Naveen's Journal

I just received this forwarded email with instructions on how to activate multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger on the same machine without the use of any software. I tried it out and its awesome! Working really fine. Just follow the instructions below and you are all set:

1. Go to Start —-> Run . Type regedit, then enter
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER ——–> Software —> Yahoo!  —–>pager—->Test
3. On the right pane , right-click and choose new Dword value
4. Rename it as Plural
5. Double click and assign a decimal value of 1
6. Now close registry and restart Yahoo! messenger .For signing in with new id open another messenger. Open as many messengers u need

The above has been tested on Windows XP and Yahoo! Messenger Version 8.1.

Cheers

Another Ajax Wonder we have for our disposal. For all Yahoo! Mail+Firefox users theres this cool plugin that saves you from entering the inbox for every message. All you need is to click on the ‘+‘ sign beside every mail, which is put by this plugin, and wow..! you have a drop-down preview of that mail right outside your inbox! However big that mail might be, and whatever it contains, it shows up everything. Just click on the sign again to close the preview and proceed with the next. Referred to me by Anant , i’m finding it quite handful. You can download it from HERE .

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PS-Will soon be putting up a list of great FF Extensions I use, in the sidebar. Keep Watching

Yahoo and Microsoft to Merge Instant Messengers: “Primotech writes ‘Betanews has word that Microsoft and Yahoo plan to link their respective IM clients again so that users of both can communicate with each other on one, shared network. Facing threats from third-party applications, like Trillian and Skype, the two tech giants will claim 44% of the instant messaging market, analysts predict. They will also go head to head together with the biggest competitor, AOL.’”

G O O G L E …. these are the 6 letters that flashed through your mind after reading the title of this post. HAHAHA. But it isn’t what i’m talking about. So claims Preview Seek , the newest kid on the search engine block, giving a full page description Here , about how it manages to make a claim that will pass on with most netizens as just another stab at Google and justifying scientifically that how it is better than google. Anyways, the frontpage of the site is catchy enough with minimum fuss and but for the colors, it resembles to that of google to a great extent. But the unique and quite useful features that Preview Seek has incorporated, definitely gives a reason to stand up and take notice of it. Specially the categorised search results and the real time search viewer link at the right most corner of the green bar ( It shows the search strings being submitted to the engine from all over the world in real time) are mentionworthy. The company seems to have collaborated with Wikipedia to provide information about the searched items (unless it does not want to get involved in some serious legal battles!) as the results are identical to those provided by the latter. All in all, a good package to start with, and if marketed aggresively, who knows we might have google to do some serious thinking after starting to get some competition …(Did you say “Microsoft and Yahoo are already there!”.. huh, i’m talking about competition, not copy-etition) . What say??