Last week I was alerted of a tip that would make your personal message in MSN/ Windows Live Messenger significantly bigger on your contacts end. It was true and yesterday I tried it out on several on my contacts, and by the time I've started to write up this news post, a fair few of them have done the same.



This hack is a simple unicode exploit in the personal message parser used in Messenger. This does not affect Messenger for Mac, and I believe it won't 3rd party clients as it requires emoticons to be rendered within the personal message itself. Have a look at what we've created below:



How can I do it?

It's really simple. Download this Rich Text Format file, edit the text, emoticons and whatever else within it (excluding the odd characters) and paste it into your personal message. Your contacts should see the change on their contact list (but you won't).

The reason you have to download the RTF file is because most web browsers won't render the characters that make your personal message so big correctly. Don't worry it's 100% safe.