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Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Messenger
Yahoo! Messenger Protocol
Yahoo!
Messenger |
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Yahoo! Messenger 7.0.0.426
Contact List under Windows |
Maintainer: |
Yahoo! |
Latest release: |
7.0.2.120 /
December 23, 2005 |
OS: |
Windows 98/Me, 2000, and XP, Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, Unix |
Genre: |
Instant Messenger |
License: |
Proprietary |
Website: |
messenger.yahoo.com |
Yahoo! Messenger is a popular
instant messaging client and protocol provided by
Yahoo!. Yahoo!
Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a
generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as
Yahoo!
Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.
Yahoo Instant Messenger also includes a security feature which allows the user
to be "invisible" to whomever they choose; however, this feature is easily
bypassed by using
Buddy Spy, a free third party application.
In addition to instant messaging features similar to those offered by
ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger, it also offers (on the Windows operating system) some
unique
features such as: IMVironments (customizing the look of Instant Message
windows) and Custom Status Messages. Another recently added feature is
customized avatars. However, none of these features are available on other
platforms, such as Mac OS X.
Yahoo! Messenger 2.5.3 for Mac offers drastically fewer features than the
Windows release, has not been updated in several years. The current version has
been reported to be quite buggy when run on the latest version of
Mac OS X, and it is very primitive when compared to other messenging
applications for Macintosh. Yahoo! reports that there is no timeline set for the
release of any updates for the Apple Macintosh messenger. There are unconfirmed rumors however that Yahoo!
plans to respond to criticism from Mac users with a new client sometime in the
future.
Yahoo! has announced a partnership with
Microsoft to join their instant messaging networks. This would make Yahoo!
Messenger compatible with Microsoft's .NET Messenger Service. It would also make
Microsoft's MSN Messenger compatible with Yahoo!'s Network. This change is expected to take
effect in the first half of 2006.
Yahoo! Messenger allows access to Yahoo! chat rooms. They are free of charge,
although the Java-based chat room system does not work with Macintosh web
browsers.
Latest Releases
Windows
7.0.2.120 /
December 23, 2005.
Mac OS X and Mac OS 8/9
2.5.3 /
September 24, 2003
Several third-party clients exist that can connect to the Yahoo! Messenger
network, such as,
Fire, Adium, and Proteus
Unix
1.0.4
The Unix version
looks different from the Windows version.
Version 1.0.6.1 is available for
Gentoo
Linux (masked as ~x86).
Feature-rich
open
source Linux
clients are available for Yahoo Messenger such as
gyach.
Feature & Release History
Windows
- Prior Releases — Undocumented
- 7.0.0.426 —
August 8, 2005
- Renamed to "Yahoo! Messenger with Voice"
- Drag-and-drop photo sharing
- Drag-and-drop file sharing
- PC-to-PC calling
- Voicemail
- Ringtones
-
Yahoo! 360 integration
- Pop-up Contact Cards
-
Spam Reporting
- New tabs
- New
emoticons
- Archive updates
- LiveWords (Beta)
- 7.0.0.437 —
August 30, 2005
Mac
- Prior Releases - Undocumented
- 2.5.3 -
September 24, 2003
- Chat
- Webcam
- Conference chat
Resources
-
Yahoo! Messenger Plus, free plugin project
-
Queeeenofspadez, Skins for Yahoo Messenger 7
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Modernmorph.com, Yahoo Messenger Skins and Downloads
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Yahoo Nation!, Community providing polygamy patches, skins and other
cool stuff for yahoo messenger
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BuddyCheck, continuously checks a list of contacts to see which ones are
online, even if they are invisible or are using Stealth Mode.
-
Buddy Spy, Buddy Spy allows you to keep track of what Yahoo Messenger
user are doing, even if they are in Invisible Mode. The program shows if the
user is online, what chat room is used (if any) and if their web cam is
online.
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SayItBold, Allows users to send IM directly to a website (may not be a
legit site -- unknown if it is an ID farming site for SPAM)
External links
Home | Up | Buzz Log | DomainKeys | Rollyo | Yahoo! 360º | Yahoo! Calendar | Yahoo! Directory | Yahoo! Fantasy Sports | Yahoo! Games | Yahoo! Groups | Yahoo! HotJobs | Yahoo! Mail | Yahoo! Messenger | Yahoo! News | Yahoo! Personals | Yahoo! Search | Yahoo! Slurp | Yahooligans!
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