29 April 2006

My Yahoo! Imagine all your favourite things on one page. That's My Yahoo!.


Well it has been a long time between drinks since I last took a look at My Yahoo! I have been trying it out for the last week or so and I got to say, it has grown on me. The idea of having all your favourite content in the one place is rather appealing.

You can select from all the usual Yahoo service, like email, weather, news, sports, messenger, etc. and if Yahoo services doesn't has the right content for you they have now provided a nifty RSS feed for external content. So your page brings together everything from the web that is right for you.

The layout is fully customizable with the number of columns and placement of 'modules'. And there are some pretty funky colour schemes to choose from. You can also share your entire page with friends or email an individual module to a friend.

My Yahoo! is by far superior to Google's Personalized Home page, although I do like their classic arcade games. However Google is lacking the content that My Yahoo! has to offer. So if you want practical try out My Yahoo! but if you are looking fun then head over to Google.

27 April 2006

Yahoo! Messenger with Voice moves out of Beta Testing


A quick check of Y! Messenger page this morning revealed that their chat program has moved out of beta testing and into a production release.

Among the already nice features they have added one more, for those of us with an extensive contacts list. You can now very very quickly and easily search your contact. Big deal! I hear you say... Well, imagine a list of, say, 1000 contact's this search feature is super fast.

Some other great features of Yahoo! Messenger include:

  • Make FREE PC-to-PC Calls
    All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers. It's that easy - just click the Call button.

  • Drag and Drop Photo Sharing
    Need something to talk about? Just drag and drop pictures into your IM window to share them with your friends.

  • Yahoo! Music Radio
    Make your own radio station and share the song you are listening to with your friends.

  • File Transfer
    Drag-and-drop files (up to 100MB) for real-time sharing and instant notification that they've been received.

  • Stealth Settings
    Make yourself appear online to some and offline to others.

  • More Features
    Personalise your messaging with avatars, audibles, stealth settings, custom ring tones, and more.

25 April 2006

YAHOO CHAT IN FLUX

The last few weeks has seen Yahoo chat in a state of flux. Yahoo discontinued its YCHT protocol, added connectivity to some other instant messaging services and dropped some popular rooms like chatterbox and Chat Central.

The ability to make unlisted public rooms is there, sometimes, and sometimes not. YahELite build 301 is now available to handle some recent changes in Yahoo.

Yahoo servers are dropping text packets, in some cases up to 15% of chat text just disappears. This is happening to all chatters regardless of which client they use.
YahELite users can use the chat command /number and /nonumber to see
that chat text lines are missing, and some chat text lines arrive out of order!

24 April 2006

Group hug! Friends on Yahoo! and MSN can soon share instant messages.

For instant messaging fans, this rates right up there with the Berlin Wall.

Working hand-in-hand with our friends at MSN, we're hammering out a solution to connect our two thriving global IM communities.

Which means soon (we're thinking the first half of 2006), friends on Yahoo! Messenger with Voice and MSN Messenger can see when friends are online, share IMs and emoticons, easily add new contacts from either service to their Messenger Lists, and more.


Some time ago this update was found on Yahoo Messenger website. Well Yahoo/MSN crew if you haven't checked recently we are into the second quarter of 2006. The clock is clicking!! Tick Tock... Tick Tock...

Java Chat Stopped!This is no doubt this is the cause of Yahoo putting an end to their longest standing chat protocol, Java Chat. Read their notice here.

23 April 2006

:: Engagement ::


Last night was the best ever night in my life, as I proposed to the lovely ~~*Drags*~~ ..... and folks... (your waiting for the answer, as I was ) she said..... wait for it.... YES ! ..... woohooo baby, we're going to chapel and we're gonna get married.

20 April 2006

Testing 123

hey bish /:)