![]() Was this Apple or was it Yahoo? I mean, everything worked fine until I updated to Yosemite, and then suddenly the application has a "NO" through it, like it's a 68K application or something. It was one of the last holdouts from the era where you could just turn your webcam on, and friends might actually ask to watch it, rather than just trying to creep on your Stickam stream. I could have a voice conversation with my mom - who had Y!M logged in all the time for her work - or talk to some old friends that would pop into their rarely used Yahoo accounts every so often. ![]() It still clung to its 3 frame-per-second webcam roots and sometimes-working-audio, but - like an old girlfriend who's lap you pass out drunk and crying on - it was familiar. When PowerPC gave way to Intel, and full 30fps videoconferencing was offered by everyone - iChat, Skype, Gizmo, and even eventually MSN Messenger - I still hung onto the newly relaunched beta of Yahoo! Messenger. In the unfamiliar new world of OSX, Yahoo was a friendly face across a crowd, smiling while it introduced me to all the new people on the block. Yahoo stayed the same (it was a Carbon application at that point, so the OS9 version WAS the OSX version), and I kept using it. ![]() Then OSX came along, and iChat gave us all AIM-based videoconferencing. The very shortcomings of the application were part of what endeared it. It felt like a rubber band airplane that I'd built out of balsa wood in my basement, and which fell apart violently every second time I'd try to make it fly. I liked how light it felt in OS9, how little memory it took up and even how poorly its buttons were animated. So I used the application, and over time I became fond of it. In 2001, NO chat software for the Mac had any webcam support. Sure, I had AIM - everyone used AIM - but my girlfriend had Windows and a webcam. # Several bug fixes, including some related to our new video call feature.I remember back in the early 2000s, when I was still using a G3 under OS 8.6, and Yahoo Messenger was my go-to messenger. If you’re already signed in, you can also change your language under Messenger > Preferences > Language (you’ll have to restart Yahoo! Messenger for it to take effect). Choose from 16 different languages and the buttons, menus and various parts of the interface will change to that language. When you start up Yahoo! Messenger 10, you’ll notice a new language menu on the sign-in screen. version but wish it could be in your local language, you’re in luck. Note that your friend needs to also be on Yahoo! Messenger 10 to see the update inline. ![]() When you do, the update appears inline in the conversation window, so when you start your IM with “I can’t believe you like this song!”, your friend will know what you’re talking about. To make it easy, we added a hover menu that lets you quickly IM a friend about their update. Within the new “Yahoo! Updates” view, you’re sure to find more to talk about with your friends. You can turn alerts on and off and even update preferences by contact or by type of update. If you want to disable these, go to Messenger > Preferences > Yahoo! Updates. When a new update comes in, a “toast” alert will pop up in the lower right corner of your screen. We also added additional features for how and when you see your friends’ updates. If they’ve opted-in to share their updates via Yahoo!, you’ll be able to see what they’re saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz, listening to on last.fm, and more. To help you keep up with your friends, we added an alternate view of your contact list that shows a real-time stream of their updates, including Messenger status message changes. People are busy these days, doing all sorts of interesting things online. # New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list To get started, click the new “Video Call” button in the IM window (your friend also needs to be on Yahoo! Messenger 10) ![]() You can even go full-screen with your video call. Features include the ability to swap video windows, position the video windows side-by-side, mute the call or place it on hold. Now you can make a high-quality video call to a friend with synched audio, right in the IM window. We’ve completely redesigned our 1:1 webcam feature (under the hood too). ![]()
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