By George Norman
Added on 17 Nov 2009(972 Views)



A few days ago Yahoo! has released the final, stable version of Yahoo! Messenger 10. If you are still on Yahoo! Messenger 9, you are very well advised to upgrade. If you do not know how, check out the detailed, step-by-step tutorial presented here. Once you have Yahoo! Messenger 10 installed on your system, you will want to play with the software application’s new features. One such feature is the option to sort contacts by availability.

As Senior Product Manager with Yahoo! Messenger Sarah Bacon explained, “if you usually show all contacts in your list whether they’re online or not, this will help bring the online friends to the top.”

Here is what you have to do to sort contacts by availability in Yahoo! Messenger 10:

Step 1. Launch Yahoo! Messenger 10

Step 2. Use your login credentials to sing into your account.

Step 3. In the main Yahoo! Messenger window you will notice a big button that says Contacts. Click it.

Step 4. Now click the down arrow (the right hand side of the button).

Step 5. A dropdown menu will appear. Click Sort by Availability and you’re done.

Tips and warnings

Yahoo! Messenger 10 comes with numerous other improvements. Here’ a list:
- Works with Windows 7.
- High quality video calls.
- Y! Updates, an alternative contacts list view that displays a stream of updates, in real-time.
- The option to arrange Yahoo! Messenger contacts by recent activity (not just availability).
- Enhanced language support. On the sign-in screen there’s a language menu that lets you pick from 16 different languages. Alternatively you can switch from one language to another from Messenger -> Preferences -> Language.
- Enhanced Yahoo! Insider that encompasses the following: Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! news, Yahoo! Weather, and Yahoo! Search.
- Updated IM window icons.
- Enhanced Yahoo! Updates controls that let you choose if updates from certain contacts will be displayed or not.
- If you make a call to a friend and he does not pick up within 20 seconds, the call will be automatically terminated.
- If your internet connection cannot support a full video call, it is downgraded to audio-only.



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asfag - 24 Jun 2011 17:03
Thatnks a lot.!!!

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