Recent content by pinkcyclone

Well I sent my little rant to yahoo and they gave me a reply - how helpful!!! Hello, Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Messenger. Due to our ongoing efforts to enhance the user experience, Java-based chat is no longer available from Yahoo! Chat (or Yahoo! Groups). We are focusing on...

Thanks for that! I'm downloading it now and I'll give it a try. Until I switched to the mac, I used yahoo and msn all the time and one thing I will note is that neither have adverts on the mac messenger, nor does yahoo mac have the stupid bt communicator (in the uk) which means the program...

Well I've never been one to moan and do nothing so I've downloaded the latest version of fire. It's a multi-im client that can connect you with all your favourite im networks (msn yahoo) so you can connect to all your yahoo! friends without using yahoo. http://fire.sourceforge.net/

So, if you have logged on to yahoo chat, you will see that they have abandoned java in favour of using their messenger service. A rubbish idea especially when you realise that yahoo chat is now only available on windows computers. Yes its true - yahoo is abandoning its mac users and doesn't...

I use a BT Voyager (also known as a globespan adsl modem) 105 and downloaded and installed the modem drivers but when I connect to aol, it doesn't recognise the modem. My model is not on the aol modem list so I can't use it. I decided to buy a netgear adsl firewall router (DG834) and connected...

Well I'm really excited! I have been using windows for years and first it was "virus protection" then it was "firewall" then it was "spyware" then it was "critical windows xp security update" I format my pc every 3 weeks (a month if I'm lucky) and I had to download 42 security updates last week...