Exporting Contacts from Outlook to Windows Live Messenger

o0joecool0o — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:41:38 +0000

Well it seems I had a little issue crop up this week and I thought I would share it with you. I began getting messages from some friends on Windows Live Messenger stating that I had been asking them to purchase diet pills! I thought “how can I have a virus? I don’t click on anything strange” Well turns out somehow they had gotten my password for live messenger/hotmail. I still have no idea how they were able to do it, I do not browse shady sites or use the same password of anything that is “risky” my password was also 12 digits containing numbers and letters and capital letters. I really am not sure if it was brute force or what.

At any rate… I changed my password the messages stopped everything was ok again. (although i did start receiving 5 spam messages a day from other bots thereafter). I signed off msn and when i tried signing back in my new password didn’t work. now whether this is because the account was again hijacked using the forgot password or I just couldn’t remember my new password in its entirety I couldn’t and can no longer use my account.

So I signed up a brand new account and realized ugh all my contacts are of course gone. Luckily I had previously been using the hotmail outlook add in that lets you sync outlook with hotmail, all my contacts were still in outlook with all the IM addresses. “Hooray!” I said to myself.

I quickly began looking for a way to get these contacts out of outlook and into messenger again. I tried various things like dragging from outlook to messenger. Windows Live Messengers import options only allowed one file type “CTT”. Oddly enough Microsoft has not included a CTT export option for Outlook. So after sobbing for a few minutes about how long it was going to take me to get these contacts into live messenger one by one, I decided to write a small application to search outlook folders and export a CTT file. (A CTT file is simply an XML file under the hood in case you were wondering)

Anyway here is a link at Imperium Inc. to the export application should you need to export your contacts from outlook into windows live messenger! Enjoy! you will need the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework installed first. (I think most people have this already)

Download OutlookToCTT

No Space for spaceX

o0joecool0o — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:22:22 +0000

So I heard on twitter some commotion about a rocket launching, I went to the live webcast to see what was happening, well it was an exciting launch (the second attempt) right up to the point the camera went dead and we were informed an anomaly had taken place on the vehicle. With no further updates I logged off the site and went back to business as usual. I found out later the stage 1 engine did not seperate… That is really too bad, it doesn’t seem to phase the spacex team though and they are going full on with the next rocket. Kudos to the whole team. Even though it was a failure it was still an amazing thing to watch. Seeing the rocket soar high into the clouds and the ground become a small spec in the rear of the camera was really something. Makes you realize how small this planet really is.

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Exporting Contacts from Outlook to Windows Live Messenger

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