January 15, 2008 on 10:45 am | In Events, Mac version | 36 Comments
In case you’re headed to Macworld this week in San Francisco, keep an eye out for a team of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac engineers. They’ve been working hard so we thought we’d give them a chance to catch up on all things Mac. They are clad in Yahoo! Messenger for Mac t-shirts so feel free to stop one of them and catch up on the most recent features of our Mac application.
And as Mr. Jobs says, “One more thing…” - we are working hard to add voice capabilities to our next release. Stay tuned for more updates.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
November 21, 2007 on 1:40 pm | In Mac version | 91 Comments
The third update of Mac 3.0 Beta 2 (build 78326) is now available to keep you company over the holiday weekend.
There are no new features in this update but we fixed a couple of crash issues, including an update to the crash reporting for Leopard users.
We also made improvements to the sign in process when you’re behind a firewall. So if you’ve had issues in the past with signing in from the office or elsewhere with a firewall, please try installing this new update.
Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 beta 2
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
October 25, 2007 on 2:13 pm | In Mac version | 91 Comments
The second release of Mac 3.0 Beta 2 is now available, just in time for Apple’s upcoming release of Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). This new release includes:
- Improved stability and compatibility with Mac OS X Version 10.5 (Leopard)
- Some small interface improvements, including a new Show/Hide Display Images button in the IM and chat room windows
- Improved chat room layout, with the list of chatters in a left hand, scrollable panel with age/sex/location details available on hover (if the user is sharing his/her profile)
Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
September 13, 2007 on 1:44 pm | In Mac version, News | 473 Comments
Hi everyone,
Just a heads up that we’ll be upgrading the Yahoo! Messenger chat rooms this afternoon (approx. 2-5pm PST). As it’s taking place, you may encounter some instability when entering or using the chat rooms. We appreciate your patience while we complete the upgrade.
Once the upgrade is complete, you should find that the room lobby counts are more accurate and that the voice spammers you may have encountered at the launch of Captcha are no longer prevalent. In addition, we’re also introducing some changes to make Captcha more friendly for the visually impaired.
And thanks to everyone for your feedback on the new Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2 (rock on Adam!). The team is already plugging away on the next release to address some of the bugs and to add improvements to areas like the chat rooms. We’ll keep you posted!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
September 6, 2007 on 10:46 am | In Mac version | 155 Comments
It’s heeeeeeeere!
We know our Mac users have been waiting patiently for a new version of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. The wait is finally over. Please give a warm welcome to the new Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2. Download it now.
This new version includes:
Tabbed IM windows: When you have two or more conversations going on, they appear as separate tabs in a single window. Less clutter for your desktop! Plus, you can drag a tab out and make it into its own window (or drag it back in to consolidate). Tabbed conversations are a preference, so if you prefer having one window per IM conversation, you still can.
Chat rooms: Yup, the same Yahoo! chat rooms that Windows users have been using are now open to Mac users.
Message archiving: All of your IM and chat room conversations can now be archived on your computer.
Improved stability for webcam and file transfer: There were issues with these in the past version so the team did a lot of bug fixes and under-the-hood work to improve them.
More emoticons: We added in the additional emoticons that are in our other versions of Messenger, so Mac users now have them all!
Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 2
Although this latest Beta doesn’t yet offer voice calling, we’re still working on it and hope to offer it soon.
Note that this new Beta 2 version only works on Mac OSX 10.4 or later. In order to get this out sooner, we had to make a choice about which version of OSX to support. And thanks to your votes here on the blog, we had a better idea of which direction to take.
We hope you enjoy this new version!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
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