July 20, 2011 on 4:23 pm | In Mac version | 45 Comments
If you’re purchasing a shiny new Macbook with the latest OSX Lion just released you’ll find a seamless integration with some of your favorite Yahoo! products. On OSX Lion, the first time you open up your Mail application, Lion will ask if you’d like to setup your Yahoo! account. Once set up, you will have access to your Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Messenger (embedded in iChat) services. Here’s a bit more details on how the individual Yahoo! products play with the new operating system:
Yahoo! Mail: Send mail to your friends directly from Apple’s Mail application. With our Mail service you can access your entire Mailbox and carry it anywhere you go. Read email on the web, on your phone, or on your Macbook and they all stay in sync.
Yahoo! Contacts: Yahoo! is the only partner that supports the tight Contacts service integration with OSX. All the Contacts in your Yahoo! Addressbook automatically flow down to your Macbook. The Contacts you add to your Apple address book are automatically backed up to Yahoo.
Yahoo! Calendar: Using Yahoo! Calendar with Apple’s iCal service enables you to streamline your life effortlessly. Share calendars with your family and stay in sync with them across your Apple devices or other Yahoo! Calendar enabled devices.
Yahoo! Messenger: Quickly chat real-time with your friends using Apple’s iChat product shipped with OSX. See which of your Yahoo! Messenger friends are online and reach out to them right from your computer.
Setup Yahoo! services on OSX Lion and instantly make your Macbook yours. Carry your information anywhere you go, and never lose your data backed up by Yahoo’s cloud services.
Yahoo! Messenger Team
February 11, 2011 on 9:03 am | In 10 version, 11 version, Features, Mac version | 19 Comments
The annual About.com Readers’ Choice Awards are here and we’ve been nominated for a few awards in the Best IM category:
- Best IM Client for Windows | vote
- Best IM Client for Mac | vote
- Best IM Chat Rooms | vote
The winners are determined by you, the readers, so head over to About.com to vote for Yahoo! Messenger in the above categories. Voting begins today and runs through March 8.
Thanks to About.com readers for nominating us. We appreciate it!
Sherrine Tan
Yahoo! Messenger Team
May 5, 2010 on 11:02 am | In 10 version, 9.0 version, Mac version, iphone | 51 Comments
As most of you know, Yahoo! takes security and spam infiltration seriously and employs various measures to help protect our users.
Very recently we learned of an issue where some users have received spam messages in Yahoo! Messenger from their contact list. Yahoo! Messenger has quickly worked to resolve the situation.
As always, we recommend that any Yahoo! Messenger user who receives a suspicious IM containing a link should first IM the friend to ensure the message is legitimate before moving forward. We strongly advise users to not download executable (.exe) files that are sent through Yahoo! Messenger. Also, we recommend that users that have anti-virus software on their computer employ the latest anti-virus updates.
Thyaga Vasudevan
Product Manager
March 26, 2010 on 1:25 pm | In Mac version | 77 Comments
An updated version of Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 is now available for download from the Yahoo! Messenger website.
This latest version, 3.0.1.35554, includes a bug fix for display image issues, as well as a crash bug fix.
Download Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0
As always, we welcome your feedback about this latest version. To submit your feedback, go to the Help menu in Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 and select “Send Feedback” to get started.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
March 16, 2010 on 12:28 pm | In 10 version, Features, Mac version, Pingbox | 48 Comments
One of our lesser known but very useful products is the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox. With a copy and paste of some code, you can embed a chat window into your website, blog or social networking page. Then when visitors come to your page, they can see when you’re online and initiate a private IM conversation with you.
My friend Jim has a Pingbox on his neighborhood blog. While he’s on Yahoo! Messenger all day, his status says “Available” in his Pingbox. When visitors come to his site, he can see the counter change next to the Pingbox in his contact list. If someone wants to chat with him, they simply start typing in the Pingbox on the website, which in turn opens up a new IM conversation for Jim. His visitors can remain anonymous or give themselves a nickname while they chat.
One of the greatest things about Pingbox is that there is no need for anyone to know your Yahoo! ID or for you to know theirs. In fact visitors to your site don’t even need a Yahoo! ID to start chatting with you. You can also turn your Pingbox on or off right from your Yahoo! Messenger 10 contact list, so if you find you’re being interrupted too often by chatty visitors, you can go dark for awhile.
Jim says one of the things he really likes is that when he hovers on the Pingbox visitors in his contact list, it will show him what page on his site that visitor is on. But mostly he likes to see the number of people that are passing through his site all day and be available to them. He says he’s gotten some good tips about neighborhood stories from his Pingbox chats.
If you have your own blog, website or social networking page, it’s easy to add a Pingbox. Just visit the Yahoo! Messenger Pingbox Studio and click the “Create a Pingbox” button. You can customize your background, text size, display name, and whether or not you want to show your display image. You can even put in a custom message that users will see in the Pingbox when you’re online, or when you’re offline. Once you’re done, you’ll receive some code that you can copy and paste into your site.
Then just login to Yahoo! Messenger using the same Yahoo! ID under which you created your Pingbox and voila – you’ll see a new group in your contact list and if you have visitors, a count next to the group name. Note that in order to appear online and receive messages from your Pingbox, you need to be signed in to Yahoo! Messenger 10 or Yahoo! Messenger for Mac. However unlike version 10, the Mac version does not display your Pingbox visitors in your contact list.
Do you use a Pingbox on your website, blog or social networking page (e.g. Facebook, MySpace)? Tell us about your experience in the comments.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
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