Download Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final for Windows or Yahoo! Messenger 3 for Mac

After several months in beta, the Yahoo! Messenger 10 is now out of the beta version. The final version of the Yahoo! Messenger 10 (10.0.0.1102) has been incorporated with many bug fixes, including some related to new video call feature as well as improved overall stability.





According to Yahoo! Messenger blog, Yahoo! Messenger 10 includes the following features:

• Enhanced video calling – feel like you’re there with high-quality, full screen video and voice calling.
• Keep up with what your friends are doing – see your friend’s latest updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more with the new “Updates” view.
• Improved language support – change your preferred language in Yahoo! Messenger with just a few clicks High-quality video calls.
• Instant Messaging – send text messages in real-time to your friends on Yahoo! Messenger.
• Chat Rooms – Join a chat room to meet new friends while you discuss your favorite topics.
• Photo Sharing – share photos from your desktop or Flickr, then discuss them over IM while you and a friend view them together.
• PC-to-PC Calls – make a voice call to another Yahoo! Messenger user for free (microphone and speakers/headset required).
• Phone Out (PC-to-Phone Calls) – Call friends on their regular or mobile phones from Messenger for as low as 1¢ a minute (Phone Out account required).
• Phone In (Get a Phone Number for Messenger) – get a new phone number that allows you to receive calls in Yahoo! Messenger (Phone In account required).
• SMS (Text Messaging) – send text messages from Messenger to your friends mobile phones for free.
• Webcam- plug in your webcam to share live video with your friends on Yahoo! Messenger.
• IM Conferencing- instant message with many friends at once in a conference room (includes voice capabilities, where available).
• IM with Friends on Other Networks – IM with friends who use Windows Live™ Messenger, Reuters Messaging, and Lotus Sametime — right from Yahoo! Messenger.
• File Transfer – send files instantly to a friend while you IM (2 GB limit).

The new Yahoo! Messenger 10 is currently available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh
, mobile devices, iPhone and a web version. Just head to the following URL to access official Yahoo! Messenger 10 download page, or download standalone offline full version Yahoo! Messenger 10 Final setup installer:

Yahoo! Messenger 10 for Windows: http://rd.software.yahoo.com/msgr/10/msgr10us.exe

Yahoo! Messenger 10 for Mac: http://download.yimg.com/ycs/msg/dl/mac/yahoomessenger_3.0.0build192773.dmg

Yahoo! Messenger 10 for Mobile: m.yahoo.com/messenger
Yahoo! Messenger 10 for iPhone: http://messenger.yahoo.com/platform/iphone/


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BitSnoop – Demonoid and The Pirate Bay Alternative Torrent Search Engine

Many BitTorrent (BT) network lovers may be looking for an alternative and new torrent search engine as some of the popular torrent indexing services such as The Pirate Bay and Demonoid is in the doldrums. The Pirate Bay is continuing hit by lawsuit to shut it down, while Demonoid is having an extended downtime, and severe torrents submission data lost due to hardware problems. BitSnoop, a new torrent indexing site, may worthwhile to be bookmarked for unfortunate circumstances where two largest BT search engines ThePirateBay and Demonoid is unavailable, a situation that looks increasingly likely.


BitSnoop, bases in Moscow, Russia, is a new torrent indexer which uses robots to roam the Internet for any torrents available, and constantly update the torrent health (availability of seeders and leechers). BitSnoop features a Google-like clean and minimalistic user interface, and most importantly, TrackerMatch technology.

TrackerMatch generates torrents at BitSnoop. Tracker Match scans through and cross-references each torrents record, analyze and filter them to exclude typos, errors and just junk in tracker URLs. TrackerMatch locates all good working trackers and reliable backup trackers (useful when main tracker dead or down) for the torrents and removes duplicated torrents or ‘bad’ torrents (with fake trackers) to avoid slow downloads.

BitSnoop currently indexes more than 1.91 million torrents (of which 1.29 million torrents are active) with more than 1,501.1 TB of total file size. And the stat keeps increasing. In short, BitSnoop is definitely one of the stop where people looking for something to download via BitTorrent worth visiting.

Visit BitSnoop at http://bitsnoop.com/.

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How To Send Mail As Hotmail (smtp.live.com) in Gmail

Gmail has added support for send mail through custom domain SMTP servers feature, which allows Gmail to send mail using custom “From:” of another email address as sender instead of default Gmail e-mail address (which include in Sender field and may be displayed as delivery on behalf of actual email address) that been used to send the message. With Send Mail As custom “From:” sender feature, recipients will not notice that the mail is sent from Gmail, but will be actual true identity of the external email address.



When configuring Gmail to send mail through Windows Live Hotmail outbound SMTP server using the recommended Hotmail SMTP settings as listed below, the settings doesn’t work and cannot pass Gmail verification.

SMTP server: smtp.live.com
Port: 25
Username: [username]@hotmail.com
Password: [password]
Always use a secure connection (SSL) when sending mail: Yes (Check)

After adding above SMTP configuration settings for Hotmail in Gmail, the following error message is returned by Gmail:

Couldn’t reach server. Please double-check the server and port number.

Change the SMTP port to 587 also yields the same error result. When connecting at port 465, Gmail hangs a while when checking credentials, and then return the following error:

Your other email provider is responding too slowly. Please try again later, or contact the administrator of your other domain for further information.

It seems that there is problem or issue with Gmail, which cannot access and connect to smtp.live.com using SSL. Thus, in order to send mail as Hotmail identify in Gmail, user has to fallback to unsecured connection to port 25 of Windows Live Hotmail SMTP server.

Thus, the solution is to uncheck and untick the Always use a secure connection (SSL) when sending mail setting and make sure SMTP port is 25.



Of course, the insecure connection without SSL potentially opens a security vulnerability and leaves much to be desired.

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Highlight and Add Sticky Notes To Web Pages Via WebNotes

One great disadvantage about e-reading is you can’t highlight the electronic material or add some notes to them. Of course you can print out the content to make remarks, annotate notes, add comments, etc. However, it consumes time and incurs printing costs if you do so. Furthermore, it creates a lot of hassle for you to compile, organize and store the printout. To make life easier and to overcome the problem, users can try the free e-material highlighter or sticky note. That is how the idea for Webnotes service comes about.



Available free in the basic version, users can sign up with WebNotes to create a personal account. Once the account is created, users can download and install the WebNotes toolbar in the browser. There are various useful buttons available at the toolbar. Users can click the Highlighter button to activate the feature. To highlight some important parts in a page, users just need to drag their mouse across the texts and the highlighted effect will be shown immediately. Users can choose yellow, orange, blue or green to make the marking.


Highlight Important Notes with Various Colors

Besides highlighting important text, users also can click on to the “Sticky Note” button to create annotations and stick on the page.

Stick Note

Users can save the pages appended with notes and highlighted points, or share with others. Users particularly educationists , researchers, students, writers and analysts will find the services in WebNotes useful and practical to record and organize information for future use. Students, for instance, can highlight the key points in some articles and share these within their study group.

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