India and some other countries users might be wondering where has the Yahoo Call button disappeared. Well in some countries government has restricted usage of VOIP and to secure itself, Yahoo has taken measures to disable PC-to-PC calls in these region by disabling calling features in local version of Yahoo Messenger.
However this limitation can be easily by-passed using a simple hack, well it cannot be called a hack even. All you have to do is un-install the current Local Version of Yahoo Messenger from your system and download the US version of Yahoo! Messenger. When you visit the Yahoo Messenger’s site, it automatically selects the local version to your country by scanning your IP address. Read more…
India, Messengers, Tips-Tricks-Hacks
Feature, IM, India, Popular, Tips-Tricks-Hacks, Yahoo
Yahoo has officially released the final version of Yahoo Messenger 10 which includes new features like High-quality video calls, new icons, new sorting methods, a new and useful Yahoo Insider and the “Y Updates” tab which list the activites of your friends and much more.
This release is stable and fully compatible with Windows 7 and also includes a bunch of security fixes. You can download the final version directly from the official Yahoo Messenger site by using their installer but the problem with it is it does not support resuming. The people with slower connection or limited bandwidth can opt for the country-wise direct download links for Windows from the Yahoo servers only. Read more…
Messengers
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Yahoo has released the new version of their Messenger in Beta i.e. Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta. This time Yahoo has not revamped the console but has worked on the internal features and unlike previous version the interface remains same as that of version 9. Also Yahoo is in plans to expire the older versions below 8.0 in the early September.
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A few days back, we discussed about how to get invisible in Google Talk while staying at your Desktop. Prism helped us in building invisible version by using the online flash client of Gtalk. This combination of Gtalk Flash Version and Prism can also be used to run multiple Gtalk clients with different accounts at once. Read more…
Internet Applications, Messengers, Tips-Tricks-Hacks
Chat, Feature, Google, How To, IM, Mozilla, Prism, Tips-Tricks-Hacks
Google Talk was launched on August 24, 2005. Since then it lacked in features such as Invisibility mode, Video Chat, etc which other competitors like Yahoo Messenger supported. Google has surely added these features in past year but only to its online versions of Gtalk i.e. Gmail and the desktop version is lacking behind.
Google also have a beta version which is based on Adobe Flash and is having a sky of errors. Using the Google Talk Labs Edition gets impossible at times and most users un-install it. Google seems to be slow at desktop development of Gtalk. So we came up with the following solution for invisibility in Google Talk. Read more…
Internet Applications, Messengers, Tips-Tricks-Hacks
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