Looking for your Contacts
| Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | --Sean |
Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta recently launched with all sorts of upgraded bells and whistles. One of the more drastic visual departures is your contacts are presented by default with larger avatars and fancy rollover options. While this is pretty and emphasizes the fact that the focus is on your friends in this release (or it's friend-happy, whatever that means), it does make it a bit harder to quickly scan for contacts because you have so many fewer visible at one time. But why scan for contacts when you can just search? The whole issue is sidestepped by the handy new EDIT: old but new-to-me Contact Search Bar (which you can show/hide from the Show/Hide menu option), which does exactly what you might expect in a straightforward autocomplete fashion. For my tastes, I still revert back to the compact view, but either way, the search bar means I don't have to worry about losing my contacts again.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:06 am
“… the handy new Contact Search Bar (which you can show/hide from the Show/Hide menu option)…”
New !??
Where’ve you been ? That Search Bar has been there for about a year already, in version 8.
Anyway, I agree the larger avatars only lasted until I found how to get back to “compact” real quick. (I think Y! is just trying to copy Windows Live there!?)
October 31st, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Oops. If I haven’t seen it, it’s new to me? :D Editing post for improved accuracy, thanks.