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Yahoo Messenger Powerful AlternativesHow to replace the classic instant messenger? |
By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor
28th of April 2007, 16:31 GMT
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Yahoo Messenger is often more than a simple instant messaging client because it provides a lot of powerful functions that allows users to communicate with ease. Since the version 6 was released,
Yahoo Messenger was continuously promoted and managed to become the most popular application on the Internet. As you know, the instant messaging client is available for free with a simple Yahoo account that is also compatible with other products developed by the company such as mail or bookmarks. However, most of the Yahoo clients are creating their accounts because they want to communicate on the Internet using Yahoo Messenger.
The latest version of the application allows users to chat with webcam support, send emoticons and audibles, send files or create conferences to communicate with multiple connected clients at the same time. However, some of the users might find one or more of these functions annoying and refuse to connect to Yahoo Messenger anymore. At this time, there are only a few instant messaging clients that allow users to communicate using different networks such as Google Talk or Windows Live Messenger.
Today, I'll present you the most powerful alternatives for Yahoo Messenger that allow you to communicate with your friends from other applications but with the same support for Yahoo Messenger. In fact, by using one of the following programs, you'll be able to communicate with every contact from your Yahoo list but with some other functions and interface.
Trillian is probably one of the best Yahoo replacements, helping users to connect to multiple networks including the giant's portal. The program allows you to send files to your Yahoo contacts but it provides a different set of emoticons and sounds. The interface is 100 percent changed because Trillian enables you to customize the appearance by using different styles or themes. At this time, the developers are working on a new version of the application that will include support for many of the Yahoo Messenger editions and made them fully compatible with your client.
Gaim is another powerful Yahoo Messenger alternative, being recently renamed to Pidgin after some federal problems with more famous companies. However, Gaim is still available for download in version 2.0 beta 6 but you're also required to install GTK for Windows as an add-on for the stand-alone program. Gaim offers support for most of Yahoo Messenger functions, including file transfer and emoticons but it also includes some new tools that can be very useful for the chatting experience. For example, the Psychic plugin helps the users find out when another client of Yahoo Messenger starts to type a message even before he presses the enter button.
I think these two programs are the most powerful in their category so, if you want to use an instant messaging client other than Yahoo Messenger, you can download it from Softpedia. However, if you still want to chat even easier, without having to install any application, you can use one of the web-based clients that help you communicate on the Internet from an online Interface. Although Yahoo's Web Messenger is regarded as an easy way to do that, you can also use Meebo, a solution that supports a lot of messaging protocols.
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| Comment #1 by: arthipesa on 29 Apr 2007, 15:59 GMT |  reply to this comment | I used them all, well, I have them all, I experienced chatting with them all, and it was all great, you have to know, that any of those are very useful, meebo is one last thing i know about getting messege from yahoo through web, gaim is what i always used it, especially the portable version of it. Trillian is a software i used before gaim because of trillian I stand for 2 years using it. Well, Yahoo Messenger is default messenger that I first time know. |
| Comment #2 by: Bogdan.Popa on 29 Apr 2007, 18:19 GMT | reply to this comment | Some user might think that YM is the only solution for chatting because it includes support for all native functions provided by the company. For example, Gaim doesn't offer support for audibles so YM has a big advantage. However, if you want a simple way to communicate with your friends using the Yahoo network, you can try one of these methods. |
| Comment #3 by: nemo on 24 Feb 2008, 10:43 GMT | reply to this comment | If you want to have cam support either you will have to pay for the Trillian pro version or wait until the developers of Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim) deem the feature as necessary.
All in all you are better off with the official messenger if you need to use certain features as they are simply not there on other clients. |
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