More wee tips and tricks for Yahoo Messenger ;-)

[Send the Same Message...]
[BUZZing a Friend]
[Stop the BUZZ!]
[Fonts/Colours..]


Send the Same Message...
... to all your friends at the same time. Sorta like SPAMming your friends but in a nice way ;-) You want to let all your friends know something and the online status message just isn't going to cut it and the idea of typing the same message out 15+ times seems like insanity.. save yourself the brain power and do the following.
Hold the ctrl key down
left click the names of you friends that you want to send the message to
release the ctrl key (all the names should be highlighted blue)
now right click one of the names
select Send a Message

type your message
hit send
ta da!
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Buzzing a Friend...

Ok.. so you've been talking to your friend and it appears they've nodded off to sleep (or worse yet they've totally forgotten you're even there!) and you've got to get their attention some way, here's how to do it...
with the message window to them open
Hit Ctrl+G on your keyboard
This will make their message window vibrate
generating a 'ding' sound
And a bright red BUZZ!!! will appear in the message window
Now if that doesn't get their attention nothing will!
Note: you can only do this every 13 seconds
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Stop the BUZZING!
As mentioned above BUZZ!!! is a very useful wee tool.. but boy it can drive you nuts and sometimes every 13 seconds is just too close for comfort so here's how top turn it OFF! (Thanks Steve-e for saving my sanity!)

Launch Yahoo Messenger click Login
select Preferences
under the Appearance category find Alerts and Sounds
select A Friend Buzzes me
uncheck Shaking the Instant Message Window
uncheck Playing a Sound
hit Apply
hit OK

Peace and Quiet reigns again ;-)
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Font/Text Effects...
Messengers latest version has a nifty feature that allow you to personalize your font colours to suit not only your taste but the flavour as well so go forth and play...

Font/Text Effect (Standard)


To set your color preferences as your default...

With Yahoo Messenger launched click Login select Preferences
under the Appearance category find Default Colors for Composing Messages
Hit Fonts and Colors
under Color Effects hit Choose Effect
hit OK select the colours you want to use
then under Use Color Effect select either
Use Blend Color EffectBlend

or
Use Alternate Colors Effect

once you've made the choice of style and colour hit OK


To just play around in an instant message window...
hit Format select Color Effects select the colours you want to use
then under Use Color Effect select either
Use Blend Color EffectBlend or
Use Alternate Colors Effect
once you've made the choice of style and colour hit OK

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