WackyB Twitter Sync - Yahoo Messenger Plugin

While Yahoo! Messenger does not officially offer Twitter support, the WackyB Twitter Sync plugin makes sending tweets as easy as sending an IM! Its main features are :

• Changing your Yahoo! Messenger status updates your Twitter automatically!
• Keeps your Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization with each other
• See your friends latest Twitters right in your messenger window...
• Update your Yahoo! Messenger status from anywhere in the world! Messenger status automatically updates to show your latest Twitter!
• Alerts and notifications for new Tweets received
• Expanded window shows the last 10 Tweets from you and your friends
• Twitter-Sync will NOT update your status if you are currently Invisible
• Lots of options to configure Twitter-Sync how you want!

Yahoo Messenger for iPhone

Do you have an iPhone? Do you want to communicate with your Yahoo Messenger friends and you do not know how? Well... it is easy. Download the Yahoo Messenger for iPhone from here.

Most of the features from the desktop version have been carried over to the iPhone’s smaller screen including emoticons, avatars, custom status, invisibility, and the option to send SMS to contacts. The application will also allow sending of pictures clicked using the iPhone’s camera

Although found by many as an extremely useful application, the YM for iPhone is a little low on features. Among the missing specs are: limited emoticons, no available games or themes, and no file transfer options. Apart from these, there are no other real complaints on this application.

You can look for a Yahoo Messenger iPhone demo here:

Yahoo! Messenger Tweaker

Yahoo! Messenger Tweaker allows you to change hidden settings from the well known messaging client with the same name.

Let's see what it can help us with:

* Lets you to open multiple instances - you have multiple IDs and you want to be online at the same time, then check the box (each instance is independent of the other and each takes its share of memory - attention if you only have 256 of RAM your PC might work hard)
* Remove ads - the ads occupie precious space in the window IDs and therefore we have locked
* Enable tabs - an excellent feature that I use it, but it seems that does not work in version Y! Messenger 9.0.0.1389 (probably applies to earlier versions of Messenger)
* Fixed (can not see what I type) - it happened once an issue of it, that I saw what I wrote, and this option corrects this Messenger problem (when I had this problem I used version 8)
* Save psw for - save password for a specific ID
* Also change the animation that appears in the process of 'login'
* Clear status messages - delete the status messages that were placed by users

Tweaker does not require installation as a single file that after you run it once and you set what you want does not need another use.
Download it NOW

Remove Ads from Yahoo Messenger 9

I hate the Yahoo Messenger Ads, and not just because they are disturbing from the user interface point of view, but also because they have to be brought from the internet and my bandwidth is decreased by unwanted traffic.

If you will stay to calculate: Yahoo Messenger Ads, Windows Updates, Video plug-ins updates, Yahoo Browser Bar, Google Browser Bar, and a lot of other applications, that a usual user has installed on his machine, you will noticed that your bandwidth is decreased with at least 32kbytes/second. So that is why I am trying to reduce as much as possible this kind of traffic.

So removing Yahoo Messenger 9 Ads it is an easy job. Just open a Notepad instance (Start->Run - type "notepad" and press Enter). Now in notepad go in menu on File->Open. Now the Open window will pop up. Here copy and paste this file location "C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts". Click Open. It should look like in the left picture. Here on a new line bellow to "127.0.0.1 localhost" add "127.0.0.1 insider.msg.yahoo.com". Save the file and close it. If you have any trouble and you do not understood what exactly you have to do the right picture should help you to figure it out. This change will not affect any other applications that you have on your machine.

Now open your Yahoo Messenger and log in. The disturbing ads should not be here any more. Now you saved few kilobytes of unwanted traffic. The fight against ads will carry on with more such tips and tricks. Your Yahoo Messenger will be clean as in the third picture :

Enable multi Yahoo Messenger login instances (for versions 9 and 10)

Q:Do you have more that one Yahoo Messenger ID?
A:YES I have two ! And I want to be able to log in with both of them into Yahoo Messenger.

Usually if you search on the web for this issue you will find solutions like: "Download Now this executable file to solve the problem". Well maybe that program will solve or not your issue, but also it might bring you viruses or is creating various vulnerabilities to your system. Now we will explain you what a such working application is doing behind and in the same way you can do it alone.

1) First step is to open from Start->Run window like in the picture:

Here type regedit which is a registry editor.

2) Now search and locate the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/Pager/Test. If you found it, right click into right side panel to create a new Dword value with name Plural and give it value 1.

3)Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect. For signing in with new YAHOO ID open another messenger open as many messengers you need. If you want to disable the multiple messenger option then again open registry editor and change Plural value 1 to 0.

Yahoo Messenger Network Spy

These days I found an interesting application called IMMonitor Yahoo Messenger Spy 2.0. Because the name was so attractive, my curiosity pushed me to install it and test it a little bit. In its presentation they are saying that this tool is able to "Capture and Sniff AIM chat conversations on all computers in network,It is able to record conversations automatically in real time,And export all intercepted messages to HTML files".
I've noticed that this YM Spy is using WinPcap (for those who do not know what WinPcap is go here). From my experience I had some troubles with this WinPcap library because many applications are using it and of course you can have only one version at one time on your machine and each application I had required a different version of it. If an application didn't find the wanted version it crashed. Any way... skipping this small issue I was pleasant surprised that the tool is working well. Of course you can use it only in your LAN network. It has included a small IP scanner which will provide you a list with all online computers. From here you can select what computer would you like to spy. YMSpy is very easy to be configured. The setup section is not very complicated and is providing options like "Run the program on the Windows Startup","Start capturing when the program startup","Auto save logs when" (a date),"Auto save logs when shutdown computer" and my favorite option is to "Enable automatic E-Mailing of chat logs". Also in the configuration section you have the option to secure the application with a password so no one can try open it and do chances on it.

I recommend this application for those who are needing such software. You can download it from
http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Communications/Chat-Instant-Messaging/29830.exe.

Yahoo Messenger 10 - small review

Yahoo Messenger 10 is Yahoo's latest vision of its popular chat application for Windows. It builds off the design and feature strengths of its predecessor, Yahoo Messenger 9. The updated look includes more rounded corners and a tabbed buddy list.A new tab shares the screen with your contact list. Yahoo Updates takes its cue from social networking feeds like Twitter and Facebook's status updates. Keeping your buddy list tuned to the lifestream view, you can stay up to date with friends--as long as they update their Yahoo status, or remain active in other Yahoo services.
This screenshot of the chat window in Yahoo Messenger 9 highlights the notable design change to the icons. They look less bubbly and more grown up in version 10 beta (shown in the previous slide), perhaps reflecting a broader demographic that Yahoo wants to attract.
You can mute and hold a call, which suspends the video stream. Buttons make it easy to toggle on and off.For comparison purposes, here's a screenshot of how calling works in Yahoo Messenger 9 from the conversation window. The new design in version 10 beta really calls video chats out.

Improved video calling is the highlighted enhancement in Yahoo Messenger 10 beta. The feature received a back-end overhaul to improve audio syncing and viewing controls.

Optimize your Yahoo Messenger

Did you ever had the feeling that your Yahoo Messenger is not working well? Is your Messenger taking a long time to load? When you are trying to run other applications on your PC do you notice that they are not working as fast as they worked some time ago? Well.... the explanation is Yahoo Messenger. Take a look at the below picture:
As you can see Yahoo Messenger is using 07% from CPU and somewhere around 90Mb from your memory. To decrease these values try to do the next things:

• Close, remove plug ins which are not so useful
• Use default skins and do not import other from the internet because they are not build well(optimized)
• View your contacts in Detailed List and not in compact mode (save around 2 Mb)
• Uninstall other third-party emoticons and smileys applications

After you did the recommended things you memory should look like this :

As you can see, you will save 17 Mb and the CPU is somewhere around 1%. The PC I used for this test has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor at 2 GHz and 2 G of ram.

If you are running out of space on the partition where is installed Yahoo Messenger you can safely delete the content of Cache directory from ...location..\Yahoo!\Messenger folder. Right now I just saved 20 Mb by cleaning it.