Yahoo! Messenger 3 adds voice, in beta
Our friends on the Yahoo! Messenger team dropped us a note alerting us to their newly released Yahoo! Messenger 3 Beta 3 for the Mac. What's the big news with this beta? As you might recall previous betas made Messenger a Universal Binary and added tabbed chats. New in this beta: voice calling.That's right, you can now do the following with Yahoo! Messenger, just like our Windows running comrades:
- Make free computer to computer calls
- Sign up for a Phone Out account which will allow you to call regular phones with Yahoo! Messenger
- Send free text messages to cell phones (though the receiver might get charged for the text)
- Receive calls from phones on your Mac if you have a Phone In account (these accounts aren't free)
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Our friends on the Yahoo! Messenger team dropped us a note alerting us to their newly released Yahoo! Messenger 3 Beta 3 for the Mac....
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This is nice but I really wish Adiumn would add voice and video support sometime soon. That is something I truly miss since making the switch to Mac.
March 27 2008 at 2:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOh, hey, wow. I have been waiting for this? Oh, and only a year after my girlfriend moved to Australia and we found out the mac version didn't voice chat, so we switched to Skype. Yup, thanks for nothing Yahoo. I mean, honestly. I was checking Yahoo's site every day for months for this, and it comes a year later. And, isn't it about time it goes out of Beta. I will download, but she has moved back, so it is really no use anymore. :-P
March 27 2008 at 2:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOK... Nice but, how long is Yahoo! for Mac going to be in beta??? And why does the webcam function suck? It works at a very slow frame rate... Totally pathetic.
March 26 2008 at 11:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI just wish they'd make photoshare work in the mac version, that's really irritating.
March 26 2008 at 12:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAre your AOL over lords going to be happy???
LOL, just kidding!
I have to use windows at work, I wish yahoo would add tabbed chats to the windows Messenger, even the beta for version 9 doesn't have tabbed chats. And the mac version does, how odd!
March 26 2008 at 9:19 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCall me paranoid, but my current install of YM3 (beta 2) started crashing constantly on me today, and now I read that there's a beta 3 out today. Maybe it really is time to switch to Adium...
March 26 2008 at 2:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyDon't be silly. Your beta started crashing on you because there was a bunch of new server-side technology which the existing program couldn't handle. the new beta fixes that. it is a beta. It will crash sometimes.
March 26 2008 at 12:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyQuestion: can this version talk to people on MSN, like Windows users have been able to?
March 25 2008 at 11:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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