Yahoo has released a new beta of their popular desktop IM chat software, Yahoo Messenger 11. The new version of Yahoo messenger allows you to play games with friends including several popular ones from Zynga.

Yahoo Messenger 11 beta is now available for downloads and it includes social gaming. Yahoo had become more serious about the social gaming phenomenon when they partnered with Zynga to bring the popular Facebook game Farmville to the Yahoo network. Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta will include games such as Fishville and Mafia Wars from Zynga; Balloono, Pool and Draw My Thing from OMGPOP; and Happy Harvest and Happy Manor from Elex.

In addition to social gaming, Yahoo Messenger 11 Beta will also allow you to manage all your social networks from one place, including Twitter and Facebook. Users can download the beta version of Yahoo Messenger 11 from here.

Close on the heels of a major revamp of the webmail interface, Yahoo has updated its email and instant messaging apps for Android. “We’ve been pleased with the success of both Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger on the Android platform, but of course we never stop looking for ways to make the apps even better,” wrote Lee Parry, the Product Manager of Yahoo! Mail.

The major new features are:

Multiple-account support: Over the years, many of you have probably accumulated multiple Yahoo accounts for different purposes. Now, you can seamlessly manage all of them from the Yahoo! Mail app.

Contact sync: As the name suggests, you will now be able to sync your yahoo mail contacts with your phone.

Photo preview: The update makes Yahoo! Mail capable of displaying quick previews of images received as attachments.

Video Calling: The Yahoo messenger app now supports video calling along with photo and video sharing. However, you will need Android 2.2 along with Yahoo! Messenger Video Add-on to take advantage of the video calling feature.

[ Download Yahoo! Mail for Android | Download Yahoo! Messenger for Android ]

Have you ever thought of making video calls to your friends and relatives from your mobile phone or smart phones? If so, your desire has come true. Fring is free software with which you can make free Mobile calls, Video calls and live chat. Its mobiles call and live chat feature is just like Skype but the feature which makes it unique is video calling from mobile to mobile and mobile to PC.

Fring is basically a VoIP application and service. Through this application you can make calls and messaging to Skype, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, SIP, Twitter and Facebook. It is an all in one’ package from which you can fetch all your online contacts from above mentioned services in single application.

Easy Installation

You can easily install Fring on your cell phones. Firstly you will have to download it from here. After installation you will have to register for a Fring account. From the Add-ons section, you can select the service which you want to use, such as Skype or MSN. Your contacts will be fetched automatically, and those contacts will be included in your buddy list. You can then see in the list which of your buddies is online.

If your cell phone has Wi-Fi, you can use Wi-Fi hotspots or home access points for free phone calls. Video chat on Fring will be more comfortable if your cell phone has a secondary front facing camera.

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Features

Free calls
Fring Add-on applications
Live chat instead of SMS
SkypeOut or SIP calls
Friends’ profiles
Call history
Invite friends
Video calls
Send & Receive files
Wi-Fi auto-roaming

Below is the list of mobile phones and smart phones currently supported by Fring. You should feel lucky if yours is in the list.

Compatible Devices

Nokia : Nokia 3250, Nokia 5320 XpressMusic, Nokia 5500 Sport, Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, Nokia 5700, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6120 classic, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6124 classic, Nokia 6220 (old), Nokia 6290, Nokia 6650d, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6720 classic, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6790 Slide, Nokia E50, Nokia E51, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E60, Nokia E61, Nokia E61i, Nokia E63, Nokia E65, Nokia E66, Nokia E70, Nokia E71, Nokia E72, Nokia E75, Nokia E90 (Communicator), Nokia N71, Nokia N73, Nokia N75, Nokia N76, Nokia N77, Nokia N78, Nokia N79, Nokia N80, Nokia N81, Nokia N82, Nokia N85, Nokia N86, Nokia N91, Nokia N92, Nokia N93, Nokia N95, Nokia N95, 8GB, Nokia N96

Apple: iPhone 3G, 3GS.iPod touch

Samsung: Samsung SGH-G810, Samsung SGH-I550

Android Devices: HTC EVO, Nexus1

Sony Ericsson: P1i

The Yahoo Messenger team has released a new update to YM 10 (v10.0.0.1241) with bug fixes and other stability updates.

The major change in Yahoo Messenger 10 enhances the stability and performance of the new video call feature, it also improves the video calling features on PCs which run Windows 7.

Other than the above changes no other change log is available right now. If you have never used Yahoo Messenger 10, you can visit our earlier review of YM 10.

If you are looking to download the direct/standalone installer of Yahoo Messenger 10, visit this link (.exe file download will begin). If you prefer to use the web installer you can download YM 10 from here.

After a fairly prolonged beta period, Yahoo released the final version of Yahoo Messenger 10 earlier today. The final build includes several bug fixes and Windows 7 compatibility. You can find our review of Yahoo Messenger 10 here. The main highlights of this release are:

• High-quality video calls
  The webcam feature has been completely redesigned. It now supports high quality video call with synced audio from the IM window itself.
• New Y! Updatesview of your contact list
  Yahoo Messenger 10 introduces an alternate view of your contact list, which allows you to quickly catch up with your friend’s latest activities. The Y!Updates mode displays a real-time stream of their updates including status message changes. If your contacts have chosen to share their social activity with Yahoo, you will be able to keep track of what your contacts are saying on Twitter, reading on Yahoo! Buzz or listening on Last.fm.
• Find more to chat about
  If you want to chat with your friend about their updates, you can do so through a hover menu which allows you to IM a friend about their updates. When you do this, the update also appears inline in the conversation window, so that your friend will be aware of the context.
• Change your language easily
  Yahoo Messenger 10 introduces a Language menu (visible in the sign-in screen), which allows you to instantly chose any of the 16 available languages. You can also change your language from Messenger –> Preferences –> Language.

The official Yahoo Messenger 10 download link will offer you the web-installer. If you have a poor internet connection or simply prefer to download the full installer, you can do so from Softpedia.

Quite sometime back, we had told you about a registry hack that allowed you to run multiple instances of Yahoo messenger on your PC.

If you are not comfortable with editing your registry, a simple freeware called Yahoo Messenger Multi Login will allow you to perform the hack by clicking a button.

Once you apply the hack you will be able to run multiple Yahoo Messenger instances on the same PC and login using separate IDs.

Pretty useful if you make use of separate ids for work and your personal use. Of course you might achieve the same by using a multi-protocol IM clients like Digsby.

Yahoo Messenger multi login is a portable software and does not require any installation.

Download Yahoo Messenger Multi Login

A few months back we had told you about a leaked version Yahoo Messenger 10 and reviewed it for you, however if you were afraid of downloading the version of Yahoo Messenger here is some good news.

The Yahoo messenger team have officially released the Yahoo Messenger 10 beta for downloads.

The Yahoo Messenger 10 beta has several exciting features available for including;

• High-quality video calls
• New Y! Updatesview of your contact list
• Change your language easily
• New ways to sort your contacts
• New icons in the IM window

If you want to learn more about the other features in YM 10 don’t forget to read the YM 10 review we did earlier.

Download Yahoo Messenger 10 Beta

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta [Official YM Blog]

The world seems to be aware of unfair policy by Apple’s app store in approving or rejecting the apps submitted to it. Just two weeks back, Apple blocked Google Voice and then had controversial email conversation between FCC and Apple.

This time around, Apple is yet again up with its notorious self and delaying the process for approving apps? Sarah Bacon, Product Manager updated  Yahoo! messenger Blog saying its been more than two weeks that Yahoo! team has submitted the latest version of Yahoo! messenger app to Apple’s app store.

What’s taking them(Apple app store) so long?

[via Yahoo!messenger blog]

By default the archives stored by Yahoo Messenger is encoded, which means that you will not be able to read your archive when you are offline, this is typically done to protect users conversations from others.

However there are times when you may want to view and search your messenger archive, but may not have access to a active internet connection.

In such cases a tool called Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder can come in handy, this freeware utility will decode all the archive files and view them without having to use Yahoo Messenger.

This tool will also allow you to export your messenger chat archives as txt or rich text files.

We tested this out and it works as advertised, we were able to decode the Yahoo Messenger chat archive with this tool.

Yahoo Messenger Archive Decoder is a portable software, you can drop it on a portable drive and use it anywhere.

Download Yahoo Messenger Chat Archive Decoder

Yahoo Messenger is a free IM  client, however it shows some ads at the bottom of the messenger window, some of the ads are Ok, however there are certain ads like Find singlesetc, which users would rather not prefer to see.

If you are a Yahoo Messenger user who want to remove ads from the IM window, here are few options which will help you do it.

Option 1 to Remove Ads From Yahoo Messenger

This is a simple option using which you can disable, block and remove ads from Yahoo Messenger.

A software utility called A-Patch for Yahoo Messenger will help you remove ads from Yahoo messenger, it also allows users to run multiple instances of yahoo messenger on the same PC.

Download A-Patch for Yahoo Messenger

Option 2 to Remove Ads From Yahoo Messenger

Completely close Yahoo Messenger and exit the application, after you have done that download this Yahoo Messenger Ad Remover Windows Batch File (.bat) and execute it.

This batch will make some registry changes that will disable the ads from being shown when using Yahoo messenger. More information about this ad remover can be found here.

Have you used any other methods to disable ads in Yahoo Messenger, do let us know about them.