November 15th, 2010
In mid 2010 Yahoo!7 Mail for Android went live. And now it’s available in the Android Market. So what really useful features can you use on your Android?
- Multiple Mail accounts – add accounts and swap seamlessly between them
- Photo browsing – view photo attachments from inside the Inbox with fast photo preview
- Install Yahoo!7 Messenger on your Android to see your Contacts’ online presence within Mail, as well as Instant Message or Video Call them without leaving Yahoo!7 Mail
- Sync up your Contacts – access your Yahoo!7 Contacts from your device’s contact app with ease, wherever you are in the operating system.
Visit the Android Market today and download the app to your phone. Start using your Yahoo!7 Mail on your Android to communicate wherever you are via Yahoo!7 Mail.
May 5th, 2010
We’ve added one of the most requested features to our latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone (1.4): the ability to chat with your Windows Live contacts. Now when you’re on your iPhone, your Windows Live friends will be able to see when you’re online, and send and receive messages from them. You can also add new Windows Live friends right from the app. In addition to supporting Windows Live conversations, we also added more languages in a prior release. Those of you who speak French, German, Italian, and Spanish can enjoy Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone in your native tongue. If your iPhone is set to one of those four languages, Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone will detect that automatically and load the same language.
To download the new version, tap the App Store icon on your iPhone and search for Yahoo! Messenger (you may also see an update alert on your App Store icon). Or click here to download it through iTunes. We hope you enjoy this latest version. If you have any technical issues with Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone, please send us feedback by tapping on “Settings”, then scrolling down and tapping on “Report Problem”.
This was announced earlier this month, by our Global Product Manager in the US, Thyaga Vasudevan.
Now you can enjoy IMing on the go with your friends from WLM too!
Tasla – Yahoo!7 Messenger team
November 10th, 2009
The following comes from Sarah, Product Manager for Yahoo! Messenger in the USA:
Yahoo!7 Messenger for Windows has many more features than most of us use in a given day. Our preferences menu is chock full of useful settings that can help you customise your Yahoo!7 Messenger or make you a more efficient user.
One preference I always set when I upgrade to a new version is “Always use my fonts and colours” (Messenger > Preferences > Appearance). That means that no matter what quirky font, colour or size my friends use when they message me, it will always show up in the style I prefer (Arial, 12 for anyone who’s keeping track). I think I discovered this after my college roommate kept insisting on IMs with fluorescent green Tahoma letters in size 16.
While I like to think of myself as young, my aging eyes do betray me. I got tired of squinting at my list to find a friend so a few years ago, I changed my preferences to increase the font size of my contact list (you can also change the font). You can even have online friends show up in bold so they’re more noticeable. You’ll find this ageist setting in Preferences > Appearance, under the Messenger List section.
We’ve all dealt with random people IM’ing us. Sometimes we know them, sometimes they are spammers. To help me quickly separate the riff raff from my real friends, I changed my preference to “When I receive messages from people not on my Messenger list, show the messages in a single list” (Messenger > Preferences > Messages). That way, the messages are all listed in one window and I can quickly reply or ignore them (or mark them as spam). They appear in a window that looks similar to the one used for offline messages.
On the efficiency tip are a couple of shortcuts that may come in handy. If you’re like me and leave your Messenger window open all day long, you can save a step when it comes time to shut down at the end of the day. Under Preferences > General you’ll find a setting for “Sign out of Messenger when I close the main window”. Select that and save yourself the extra step of signing out and then closing down Messenger.
And last but not least is a shortcut you can use to update your status message more quickly. You may already know about the Windows + y shortcut, but do you know the Windows + Shift + y shortcut? That one takes you right to the waiting status message menu where you can start typing your deep thoughts and important updates. For this to work, you first have to enable it under Preferences > General; look for the checkbox that says “Enable system-wide shortcut keys to activate Messenger”.
What are some of your favourite settings, shortcuts, tips or tricks in Yahoo!7 Messenger? Leave a comment to let us know.
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