Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Yahoo introduced its Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, the next version of a popular IM software for Windows. This new version has a whole new look and feel, along with some great new features that make it well worth the upgrade.
In Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta when you paste a YouTube video URL in chat window, your friends can watch the video clip inline without having to visit the YouTube Website.
You can easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.
Another useful feature - if you are going Offline, you can configure Yahoo! Messenger 9 to forward all the Offline IM message to a your mobile number as SMS text messages.
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 (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.
To download the latest version click here.
http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Messenger 9 is only available for Windows XP and Vista. A localized Hindi version of Yahoo! Messenger 9 is also available for Indian users.
Here’s a brief video that demonstrates the new features of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0:
The new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 also offers localized versions in six new markets: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (Hindi), and Vietnam. With these additions, Yahoo! Messenger is available in 25 international markets.
Flickr provides a unique email upload address feature. You can use your own unique address to email your photos directly into your Flickr account from your camera phone or your email program. You can send your photographs to this email address as attachments and they’ll show up in Flick Photo gallery almost instantly. The subject line of email becomes the photo’s title while the body of the email becomes the photo’s description.
You can set up a special email address to automatically post photos to your blog. You'll also need to set up posting to your blog from Flickr if you haven't already.
