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Happy Holidays with Yahoo! Messenger

December 17, 2008 on 10:15 am | In 9.0 version, Avatars, Fun Stuff, Pingbox | 4 Comments

December is already halfway done so time is running out to send your holiday greetings to your Yahoo! Messenger friends. Here’s a round-up of the fun things you can do:

Flickr IMVironment: Get in the winter spirit
Put some seasonal photos into your IM background with the Flickr IMV. It will open automatically to pictures from December, full of snowy landscapes and other winter favorites. Try it now with a friend or preview it yourself. (Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 only).

Holiday audibles
We’ve brought back the “Holiday” and “Holiday Hints” audibles. Send a mistletoe kiss to your sweetie or send a not-so-gentle reminder that you want to find a MP3 player under the tree this year. (Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 only)

Emoticarolers
Pick the Yahoo! Messenger Emoticarolers for your group, customize the lyrics to a favorite tune like “Jingle Bells” or “Deck the Halls”, and then send your e-card off to the digital doorsteps of your friends and family.

Pingbox holiday themes
Check out the new background themes in the Pingbox studio. If you’re already hosting a Pingbox on your website or social network profile, just edit its settings in the studio and your Pingbox will automatically get updated.

Elf your Avatar (or a friend’s)
Dress up your Avatar with holiday cheer for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s. Or install the Yahoo! Avatars Makeover plug-in to create a new Avatar for your friends (plug-in for Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 only).

Happy Holidays!

Sarah Bacon
Product Manager

P.S. – In addition to all these Messenger holiday goodies, there’s also a Yahoo! holiday e-card called “Frosty’s Scrapbook”. Choose a background (or upload your own photo) and then drag and drop fun objects into your card to create your holiday scrapbook greeting.

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  1. I’m still wary about installing YM 9.0 unless I’m sure it’s newer than 9.0.0.2034. The download site makes no mention of the exact version. The last time I tried to install YM, which was about a week ago, the installation process hung and I couldn’t get to uninstall it. I need all the reassurance I could get before I even attempt to download the main file.

    Comment by Etits — December 17, 2008 #

  2. Hi Etits,

    The version available for download is mentioned on the download page below the text in Step 1. Our current version of 9.0 is 9.0.0.2034.

    http://messenger.yahoo.com/download/win

    Sarah Bacon

    Comment by Administrator — December 17, 2008 #

  3. Sarah Bacon are you’s going to Releasing a new build for Christmas with fixing bugs that’s in 9.0 that need fixed still i think that would be a nice Gift from you’s anyways keep up the good work

    Comment by Cisco — December 17, 2008 #

  4. where is the holiday audible?

    Comment by widi — March 11, 2009 #

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