Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 1 features a new look and feel for Mac OS X. New features include Avatars, sounds, and display images. Yahoo! promises that the ability to IM with friends that use Windows Live Messenger is “coming soon.”
For Max OS X 10.3.9 or later, Intel and Power PC Macs Yahoo! Messenger for Mac 3.0 Beta 1 also features”
• Webcam: Use a webcam to share live video with your friends and family.
• File Transfer: Drag and drop files right into the IM window to share instantly with your friends.
• Emoticons: Express your feelings over IM with these animated smiling faces.
• Take Yahoo! With You: Stay connected with your IM friends from your mobile phone.
• Stealth settings
• Conferencing
• “New IM” indicator in the Mac OS X dock
• Organize your contact list into groups
• Unicode support
More info and download link here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jadis One” for the heads up.]
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What…. I can’t believe it… a new IM application for Mac? What’s next? A new offical AOL client for Mac?
Eh, I’m still using Adium.
Are there alternatives that allow webcam experience between mac and windows pcs?
Other than the updated “look and feel” and the Unicode support, finally…I don’t see much to get excited over. But…since I do use Yahoo on it’s on once in a while, I’ll have to check it out.
Not only is it new and looks good, it lacks all of the adware that comes with and takes up so much of the viewing area of the Windows client.
Yahoo does do webcam with PC users using the higher quality video now. (they say audio is coming soon)
Additionally, there are some nice bezel effects when you new users arrive and depart and some other nice OSX-type features… someone at Yahoo has been using OSX for awhile to include some of these.
Holly cow!
Yahoo! finally throws us Mac users a bone after ignoring us for so many years?
How about making your games completly Javascript based so we can play them too?
And how about not requiring IE for everything?
So MDN does read their email.
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does this mean they will finally support an isight camera? i work at an apple retail store, and getting those things to work on yahoo! messenger is impossible. though, im told it can be done.
Wrong Again, are you saying the video works without audio or audio as in “audio only” coming soon. Thanks.
The webcam feature works but the video is somewhat jerky on my older Mac, at least compared to video from the same firewire cam using iChat. I would hope future releases might perhaps improve on this circumstance.
@ Too Hot! –
Try SightSpeed, Mac and PC compatible and works very well:
http://www.sightspeed.com/
Suggestion for Apple:
Make iChat users be able to chat with Yahoo and MSN Messenger buddies.
That’d be awesome!
Uh, guys…this has been out for at least 2 weeks now.
Dynamic Mesh said, “Holly Cow!”
It must be Christmas!
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Yahoo Sucks – all around
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71057-0.html?tw=rss.technology
I Agree with AW
Make that – DW
My biggest complaint with the new Yahoo Messenger is that there is NO WAY to save chats, either automatically or manually.
Otherwise, I feel it’s a markable improvement over the previous version.
I believe this was released on the 28th of June and I’ve been trying it out since then so it’s good to see MDN is on the ball.
Other sites covered it soon after release and I revealed it on Spymac. As MDN didn’t seem to know about it I submitted an email but it looks like I wasn’t the only one.
Anyway the Messenger looks good and works well. It will be interesting to see how well the Voice feature works when it’s added in the next release.
It even has growl support now! Sweet!
“Max” OS 10.3.9? Where can I buy it?
@ R
Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out…