Yahoo!'s instant messaging (IM) service, which includes text messaging, voice calling and file sharing. The IM client includes Internet radio and the regular phone calling at rates as low as one cent per minute. Starting with Version 8.1, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live Messenger users can instant message with each other. See instant messaging and voice chat.
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- MessengerLog 360 7.20 (Windows)
- MessengerLog 360 allows you to monitor and record chat from all popular instant messengers: MSN/Windows Live messenger (including version 9.x), Yahoo Messenger (including version 9.x), AIM/AOL (including version 6.x, with encrypted protocol), ICQ (included version 6.x), Google GTalk, and Skype. It has support for record chat in both plain text...
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- MessengerLog 360 Pro 7.20 (Windows)
- MessengerLog 360 Pro lets you monitor and record chat from all popular instant messengers: MSN/Windows Live messenger (including version 9.x), Yahoo Messenger (including version 9.x), AIM/AOL (including version 6.x, with encrypted protocol), ICQ (included version 6.x), Google GTalk, and Skype. Support record chat in both plain text and HTML/Rich text*...
- Software downloads 2009-11-21
- iSafe AllInOne Keylogger 1.5.9 (Windows)
- iSafe AllInOne Keylogger lets you monitor all the activities and conversations, look at screenshots, and sites they have surfed, the keystrokes, the clipboard they copied and pasted. By activating iSafe Computer Watch, you can monitor everything including blocking unwanted sites/programs. The Key Logger allows you to register all keystrokes typed,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- Instant Hidden Internet 3.4 (Windows)
- Quickly hide or close all Internet browser windows, chat windows and folder windows with the touch of a customizable hot key boss key. Chat windows stay hidden even if new ones try to pop-up. Windows are even hidden from the Windows Task Manager. To make hidden windows visible, just press...
- Software downloads 2009-11-20
- Miranda IM (Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7) 0.8.10 (Windows)
- Miranda IM is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and other protocols. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds of...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Miranda IM (Windows 95/98/Me) 0.8.10 (Windows)
- Miranda IM is an instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo. Supplemented by hundreds of plug-ins and other content, Miranda IM is very flexible...
- Software downloads 2009-11-17
- Yahoo Messenger 10.0.0.1102 (Windows)
- Yahoo Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and to send them instant messages. It also can alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals accounts, or when you have upcoming events recorded in your Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger...
- Software downloads 2009-11-13
- Chat Controller 2.0 (Windows)
- Chat Controller gives parents the power they need to take control of their children's instant messaging. Chat Controller will block all popular instant messengers, such as AOL Instant Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and many more. Chat Controller allows for creating "rules" for when chatting is not allowed per...
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- Spysure Home Version 2.0.3.0 (Windows)
- Spysure PC and Internet Monitoring Software is an innovative software package, designed to secretly record all online and offline activity on a computer. Spysure combines all of its monitoring features into one simple, user-friendly interface. Spysure is popular amongst parents, spouses and employers who are interested in monitoring computer activity....
- Software downloads 2009-11-11
- Goober Instant Messenger 2.1.0.5 (Windows)
- The free Goober Instant MULTI-Messenger is compatible to ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. It offers encrypted chat and filetransfer, VoIP, SMS, music streaming, Web Space (public, private, protected), and piture streaming. Multimessaging and 50 unique Smilies. Landline VoIP-calls are for free.
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- Video2Webcam 3.1.0.2 (Windows)
- Video2webcam enables you to show video clips as virtual webcam during video chat whether you own a real webcam or not. You could either share your home-made video clips easily with your friends while chatting on line or make fun of them by pretending to be somebody else. With it,...
- Software downloads 2009-11-10
- MSN Webcam Recorder 25.0 (Windows)
- MSN Webcam Recorder is fast video-recording software. Record the full-screen, window, and fixed region. For AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and screen. The program loads the video compressors dynamically on your system for the best power and flexibility. Audio can be recorded from any source, including microphone, line-in, or speakers.
- Software downloads 2009-11-06
- IMonitor Keylogger 4.2 (Windows)
- IMonitor Keylogger can secretly record user's computer activities and Internet activities, such as e-mail, instant messages MSN and Yahoo Messenger, keystrokes, screenshots, Web sites visited, searching keywords, and file or program downloaded. It also can block unwanted or harmful Web sites, block chat conversations from unwanted people. Additionally it can...
- Software downloads 2009-11-05
- Miranda IM Portable 0.8.9 (Windows)
- Miranda IM Portable is the smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols. Designed from the ground-up to be resource efficient while still providing a rich feature set, Miranda includes support for AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu and other protocols. Additionally, with the choice of hundreds...
- Software downloads 2009-10-27
- Yahoo Mail outages plague some users
- Scattered reports say the world's most widely used e-mail service was suffering from scattered outages on Monday morning. Yahoo Mail users reported problems Monday morning, with the service inaccessible for some and spotty for others. TechCrunch noticed a Twitter spike in reports of problems with Yahoo...
- News items 2009-10-26
- JBuddy Messenger 3.1.091026 (Mac)
- JBuddy Messenger is a multi-protocol, cross-platform instant messaging desktop client. JBuddy Messenger supports popular public instant messaging protocols as well as enterprise instant messaging servers and runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris and other Java-enabled desktop environments. System Requirements: JBuddy Messenger requires a Java Runtime Environment JRE...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Hidetools Parental Control 4.3 (Windows)
- Hidetools Parental Control protects your children online and offline. The program is all-in-one solution which combines powerful computer monitoring software with Internet filter and games/application blocker! This parental control tool invisibly records everything your children do, including keystrokes typed, web sites visited, system activity, programs used, screenshots and more. The...
- Software downloads 2009-10-26
- Yahoo: Giving users a mobile experience, not a mobile OS
- Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was scheduled to speak at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco this morning, has been bitten by a flu bug and didn't make it to center stage today. But that's OK - her team was on-hand for a media breakfast and shared her vision...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- SpyPal 7.2 (Windows)
- SpyPal secretly records Internet chats, instant messages, emails, visited websites, keystrokes, MySapce and Facebook activities, and much more. It supports MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, AOL/AIM, Skype and more. It even takes screen snapshots at your set interval like a surveillance camera. In stealth mode, it is...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- Real Spy Monitor 2.92 (Windows)
- Real Spy Monitor is an Internet and PC spy-monitoring and security program. It can monitor all PC activity, including keystrokes typed, Web sites visited, Windows opened, programs executed, screens captured, and files and documents accessed. Internet monitoring can record all instant messengers, including AOL, ICQ, MSN, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger,...
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
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