May 28, 2009 on 3:44 pm | In Mac version | 63 Comments
As promised, we’ve released a new build of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta (178870). This latest build fixes the issues with auto log-in and chat room crashes that were occurring for users who had upgraded to Mac OSX 10.5.7.
Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac Beta 3.0
Thanks for your patience while we worked out the bugs.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
May 27, 2009 on 1:04 pm | In 9.0 version | 29 Comments
I’m pretty mouse dependent but there are a few keyboard shortcuts in Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 that I’ve added to my everyday computing life. When I’m in a conversation, these are a few of the ones I find especially time-saving:
F2 (timestamps): This will show or hide timestamps in your IM conversation. I find this helpful when I get back to my desk and a new message window is sitting there from a friend. I can’t always tell when they wrote me, so I just press F2 to see the timestamp on their message. Hit it again and the timestamps vanish.
F3 (recent messages): This is equivalent to clicking the “Recent messages” link in the IM window. It will expand to show the last conversation you had with that contact. I use this a lot to refer back to what we were discussing without having to go into my full archive (Contacts > Message Archive in the main Messenger window).
F7 (display images): Sometimes when I start an IM to a friend, our display images are missing. Rather than having to click the “Open/close display images” button in the IM window, I just hit F7 to bring them up. Hit it again to hide them.
Up/down arrows (prev/next message): This one I discovered completely by accident and you may have too. When you’re typing in the message box of an IM window, use the up arrow on your keyboard to move to the previous message you sent. Hit it repeatedly to keep working your way back through your messages; hit the down arrow to work back in the other direction.
To try it out, open an IM window, place your cursor in the message area, and hit the Up arrow on your keyboard. I use this one when I need to resend a message (usually because my friend was so busy responding to an earlier topic or just missed what I wrote). So once I arrow to the one I want, I just click Send (or Enter on my keyboard) to send it again.
What shortcuts or tricks do you use the most in Yahoo! Messenger?
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
May 22, 2009 on 3:02 pm | In Mac version, iphone | 23 Comments
For those of you having issues with the latest Mac OS X update (10.5.7) and Yahoo! Messenger for Mac, help is on the way.
We’ve identified the problems causing the chat room crash and the sign-in problem* (see potential workaround below), and will be releasing those fixes in a new build soon. So stay tuned to the blog; we’ll let you know as soon it’s available. Thanks for your patience.
On an Apple-related note, we’re smiling this week because we hit the 1 million download mark for our Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone app. Thanks to all of our users for giving it a try and providing their feedback. We really appreciate it.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
* Here’s a workaround if you are having trouble signing in since you updated to 10.5.7 (and are using a “behind the firewall” connection setting): Try disabling auto-login. To do that, click on the Yahoo! Messenger menu, select “Preferences”, then click on the “General” tab. Uncheck the box that says “Automatically start Yahoo! Messenger”. Quit Yahoo! Messenger completely and relaunch it again. If this fixes the issue, please hold off on turning auto-login back on until we release the new build.
May 20, 2009 on 11:54 am | In News | 12 Comments
Yay! We received a CNET WebWare 100 Award this week in the Communication category. Our fellow Yahoos at Flickr also received one in the Photo and Video category, and Yahoo! received one for Search and Reference.
Congratulations to all the Webware 100 Winners and thanks to CNET readers for voting for us!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
May 19, 2009 on 5:00 am | In News | Add a Comment
Today, May 19, from 3pm to 4pm Pacific Time, (calculate for your time zone) we will be performing server maintenance on the chat rooms in Yahoo! Messenger.
During this time the chat rooms will be unavailable and if you are in a room when the maintenance begins, you will be disconnected.
We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience.
UPDATE: 3:45PM PST This maintenance is now complete. Thanks
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
