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Archives for August 2009

UPDATED: Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone

August 25, 2009 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

Last week, Yahoo! Messenger product manager Sarah Bacon put her foot in her mouth when she complained on the Y! Messenger blog that Apple was taking so long to approve their updated Yahoo! Messenger iPhone app. Somehow she missed the fact that the app has been resubmitted with some changes, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: iPhone Tagged With: Instant Messaging, iPhone, messenger, Mobile, yahoo

Preview Yahoo! Messenger 10

August 24, 2009 by Jeff Hester 4 Comments

Yahoo today announced availability of the Yahoo! Messenger 10 beta. What's in the new beta? High-quality video calls, a "Y! Updates" view of your contact list that turns Messenger into a Twitter stream, new ways to sort your contacts and support for 16 different languages. High-Quality Video … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Yahoo! Messenger Tagged With: beta, Instant Messaging, instant messaging, yahoo

Pidgin 2.6.1 Update

August 23, 2009 by Jeff Hester 4 Comments

Pidgin, the best multi-network instant messenger for Linux just got better. John Bailey provides all the details, which include two notable new features: Voice and Video - Thanks to Mike Ruprecht's Summer of Code project last year, libpurple has been updated to support voice and video. Pidgin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Instant Messaging Tagged With: instant messaging, Pidgin

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

August 23, 2009 by Jeff Hester 9 Comments

Webcomic xkcd nails it again with their Tech Support Cheat Sheet for "non computer people." If you've ever been called on for your computer help, you'll want to print this out and distribute to your family, co-workers, grandparents, and other "non techies." It's so true. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: sunday funny

Facebook Pages Can Tweet

August 21, 2009 by Mark Andrews 2 Comments

Truth, as they say, is stranger than fiction. Facebook has produced an app that will automatically send Facebook Page updates to Twitter, allowing businesses, organizations, bands -- anyone with a Facebook Page -- to have posts automatically generate a tweet to their Twitter followers. The details … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Social Networks Tagged With: Facebook, social media, Twitter

Adium Update Fixes Vulnerability

August 21, 2009 by Mark Andrews 1 Comment

Adium, my favorite multi-network instant messaging app for the Mac, has released version 1.3.6. The new version includes an updated libpurple to fix a vulnerability with the MSN protocol as well as an updated version of the Facebook chat plugin and numerous bug fixes. If you use Adium, I highly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Instant Messaging Tagged With: Adium, Instant Messaging, instant messaging, Mac, OSX

Nimbuzz Launches on Android

August 19, 2009 by Jeff Hester 2 Comments

Nimbuzz has launched an Android version of their "mobile social messaging" application.  Like it's iPhone sibling, the Nimbuzz Android app lets you connect to multiple IM and social networks, including Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Skype, Facebook and others. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: android, instant messaging, Mobile, nimbuzz, social networking

ICQ 6.5 HTML Injection Bug

August 19, 2009 by Jeff Hester Leave a Comment

The venerable IM is vulnerable. SecuObs.com reports that popular instant messenger ICQ ("I seek you"), version 6.5 is vulnerable to HTML-injection attack. What does this mean? The incoming message window in the vulnerable ICQ client works like a mini web browser. An attacker can try to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: ICQ Tagged With: ICQ, Instant Messaging, instant messaging, security

Trillian Astra 4.0 Launches

August 15, 2009 by Jeff Hester 5 Comments

After an extensive public beta, Trillian Astra has officially launched. Trillian Astra is a popular multi-network instant messenger and communication tool that has been around for a long time. This new version brings a much-needed update to that Trillian legacy. Competition is good for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Instant Messaging Tagged With: astra, Instant Messaging, instant messaging, trillian

BigBlueBall Featured at the StudioPress Showcase

August 12, 2009 by Jeff Hester 5 Comments

Back on March 1st, we introduced an extensive redesign of BigBlueBall to make it easier for you to participate in our community. We revamped the front end of our site to leverage the powerful-but-flexible Wordpress back end. We made it possible to comment without registering, and made it possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Site News Tagged With: design

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