New, improved look and functionality for your profile.

Based on feedback from the user throughout the last few months, yahoo has made some changes to the user profile that will help user more easily share who are on the Web with there friends. Here are the things to see…

First, you will notice that the layout of the tabs on the crest of your profile changed and yahoo had added a fourth tab for you to access your Account Info. You can now mouse over these tabs with no trouble to see options for each topic instead of having to leave your profile to find your settings. Don’t worry, if you desire to use the “Profile Settings” link, for this yahoo have kept that for you but just moved it down beside your profile photo.

Second, yahoo changed your profile photo simpler. All you need to do is mouse over your recent photo and click the “Change Photo” link that appears. Make sure to post an updated photo of yourself to help your friends find you when they hunt for your profile in the recently designed “Find People” search bar (in the “Connections” module at the top right of the page).

Third, as part of these design changes, yahoo wanted to put your “Updates” front and center. With the new-fangled “My Updates” section on your profile, you can go for your favorite sites you would like to share updates from, see what your updates look like, and even control who sees these updates through the “Manage My Updates” link. If you’ve previously clogged the “Share Sharing Updates from Other Websites” module, you can still affix other websites by clicking “Share More.”

And finally, you will now start seeing Birthday reminders for your connections. Yahoo is very much excited to bring you this new feature, so that you will never miss an imperative birthday! Your friends will be gifted to see your birthday approaching as well if you share your birthday. Take a look at the Birthdays help section for more information.

Go and look at the new look along with the functionality of your profile; it will make it much easier for you to check-in on the things and people that matter to you most!

Versions 6 – 7.5 will come to an end on September 30

Yahoo will be retiring Yahoo! Messenger versions 6.0 through 7.5.

This means that if you are presently using a version of Yahoo! Messenger that is under 8.0, you will no longer be capable to sign in and use it after September 30.

If you make use of the version that is set to retire, you have a number of options for continuing to make use of Yahoo! Messenger:

Option 1: Download the most recent version for Windows

You can make use of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 which offers enhanced security and better security from spam (info | video demo | download).

We also have a new Beta on hand, Yahoo! Messenger 10. This newest version offers enhanced video calling features, more ways to stay up with all your friends, and a new menu with the intention of makes it easy to switch languages. (info | video demo | download)

Option 2: Make use of Yahoo! Messenger for the Web

If you cannot make use of the latest version mentioned above, you can always log in to Yahoo! Messenger for the Web from any web browser. No added download or installation is required. With its web version, you can send IM’s and SMS text messages to your friend’s mobile phones for free of charge. This web version also includes anywhere archiving and it also allows you to access your message history from any computer or browser and you can try it now at http://webmessenger.yahoo.com.

Option 3: Make use of the built-in IM feature in Yahoo! Mail

Both versions of Yahoo! Mail put forward a built-in feature that lets you send as well as receive IMs. If you are using the all-new Yahoo! Mail, just click the status menu next to your name in the upper header and modify your status to “Available”. This will sign you into Yahoo! Messenger (you also have the alternative of staying invisible). IM conversations occur in separate tabs in your Mail page.

In Yahoo! Mail Classic, you will see a module on the left hand side of the page labeled “Chat & Mobile Text”. You just click on the status menu in that module to change to “Available” or Invisible and IM conversations will show up in a small box in the lower right corner of your Yahoo! Mail Classic page (however it won’t interfere with your Mail messages or using Mail).

As an alternative, there are also solutions on hand for your mobile phone. We recently launched Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone and additionals versions are obtainable for other mobile devices.

Google Updates Picasa Photo Editing Software

Google releases Picasa 3.5, an updated version of its free photo editing software. With Picasa you can easily edit as well as organize your images, and sync and you can also share them with Picasa Web Albums and Google's online photo-sharing site.

The most noteworthy toting up in this release is an improved version of Picasa's people-tagging feature; previously it is only available in Picasa Web Albums. Further improvements include Google Maps integration for faster as well as easier geotagging, a smarter keyword-tagging interface, and added importing options.

When you first launch Picasa 3.5, it scans each and every image on your computer and it also groups similar faces. You can then go all the way through and add name tags one at a time or in bulk. If you previously use name tags in your Picasa Web Albums, you can log into your Google account and you can also download that information to the Picasa application (Tools-> Download Name Tags from Picasa Web Albums).

Signing in also means you can use your Google contacts list while tagging people. Picasa will automatically generate an album for each person you tag.

Geotagging is very much easier in 3.5. In the Places panel, a Google map displays the locations of your geotagged photos. To affix location information to photos, you can seek directly in the panel and add a pin, or drag and drop an image or images on the map from your library.

Picasa's import features have also been very much improved. At present it is possible to upload images directly to Picasa Web Albums from your camera, iPhone, or else memory card. Before importing you can pick which images to include or exclude. For instance, you could go for to upload all of the images to your hard drive, but only starred images to the Web.

This update is meant for both Mac as well as PCs, and is the first Mac version of Picasa to drop the beta label.

Google updates - Chrome browser to stable 3.0

Google has updated their Chrome browser this week towards a stable version 3.0, and also announced that an official Mac version will be obtainable before the end of the year.

Chrome has been on the market for about one year now, and it has seen quick upgrades, mostly speed tweaks as well as compatibility updates. In contrast, Mozilla Firefox has been approximately for over five years and is currently in working version 3.5.

The browser market is still subjugated by Internet Explorer, which (with combining versions 6, 7, 8), has around 67 percent market share. Firefox, Chrome as well as Safari have been taking share gradually however, and IE's share has ruined from 95 percent in 2003. Chrome currently has just fewer than 3 percent market share.

"If at the two-year birthday we are not at least 5 percent in market share, I will be extremely disappointed. And if at the three year birthday we are not at 10 percent, I will be extremely disappointed," says Chrome Engineering Director Linus Upson.

In spite of his public goals, Upson says Google's internal goals are even steeper.

In addition the standard speed tweaks and interface updates, version 3.0 also brings "themes," which will permit users to customize the browser.

One of the most imperative obstacles for Chrome has been merely just breaking into the market. Internet Explorer comes pre-installed in each and every Windows machines, and lots of users simply go on the browser they are well-known with.

In recent times, Google made a deal with Sony to have the Chrome browser pre-installed in a few VAIO laptops. Google says it is planning alike deals with other manufacturers.

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