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.

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.

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.

Yahoo messenger is offering free calls to india during the holi festivals. The service is being offered to all the Yahoo Phone-out subscribers. Holi is an annual traditional festival of india, it is also known as “The Festival of Colors”.

Click this image to see the revised rates:

Usual rates will be reduced to 4.99¢ during the Holi season. Taxes and additional fees may apply. A new rate scheme is expected to come after Holi .. so watch out and enjoy.

For more details visit http://voice.yahoo.com/holi

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.

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.

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

You can run multiple yahoo messenger with different ids at the same time. Just follow the steps.

Download this file - A plug-in 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.

• Click start then run
• Write regedit, press enter
• Goto “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager\Test”
• Create a DWORD registry value named “Plural” by right clicking the right hand side window.
• Double click the new DWORD entry and set the value to 1

Now you remain online with two or more different yahoo ids at the same time.

How to use this plugin ?

This is a very useful plugin. You can install it by clicking
“action” and then “load test plugin” in your yahoo messenger’s main window.

With this plugin you can easily check whether someone is invisible to you or not.

If you use Gaim messenger, then check this out :

Open

C:\Documents and Settings\’user’\Application Data\.gaim

or

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\.gaim (in most of the cases)

There are two files named prefs.xml & accounts.xml

Right click the accounts.xml file and open it with notepad or any other text editor. Here you will easily find your usernames & passwords in simple text. So, never share these two files with anyone.

This is not a hack, it is just a cool simple thing. I found it accidently, when i was sending some HTML codes to my friend. He didn’t know anything about HTML, so i was giving him very basics of the code. I started with < html>…then < body>, everything was going alright until I wrote the first line after < body> tag, I wrote < b>hello< /b> world ( < b>…< /b> are used in HTML to make text bold..) when I pressed send button, I was amazed to see that it was showing hello world instead of < b>hello< /b> world. Then i understood that yahoo messenger is capable of understanding HTML tags ( although later i found that it supports only very few of these tags). It supports < i>..< /i> and < u>..< /u> also

Fun Part

Now coming to its funnier side. Can you send a blank message to your buddy?..yes you can by using spacebar. But how about sending a big blank message. If you simply press send (or enter) without writing anything in the text box, Yahoo messenger will not except that, and thus nothing will happen. But if you write something like < b>< /b> (nothing between HTML tags) your messenger would except that as a message, but that message would not have anything in it because we haven’t write anything between those tags and yahoo messenger will try to make that that text bold ( which is not there in reality ). So you can puzzle your yahoo buddies with this simple trick

Yahoo Messenger Tips

No need to close the html tags. < b>< /b> …or simply < b> alone will do the same thing.

Try this trick also

1. Open your notepad
2. Write < b> ( or any of the three tags )
3. Press enter many times
4. Write < /b>
5. Right click in notepad and then click select all
6. Copy it
7. Paste in your Yahoo messenger’s IM window
8. Send
The above steps would make things worst for your buddy. It will show a big blank space in place of messages.

More fun

This trick also works in orkut, but in orkut you have to use [b] and [/b] in place of < b> and < /b>, and you have to close your formatting tags in orkut ( unlike in yahoo messenger ) so in orkut open scrap book of your buddy write [b] press as many enters as you can, and then simply close the tags by writing [/b]. It will show a very big blank space inn your buddies scrap book. Your friend might think that he has lost all his scraps and there’s something wrong with his account. Things to do: I was too lazy to check this trick in other messengers like google talk and msn messenger. Please do it on your own and let me know if it works.

~EnJoY~