Users of Yahoo’s Messenger program need an Internet connection and the Yahoo Messenger sign in data for the account to access the chat history. That’s problematic if the Internet is down but information need to be accessed, or if the account needs to be accessed without the sign in information at hand. Yahoo Archive Decoder [...]

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Yahoo has just made available a first beta version of the upcoming Yahoo Messenger 11. The instant messenger is a popular choice among Internet users, and it may increase that popularity thanks to the new features introduced in the messenger. Probably the biggest chance is the addition of several Zynga games. Zynga? Yes, the company [...]

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Yahoo has released Yahoo Messenger 10, the latest installment of their popular instant messenger. The Yahoo Messenger 10 download is offered not only for Windows operating systems such as Windows 7 or Windows Vista but also for Apple Macintosh, mobile devices like the iPhone and as a web application that requires no download at all. [...]

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The Yahoo Messenger team has released the long awaited Yahoo Messenger 10 final. The popular instant messenger was previously only available in beta versions with many of them leaked and not officially released by Yahoo. The new Yahoo Messenger 10 can be downloaded directly from the Yahoo Messenger website where it is available for Microsoft [...]

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Yahoo announced upgrades to three of their major products and services. Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Search and Yahoo Messenger were all updated on the same day. Social integration was the key phrase during development as most improvements to the products fall into that category. Yahoo Mail now comes with a redesigned mobile version that is available [...]

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Instant Messengers have a feature to change the current status of the active user. The different statuses range from available over do not disturb to invisible. The Instant Messenger contacts see the statuses of their buddies unless the status has been set to invisible. Invisible means that the user is online but showing as offline [...]

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I was not very pleased with the guys who decided to publish the songs that they were listening to in public IRC channels back in the days when I was using IRC daily. It always had a spammy feeling to it and I used to add those users quickly to my ignore list so that [...]

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Most Instant Messengers offer a function to hide your real status from your contacts and buddies by showing a faked offline status. People use it mainly to be able to work uninterrupted.

There is however a way to find out if your Yahoo contact or buddy is really offline or only faking that he is offline. It basically lets you detect if they use the invisible mode in Yahoo Messenger.

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