New Yahoo Messenger BETA. Nice.
Posted : May 9, 2004 at 3:40 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
Nice. Especially the ‘Maverick Blue’ theme. Has some neat features like “selective-invisibility”, meaning you could be online for everyone except your boss 
and the “audibles”. Basically, “audibles” are like emoticons-with-avataar-and-sound, but it does not work on my WinXP professional setup 
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There aren’t many new features if you use MSN Messenger 6.1, but audibles is definitely worth checking out (when it starts working) and I don’t think MSN Messenger has it.
- Anand
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Nice find! I just downloaded it and it is a big improvement. Haven’t seen any bugs yet, but I’ve had it for about 3.3848 minutes so far, and nobody is up at 3am any more to play with.
Posted by: Kevin at May 9, 2004 @ 10:45 pm
Glad to hear your 3.3848 minutes of success. I am sure it’s much longer by now. btw, how were you measuring that..;-)
I have had problems with “Audibles” on my WinXP Professional setup, but on WinXP Home it works like a charm. Go figure.;-)
Posted by: Anand Sharma at May 9, 2004 @ 11:51 pm
I just use Trillian, http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/. Of course, I don’t care about all the little features like “audibles”.
Posted by: Gregg Bolinger at May 10, 2004 @ 7:07 am
Audibles… Microsoft’s Three Degrees (http://www.threedegrees.com/) has something similar I think. Anyway I dont know what MS is doing with Three Degrees. Not many know about it.
Posted by: Vazz at May 10, 2004 @ 8:22 am
I am unable to install it on my Windows XP Professional. Is there a workaround or it is not compatible.
Posted by: babloo at May 10, 2004 @ 9:23 am
Babloo: It sure worked for me. And no, it was a pretty straightforward install. I guess that’s why it’s a BETA release. It’s still pretty flaky..:-)
Posted by: Anand Sharma at May 10, 2004 @ 9:52 am
Gregg: I have a colleague at work who swears by Trillian. Since I am primarily a Yahoo IM user (with MSN Messenger being used occasionally), the value proposition has not yet been there for me to switch.
But then again, don’t be surprised if a few months from now, you hear me singing hosannas about Trillian right here on this blog station
Posted by: Anand Sharma at May 10, 2004 @ 9:58 am
Vazz: I truly have never heard of Three Degrees. Will see if I can find some time to check it out.
Posted by: Anand Sharma at May 10, 2004 @ 10:00 am