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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3-25-2008 @ 11:24PM
Alan said...
Question: can this version talk to people on MSN, like Windows users have been able to?
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3-26-2008 @ 1:05AM
Karl said...
You can talk to MSN users in the Windows client? I'm sure the Windows client will be surprised to learn that.
3-26-2008 @ 1:07AM
Alan said...
Or perhaps I am crazy, and it is MSN users that can talk to Yahoo peoples.
3-26-2008 @ 8:38AM
Christopher Wilson said...
@karl:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/feat_interop.php
3-26-2008 @ 6:53PM
Karl said...
@Christopher Wilson
That page says they can IM MSN users, nothing new there the Mac version has done that since Beta 1. The OP said talk is if they could hold voice conversations with them, that page makes no mention of such a feature.
3-26-2008 @ 6:57PM
Alan said...
@Karl: actually, I was talking about neither IM nor voice. I was talking about signing in with MSN credentials. Sorry I wasn't clear enough. A friend of mine uses a Yahoo UID to sign in the Windows Live Messenger, and not Yahoo's client.
3-26-2008 @ 2:23AM
Morgan said...
Call 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...
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3-26-2008 @ 12:21PM
Sam Katz said...
Don'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.
3-26-2008 @ 9:19AM
DrWho said...
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!
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3-26-2008 @ 9:34AM
Luigi193 said...
Are your AOL over lords going to be happy???
LOL, just kidding!
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3-26-2008 @ 12:34PM
Able-X said...
I just wish they'd make photoshare work in the mac version, that's really irritating.
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3-26-2008 @ 11:57PM
Howie Isaacks said...
OK... 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.
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3-27-2008 @ 2:57AM
Seth A said...
Oh, 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
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3-27-2008 @ 2:59AM
Denden said...
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.
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