AIM Chat Rooms are a quick and easy way of communicating via the Internet. Two or more people can create a private environment and have control over who can enter the chat room. While many people use AIM Chat Rooms to keep in touch with friends and relatives, other people use AIM Chat Rooms to communicate with educational instructors and business acquaintances. How do I start an AIM chat room? Before anyone can begin or participate in an AIM chat, you will need to install AOL Instant Messenger client on Read More

Smileys or Emoticons are patterns of text when typed in a particular sequence, can be used to convey an emotion or feeling. Usually the simple text based Smileys are viewed by turning your head sideways to the left. For example, the 🙂 emoticon when viewed sideways, is used to convey happiness or to smile at someone. Another example, the 🙁 emoticon can be used to convey sadness or to frown at someone. Instead of text based emoticons that many people use in their email messages, Yahoo Inc. has created 3-D Read More

Users of popular instant messaging services such as MSN messenger or the Microsoft Live services may run into the dilemma of one or more of their contacts blocking them. This curiosity can really cause issues, especially if the person on the other end is of some importance to the user. The ability to check the person’s status is really dependent on a variety of factors. In essence, users are not supposed to know who blocked or deleted them unless they are told. The program was designed to help ensure the Read More

Skype is an instant messaging software that the international community uses because of its vast collection of features and interactive social networking options. Although Skype was first introduced as a basic instant messaging software, it has included audio and video conversations to its tool set over recent years. Additionally, each user has a unique profile and can modify text via font options and emoticons while conducting audio and video conversations with the aid of a microphone and/or webcam.   What is Skype Video? Skype Video is a Skype feature that Read More

Yahoo Messenger is an instant messaging software, provided by Yahoo, which allows users to instantly communicate with each other via text-based messages, audio recordings, live audio feeds, and webcam feeds. Yahoo Messenger allows users to contact any of their Yahoo or Facebook friends, as well as import contacts from other email addresses, and can support conversations between multiple users simultaneously in live conferences.   How To Install Yahoo Messenger In order to install Yahoo Messenger, you will need to download the program from the Yahoo Messenger Official Homepage and run Read More

MSN Emoticons are small icons that you can use to quickly express emotions during the course of conversation on Windows Messenger. An emoticon conventionally consists of an expressive, cartoon-like face depicting emotions, for example a yellow smiley happy face. The range of depictable emotions is broad, with most positive, happy emotions using a yellow character, with the exception of the angriest emoticon, which is appropriately bright red. It is possible to convey feelings and actions ranging from happiness, anger, embarrassment and upset through to illness, thought and sarcasm. As well Read More

Yahoo Web Messenger is an instant messaging service, provided by Yahoo, which is integrated into Yahoo Mail and does not require users to download any software. Yahoo Web Messenger is the same software as the popular Yahoo Messenger, but is provided via the user’s browser instead of his/her desktop. Yahoo Web Messenger allows users to communicate with Yahoo, Facebook, and Windows Live contacts and requires users to run Internet Explorer 8 or later, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Safari.   How Yahoo Web Messenger Works Yahoo Web Messenger is available Read More

When Meebo is blocked at your school or work place, you can use a variety of techniques to access the site. Perhaps one of the simplest methods is to use a proxy website. A proxy website is a web page which allows you to browse your favourite web sites even though your access to those web sites might be blocked by a content filter. You learn more about and find an updated and unblocked list of proxy websites here. Proxies, however, are highly susceptible to phishing attacks and significantly increase Read More

Skype is an instant messaging software that allows users to communicate in a variety of ways including instant messaging, audio calls, and video calls. Skype is used worldwide as one of the most popular instant messaging programs available because it allows users to effortlessly contact each other in ways that few other instant messaging programs do not. In addition to providing free audio and video calls to other Skype users, Skype also allows users to call land-lines and mobile phones, including international lines, for a small fee. Additionally, Skype is Read More

There are two different types of AIM Icons used with AOL Instant Messenger, buddy icons, and AIM message icons. A buddy icon is an icon that the user selects to associate with the screenname they use. Typically these icons are a picture of the user that the user likes, or an image of a hobby, character from media, or other interesting image. Buddy icons are 50 pixels by 50 pixels, and can have a color depth of up to 32-bits. AIM users can choose to display or block buddy icons Read More