Skinner

When it comes to customizing the appearance of applications users have at their disposal the enhancements provided by the software developer or those created by other users and made public so that the entire community can benefit from them.

Instant messenger applications are also included in this category and because they are widely used there are numerous themes or skins that users can download and use on their home computers. Skinner is a utility that aims to facilitate this process and it is meant to work with earlier versions of Windows and MSN Messenger.

The program is supposed to download automatically a list with the most recent skins and allow the user to choose the one to use inside their messenger. However, if the online checking and transferring function is not available, Skiner is equipped with the necessary means of allowing users to manually install the enhancements.

Since the tool recognizes GIF images, it is quite easy to use some personal pictures as backgrounds for Windows and MSN Messenger. The procedure could hardly be simpler because all one has to do is click on the corresponding function from the 'Options' menu and browse to the location where the desired image is stored and select the file.

There is also an instant preview feature built-in Skinner which makes it possible for everyone to see how the chosen image will actually look like when it is being used as background for the chat application. Removing a skin in use is also a very easy thing to do since from the same 'Options' menu users can choose the 'Delete Skin' function and have done with it.