Worth the Wait
| Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 | --Sean |
Two cool things today! In a sense, this is a make-up post to apologize for missing Monday, and it's also just on a topic that I can't bear to delay posting about.
In a comment posted earlier by Earnest, he asked, "Any word on an OSX update?"
The word is: Yup.
It's a US release for now and seems to be for OS X 10.3.9 and up, but it's a huge step in the right direction. Enjoy!
Dang it Sean! Now I'll have to change tomorrow's post! Geez, I try to be lazy and look what happens. ;)
Ok, here's the added info about the new Mac Messenger:
Needless to say, the Y!Messenger Mac team REALLY wants to hear feedback about this. You can get to it from the help menu.
From what I've heard, this rewrite features:
- A complete rewrite, from the ground up. (So THAT'S why it's been a while!)
- Entirely new UI written in Cocoa and designed for Mac OS X
- Avatar and display image support, custom stealth settings, webcam support
- Animated sign-in, sign-out and contact list
- support for Growl Notifications
- Alerts for Calendar, Mail and Personals (which one assumes will be using those nifty Growl Notifications
So, all you mac-types out there, have at! And now you'll be one step ahead of the folks using Windows stuff (Well, I mean, other than "again", but this time I mean just Y!IM) since you've got integration with MSN built in.
Oh, did I mention that we're rolling out support for MSN messenger soon?
--jr