Custom userheads, LJ Messenger, m.livejournal.com

If you're interested in shifting personas, custom userheads can jumpstart your transformation. Whether you feel like Batman, Mickey, or a ponytailed lass, you can purchase a custom userhead for 199 LJ Tokens or a $1.99 payment in the LiveJournal Gift Shop for yourself or for another user and enjoy a full year of use. Once you stock up, you can switch to another userhead whenever you like by visiting your Edit Profile page. Please be aware that whenever you switch, all of your posts (past and present) will be display your currently selected userhead. A final note: If you recently enabled Cyrillic services to purchase custom userheads, you can opt out and retain full access to this feature.

After reviewing our stats, we've decided to cancel MSN LJ Messenger Service, as of September 28, 2010, due to lack of use. If you created a Live ID with MSN Messenger, it will continue to work with the desktop client and other services, but it will no longer work on LiveJournal. For those of you who used this service, we recommend you try out LJ Talk (also known as Jabber) to chat with your LiveJournal friends and post to your journal. We'll be discussing this feature in today's "Did you know...?" tip below.

• m.livejournal.com: We've relaunched m.livejournal.com. We hope you'll let us know what you think. Please post your comments and suggestions to this post in lj_feedback.
• Comment log-in: If you enter your username and password to comment on a post, you will automatically remain logged into LiveJournal after you finish posting the comment.
• Spam: We're aware that we've been hit by an unusual amount of spam this past week, which we're currently investigating. We hope you'll help us out by clicking the 'Report spam' checkbox whenever you delete a post.
• LJ_Releases: For detailed updates and technical information on LiveJournal releases, check out lj_releases.

• Select "Jabber" or "XMPP" as the type/protocol in your IM client's menu.
• If you're prompted to provide a "JID," "Jabber ID," or"Jabber Address", use "YourUsername@livejournal.com."
• If you're asked for both "Username" and "Server", use "YourUsername" and "livejournal.com."
• When asked for a password, enter your LiveJournal password.
• If you're asked for an optional "Connect Address" or "Alternate Connect Address," you can leave the fields blank. It will default to "livejournal.com," which is correct.
• If asked for "Old style SSL," turn that off.
• The port number is 5222.

Once you set up LJ Talk, any LiveJournal friend who has enabled LJ Talk will be automatically added to your contact list. You can also use this feature to post to your journal. To post an entry, address a message to "frank@bot.services.livejournal.com" to Frank with the text "post: Your entry here." To add a subject line, use "post: [Subject line] Your entry here." For additional information, check out this FAQ.

If you have other favorite features that you'd like us to write about, please let us know in the comments below. We'll be back next week with another fun tip.

Congrats to libra_dragon, who won our 38th lj_photophile poll. Click here to vote for the next photo of the week. We also invite you to vote in our themed poll on the subject of "Delicious" this week. FYI: We pick entries for the polls based on a combination of comments, +1 ratings, and staff input. Winners of both polls receive 500 LJ Tokens. We thank you for sharing your talent with the global LiveJournal community.