Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends
come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to
new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when you
have upcoming events recorded in your Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger
offers firewall support, a standby mode that minimizes the program until
an Internet connection is made, the ability to save and print your
conversations, and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your
favorite stocks, news, and sports scores.
Other features include
the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts,
the ability to send messages to friends (even if they're not online when
you are), a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to
maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and voice chat, which
allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet. It also
includes Launchcast Radio, Yahoo Games, and Yahoo Audibles. Using a
Webcam, you can see who you're chatting with or view the Webcam of any
Yahoo member who has granted you access.
| Features: Check out the chart below to see all of the features that are available
in the various versions of Yahoo! Messenger. Or use the menu below to
view features for a specific version. |
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 | | | | Instant Messaging: Send text messages in real-time to your friends on Yahoo! Messenger. |
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| Chat Rooms: Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics. |
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| Photo Sharing: Share photos from your desktop or Flickr, then discuss them over IM while you and a friend view them together. |
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| PC-to-PC Calls: Make a voice call to another Yahoo! Messenger user for free (microphone and speakers/headset required). |
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| Phone Out (PC-to-Phone Calls): Call friends on their regular or mobile phones from Messenger for as low as 1¢ a minute (Phone Out account required). |
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| Phone In (Get a Phone Number for Messenger): Get a new phone number that allows you to receive calls in Yahoo! Messenger (Phone In account required). |
| | | | SMS (Text Messaging): Send text messages from Messenger to your friends mobile phones for free. |
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| Webcam: Plug in your webcam to share live video with your friends on Yahoo! Messenger. |
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| IM Conferencing: Instant message with many friends at once in a conference room (includes voice capabilities, where available). |
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| | IM with Friends on Other Networks: IM with friends who use Windows Live™ Messenger, Reuters Messaging, and Lotus Sametime — right from Yahoo! Messenger. |
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| File Transfer: Send files instantly to a friend while you IM (2 GB limit). |
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Productivity |
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| IM Forwarding to Mobile: When you sign out of Messenger, have new IMs sent to your phone as text messages. |
| | | | Contact Search Bar: Quickly find a contact to IM, call, SMS or more. |
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| | Yahoo! Search: Start a web search right from your Yahoo! Messenger window. |
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| Yahoo! Address Book: View and edit your Yahoo! Address Book information for your contacts right from Messenger. |
| | | | Stealth/Privacy Settings: Make yourself appear online to some friends, and offline to others. |
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| Call Forwarding: Have incoming calls to Messenger forwarded to another phone number, even if you're signed out (Phone Out account required). |
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| Yahoo! Mail alerts: Get notified when new a new Yahoo! Mail message arrives. |
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| Voicemail: When friends call you on Yahoo! Messenger, they can leave you a voicemail if you're unavailable. |
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| | Message Archiving: Maintain a private archive of your IM conversations. |
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| | Tabbed IM Windows: Reduce desktop clutter by organizing multiple conversations into a single window. |
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| Buzz Alert: Get your friend's attention with a click of the Buzz button. |
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| Yahoo! Updates: Get real-time updates in Yahoo! Messenger about what your friends are posting online, reviewing and generally buzzing about |
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| Plug-ins: Add content, services and games to Messenger that you can enjoy on your own, or with friends while you IM. |
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| Audibles: Send an animated, talking character to a friend to liven up your IM conversation. |
| | | | Emoticons: Express your feelings with these animated, smiling faces. |
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| | Avatars: Represent yourself with a stylized, graphic image where you can choose the hair, clothing and more. |
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| | Display Images: Display an image to represent yourself to your friends. |
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| Skins: Choose a different skin to give your IM world a new look. |
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| IMVironments: Liven things up with interactive, themed backgrounds in the IM window. |
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| Yahoo! Games: Play a game of pool, backgammon, checkers and more with a friend while you IM. |
| | | | Custom Status Messages: Tell your friends what you're doing, seeing or feeling by customizing your online status message. |
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| Custom Ringtones: Assign ringtones to different callers, or upload your own audio files to use. |
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| | Customizable Fonts & Colors: IM with a font, color and style that suits your personality. |
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| Sound Effects & Soundtrack (During Voice Calls): Throw a sound effect in while you're on a call or upload a music file to play as a soundtrack in the background. |
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