the software. For instance, the daily install count jumped to about 230,000 a day since last month, that’s about 5 installs every 2 seconds, 24 hours a day.

Anyway, the reason for this news post is first and foremost to announce the winners of the scripting contest. I honestly have to say that choosing 9 scripts over the 120 received during the contest was very difficult. It feels like a lot of other very good scripts were left behind but well, they can still all be downloaded from the online database and every developer wins the special contest shirt too :). Here is the list of winners:

Full featured scripts (big scripts):

• 1st Prize - Screenshot Sender
• 2nd Prize - Music Now Playing
• 3rd Prize - UNeed Script

Simple yet useful scripts (small scripts):

• 1st Prize - SendTo
• 2nd Prize - ReadThis
• 3rd Prize - WLM Preview Box

Most original scripts:

• 1st Prize - Stickynotes
• 2nd Prize - YouTube Launcher
• 3rd Prize - Plus Mapper

All these scripts will be included in the next special release of Messenger Plus! Live, meanwhile, I strongly encourage all of you to give them a try. And for those of you who are not familiar with scripts, do not hesitate to browse the database and download the scripts that look good to you. Installation is fast and easy for all the scripts and they can be disabled/uninstalled in a snap from the Preferences window of Messenger Plus!. All the scripts have one thing in common: they all add something to your Messenger’s experience so go ahead and try them!