Chat Reference
Downloads You can search for emoticons by entering either the emoticon meaning or the emoticon itself. The Chat Reference widget can also be used to look up meanings of text-based emoticons. The Chat Reference Dashboard Widget allows you to look up online...
[May 2, 2008, 14:01]
Microsoft Frowned At For Smiley Patent
News The patent application, which was published by the US Patent Office on Thursday, covers selecting pixels to create an emoticon image, assigning a character sequence to these pixels and reconstructing the emoticon after transmission.
[July 22, 2005, 17:15]
Space Emoticons Pro
Downloads It is very fast and easy with Space Emoticons Pro to find emoticon or smiley from hundreds and hundreds animated emoticons. Space Emoticons Pro lets you insert animated emoticons and smileys into your e-mails and message board posts with one mouse...
[January 15, 2006, 11:31]
CustoMess
Downloads CustoMess for MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger is an automatic installer for quality MSN emoticons, MSN display pictures, conversation window backgrounds, and emoticon fonts. With a minimum of clicks, CustoMess adds your choice of custom...
[January 30, 2006, 18:46]
Emoticon Adventures
Downloads Emoticon Adventures is a free side-scrolling 2d platformer for the PC. Emoticon Adventures is freeware and suitable for players of all ages. In this game, you control an Emoticons and guide him through 10 different levels and fun and mayhem, facing...
[November 28, 2007, 16:31]
Emoticon Maker
Downloads The Emoticon Maker is a free program that allows you to make your own emoticons from pictures and graphics. It can be used to create cool new emoticons from your own pictures and animations. Making emoticons is very quick, and should not take more...
[July 2, 2008, 19:31]
Google Talk Gets Mixed Reception
Talkback Google chat doesn't need stupid graphics or 'emoticons' - get a life you spives, where do you think smiles came from ":)" .there's your emoticon! I tell you what google should have, the ability to post source code to one another like that bulleting...
[August 25, 2005, 23:14]
ICQ Emotion HotKey
Downloads You may use the default hotkey combinations, or create your own ones.Most of users don't usually feel any great inconvenience when seeking for and inserting the necessary emoticon using "point-and-click" browsing through the emoticons list.
[November 8, 2007, 3:31]
Emote Maker
Downloads The application has been under creation for over a year and has many features which you can initialize on over 100 assorted emoticon objects. Emote Maker (or EM) is an application that anyone can use to make unique, stylish, and customized emoticons.
[October 24, 2005, 0:16]
Insert Spaces Emoticon Plugin For Windows Live Writer
Downloads Insert Spaces Emoticon Plugin for Windows Live Writer was designed to allow users to select one of the many Live Spaces emoticons and put them onto your blog. You can use this plugin for any type of blog and still have the Spaces' emoticons on it.
[January 15, 2008, 12:22]
Emoticon Tournament
Downloads Here s Power Ball, where the man or emoticon in possession becomes nearly invincible. It has ten different levels, six different weapons, and four different emoticons to look like. Go loner in Free for All, or take a group of blue pals with you...
[October 19, 2005, 4:16]
Google's OpenSocial App Hacked In 45 Minutes
News A developer who uses the nickname "harmonyguy" alerted Plaxo's vice president of marketing, John McCrea, to a vulnerability in the RockYou "emoticon" application that Plaxo allowed on its platform as part of Google's OpenSocial API (application...
[November 5, 2007, 8:20]
The Internet Celebrates Its Birthday - Again
News The rediscovery, by Mike Jones who works in the Systems and Networking Research Group at Microsoft's Redmond headquarters, appeared to reveal that the emoticon was approaching its 20th birthday. According to Brian Dear, who is writing a book on the...
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
Microsoft Frowned At For Smiley Patent
Talkback You define an image on your machine and assign it to your OWN emoticon, when you type it in MSN Chat it would pull image remote. They are patenting the idea of adding a 'real time pull' to emoticons, if you can find that buried in the legaleze.
[July 26, 2005, 2:45]
Emoticon MAddness
Downloads A huge emoticon looks really mad and charges into a group of little guys. All of the emoticons have a different face and attitude as always our screen savers. Look out the big guy isn't happy. A fun screen saver for all ages.
[June 13, 2007, 13:31]
'Smiley' Turns 25
News Back in 2002, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have rediscovered what was believed to be the first known instance of an emoticon, or "smiley". Emoticons — the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails and instant messages — are 25 years old on...
[September 19, 2007, 14:50]
Microsoft Frowned At For Smiley Patent
Talkback There would be no custom emoticon unless a user created one. I hope everyone understands this is only for CUSTOM emoticons and does not effect the selection of standard emoticons, as we all know today.
[July 26, 2005, 17:52]
Microsoft Frowned At For Smiley Patent
Talkback The primary claim for the patent application (claim number 1 - the remaining claims expand on the detail in this claim) is "A method, comprising: selecting pixels to be used as an emoticon; assigning a character sequence to the pixels; and...
[July 26, 2005, 10:05]
First 'smiley' Found
News The smiley has spawned a whole range of emoticons since its appearance on a bulletin board discussion at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1982. The emoticons, as they are known, have become an important part of the worldwide online social...
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
