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Google talk :

- Create a shortcut of GTalk on your desktop .
- Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select properties.
- Modify target location text from

“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu
to
“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex

- Click OK.
- Now u can open GTalk any number of instances.

Yahoo messenger :

- Go to Start -> Run -> Type regedit and press Enter
- Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER->> Software ->> Yahoo ->> pager ->>Test
- Right click on test -> choose new Dword value and rename it as Plural.
- Double click it -> assign a decimal value of 1.
- Close registry and restart yahoo messenger.
- Now u can open yahoo messenger any number of instances.

- Open your instant messenger (Gtalk,Yahoo,MSN) and add service@gtalk2voip.com to your buddy/contact list.After adding you can see service@gtalk2voip.com appears to be online.
- Now IM HELP and you will get a list of available commands.if you are lazy then directly IM RADIO command to service@gtalk2voip.com and you will get the list of free radio stations.
- As you get the list of available radio station,just IM RADIO NUMBER (Ex – RADIO 202)
- A automatically generated IM appears on the screen - Please, accept call from gtalk2voip.Just accept the call and you can listen to radio for free.
- Add to your contact list NUMBER@radio.gtalk2voip.com (works with Google Talk).
Ex. 202@radio.gtalk2voip.com Just press Call button to connect to the radio station and you will get live online Internet radio.

Yahoo! with your music.

If you want to let your friends what your listening to in Media Player or Winamp while chatting you can change your status to what you listening in Yahoo Messenger using a cool plugin for Yahoo Messenger : yStatus that lets you show what you are listening to in Windows Media Player.

YStatus updates your Yahoo Messenger status text with the currently playing song info from Windows Media Player.


For Winamp there is a similar plugin named YMS Status Changer.

You can find ur friend who is INVISIBLE on yahoo messenger...

- Open the chat window of ur friend.

- Click IMVironment button, select See all IMVironments, select Yahoo! Tools or Interactive Fun, and click on Doodle.

If the user is offline Doodle are will show this "waiting for your friend to load Doodle" continuously .See in the picture below:


If the user is online (but in invisible mode), after few seconds (it can take up to one minute, depending on your connection speed), you should get a blank page like in the picture below. So you know that the user is online.

If you have multiple yahoo ID's and wants to login with more than one yahoo ID at the same time then don't worry, you can login with more than one yahoo ID at the same time using this tip. There is no need to install any other yahoo multi messenger version, you can easily covert your normal yahoo messenger into multi messenger and enjoy your many ID's at the same time.

Follow the given steps to change the yahoo messenger registry value:


- Click Start button and type regedit in Run option then press Enter for next.

- Here locate the location to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Yahoo/Pager/Test

- Here in right side panel, right click to create a new Dword value with name Plural and give it value 1.

- Now close the registry editor and restart your computer after any changes to go into effect.

-For signing in with new YAHOO ID open another messenger open as many messengers you need.

-If you want to disable the multiple messenger option then again open registry editor and change Plural value 1 to 0.

You can directly compose email directly from the yahoo serach bar directly without going to ur yahoo mail and clicking compose button.Try this cool trick now...

Go to yahoo home page and type !mail xyz@abc.com in the SEARCH BAR. xyz@abc.com is the email ID to whom you want to compose and press 'web search'.You will be directed to ur yahoomail and the compose mail page appers automatically with the ID u hav given... Looks cool eh..

You must have come across the Yahoo! Messenger Insider popup (image below) when you login into the Yahoo messenger...



To get rid of this popup screen:
1. Login using the Yahoo messenger.
2. Go to Messenger >> Preferences.
3. The Yahoo messenger preferences window appears (image below).
Now, select the General category and uncheck Show Yahoo! Messenger Insider in the When I sign in to Yahoo! Messenger section.


The popup won't appear the next time you sign in to Yahoo messenger.