We all love Yahoo Messenger, it lets us connect to our friends, fans, relatives and enemies across the globe. From time to time Yahoo releases new versions of yahoo messenger, though they have taken a more than enough time for the much awaited Yahoo Messenger for Windows Vista. But the good news is that they have yet again come out with a new version with lots more features and enhancements.

What is new in Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta?

The new version comes with whole new look and feel and a hell lot of features which make it worth the upgrade. The contact section has been revamped and now it looks cool with large avatar images besides the contact details. The contact view can always be switched back to the classic compact view.

All new Skins and Emoticons

They have incorporated many new skins and emoticons, that will be fun to use. The emoticons list has been extended, though the previous emoticons have been kept intact. The new emoticons have been suggested and created by users themselves through a contest organised by Yahoo earliar this year.

Flickr Images

You can easily import and save photos from/to your flickr account. Image management was never so easy in Yahoo Messenger. The user interface looks impressive too. Flickr integration makes sharing and saving of pictures easy, conveniet and loveable.

Inline Youtube Videos

So, the next time you paste a youtube link in an IM window, the link will be parsed to an inline video, provided you switch to the beta 9 version before you log into yahoo messenger again.

Enhanced Voice Call features

You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached, it is a similar feature that Gtalk is providing from many days.

Download Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta Now.

Yahoo Tracker is a web based free to use service that lets you track the online offline activity of any yahoo id anonymously. I have talked about this service in my older posts also. Yahoo tracker is currently tracking or spying upon more than 50,000 yahoo ids that use yahoo messenger. With more than 20,000 users, there was a need to go on dedicated servers. Here is the new yahoo tracker which is fast, furious and more accurate than ever.

More Faster Yahoo Tracker

They have just moved to their own dedicated server. For those who haven’t used yahoo tracker uptill now, registeration is free and takes just a few seconds because of their cool easy to use ajax interface. Also their is no email activation. You can track on upto 12 yahoo ids with one account. But, if you want to track on more than 12 ids, you can always open a second account.

Start tracking Yahoo ids for free

Register here on yahoo tracker for free, and start tracking on Yahoo Messenger Ids.

Its been quite a few months now when Yahoo Tracker was launched. It has seen an overwhelming response drom the users since then. For those who dont know about yahoo tracker.
Yahoo Tracker is a free web based tool that can be used to keep track on your yahoo messenger buddies in last 24 hours. You need not download any software for that, because yahoo tracker is a web based service so you just need to have a browser with javascript support.
After the success of yahoo tracker, AIM tracker was launched. It has also seen a good response but due to lack of publicity and time. But still the response is over expectations. After that came MSN Tracker which is again doing good from the first day of its launch. I am in plans of launching two more similar trackers that could be used for tracking your chat buddies on ICQ messenger and Skype users. I’ll announce their launch whenever i do so.
Till then just stay tuned.

AIM Tracker tracks online offline activity of AOL messenger users in last 24 hours without letting them know about it. SpyAIM.com is web based application that means you need not download any software to use this service. The registration is free and simple. We don’t ask too many things in the registration and will take care of your own privacy. You can track upto 12 AOL messenger users with one MSN tracker account, if you want to track on more users then you can ofcourse open a new account on AIM tracker anytime with different used id.

We are accepting only first 2,000 registrations, beacause we are still in testing phases and cant handle too many users, and their support tickets. So, hurry up and register now at www.spyaim.com/register.php

AIM tracker is very similar to Yahoo Tracker and MSN tracker, we are in plans to launch skype and ICQ trackers also. Stay tuned for more updates.

Run multiple ids at the same time using this registry hack for yahoo messenger 8 version. Download and run this cool registry patch from here. So from now onwards you can be online on multiple yahoo ids at the same time. To uninstall this patch download and run this registry patch
You can also try this registry trick to run multiple instances of yahoo messenger.

Yahoo has released a security update for yahoo messenger 8.1 version for windows. You may recieve a prompt to install this latest security update. When you are prompted to do so, click on update now button to install it

Yahoo! recently identified a security issue, commonly referred to as a buffer overflow in an ActiveX control. This control is part of the Yahoo! Messenger audio conferencing code.

You must upgrade to newer version if

1. You installed your yahoo messenger before 13th march, 2007
2. You are experiencing some problems in logging in or logging out of the messenger
3. You get involuntarily logged out of the yahoo chat or IM session.

We all love Gtalk because of its simple and clean looks, though it does not have all those crappy features that other IM clients feel proud upon. You must have got tired of default yahoo messenger skin, yes me too got tired. Now you can make your messenger look like gtalk by installing yahoo messenger version of gtalk theme. This skin does not any add any new features in your messenger but it does make it look clean and beautiful.

• Download this skin from Here.
• View a screenshot

Installation Instructions:

1. Extract everything from the arhive to your Desktop.
2. Move extracted folder to C:\Program
Files\Yahoo!\Shared\Graphics ( this is the default installation folder)

Activating the skin:

1. open main Yahoo! Messenger window.
2. Click Messenger > Change Skin…
3. Select Google Talk from the dropdown menu.
4. Click OK and you are done.

Activation of the skin may depend upon the version of yahoo messenger you are using. I am using version 7 and it is working perfectly.

Gtalk Emoticon is a firefox extension that lets you add emoticon while you are chatting in an in browser chat session of google talk. Almost all the MSN and Yahoo messenger emoticons are supported. It has been successfully tested on firefox 1.5 and 2.0,

-Download Gtalk Emoticons Firefox addon from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4151/

- Or you may like to read more about this extension here

Orkut scrap book searcher is a firefox extension that adds a search box on your orkut page. With this search box you can search for any text, username or sentences in scrapbooks and in communities. User can also search for the data in the specified date range. Help box below the search box will help you in understanding all its features.

Install this Firefox Addon/Extension from here
Or you can use this search box through greasemonkey plugin, the user script for the greasemonkey plugin can be installed from here

Yahoo messenger for windows vista has some cool new features, tabbed IMing being the prominent among those. With tabbed windows you can easily switch over to different chat windows. A Yahoo blog has recently reported about some hidden hacks inside the current version of yahoo messenger. That means you can enjoy the features of windows vista version of messenger in your current version that is yahoo messenger 8.1.
You can download this Tabbed Im hack for your version 8.1 from here or you may like to read some more about this hack on wacky b forums.

- This works only in windows xp.
- It gives you Sound alerts on new messages
- Enables Tabbed IMing when this hack is turned on.
- Easy switching between various IM windows.

Happy Yahoo!  IMing.

Wumpus Game : Invite wumpus.game@gmail.com from your google talk. If your invitation is accepted, you can play a text based game. It is an easter egg game.

Line Breaks : Hold down shift and press enter to give a line break in the gtalk IM window. In this way you can write your message in multiple paragraphs.

Font Size : Hold down ctrl key and move your scroll button (mouse) up or down to change the font size in the message.

Bold Text : Use asterix before and after the text to make it bold. Like *hello* will make it hello.

Italic Text : Use underscores before and after the text to make it italic. Like _hello_ will make it hello.

Invitation Tips : You don’t need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend, you can simply ignore it, the request will go away.

Do you know ?

A message in the google talk can be as long as 32767 characters long.

I’ll add some more tips and tricks on google talk as soon as they come my way.

With every new version, Yahoo! Messenger seems to be using more and more memory than the previous versions. Following are the tips that can be helpful in reducing RAM storage of yahoo messenger which inturn will make it faster.

Uninstall Plugins : Uninstall plugins from the plugin manager. To do so goto Actions->choose a plugin and then click the ‘My Plugins’ tab. Click stop button and then click uninstall to remove that particular plugin.

Classic Skin : Switch to classic skin of Yahoo messenger, messenger working in classic skin consumes less memory and makes it faster. To do so goto ‘Messenger->Change skin’ and then select the classic skin.

Haven’t you always wanted to save those video files on Youtube / Google videos and metacafe?
It’s truly boring/tiring to save those url’s for your favourite videos, and everytime copy-pasting it to see them.

Here’s an easy way to get out of the loop and start saving the video streams into your hard disk.

Install this small firefox extension

DOWNLOAD THE FIREFOX EXTENSION HERE

You also need a FLV player
FLV Player

:)

YahELite is a full featured Yahoo chat client written in ‘C’. It loads quickly, runs fast and is considerate of your computers resources. Because YahELite uses the minimal amount of DLLs, you get much less lag and smoother scrolling. YahELite uses very little RAM to run, and minimal system resources, typically less than 2 MB of RAM. Other chat clients based on Visual Basic, Java or HTML need more than 12 MegaBytes just to start.

You can download YahElite from http://www.yahelite.org

Yah^ELite protects you from ‘boot codes’, ‘text floods’, ‘unwanted PMs’, ’sound bombs’, ’spam’ and other mischief.

The latest version of firefox has been released and is available for public download at their ftp site:-

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org

it has a great interface (even the default theme looks good) and has an integrated spell check. though it does not support all the extensions from 1.5.0.7, they will be updated soon. The tabbing has been enhanced a bit. Mozilla firefox 2 is fast, more secured. I have experienced that it is consuming a little more RAM than its old versions. Aneways, it is okay to have great internet experience at the expense of a bit more resources.

You can install Yahoo messenger 8 from yahoo, but yahoo forces you in such a way that you need to download a small setup file, which does the live streaming installation. It is really hard to install yahoo mesenger in such a way for dial up users, all the data goes when disconnection occurs.

Now, you can download the full standalone installer from yahoo itself from http://download.yahoo.com/dl/msgr8/us/ymsgr8us.exe

Download the above setup file from yahoo (10mb+), and install it following the so given instructions.

You can check if your yahoo buddy is invisible to you or not. Just install and activate this small useful plugin

• Yahoo messenger invisible status plugin By Sahil

The plugin will be unzipped in your c:/programfiles/yahoo/ messenger/plugins/

Please unzip in different directory if your yahoo messenger’s installation directory is different, but it works in most of the cases. You can activate it by clicking “action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

Yahoo Tracker - MySpyTool.com
Now you can track 12 Yahoo ids at the same time by using yahoo tracker, yahoo trakker is a web based software which tracks the online offline activity of messenger users in previous 24 hours, data gets updated automatically after every 10 minutes. Read more about Yahoo Tracker here at http://www.MySpyTool.com

If you are a user of mozilla firefox, then you must have experienced that it takes too much time in startup. Now you can make your firefox to open “instantly” by using this small peice of software which is named Firefox Preloader. It loads parts of Mozilla Firefox into main memory before it is used, it improves the speed of the startup time.

Click here to download Firefox Preloader

It is really worth a try.