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Have you guys tried the new beta of the famous instant messenger?
Just installed it and I was blown away with the new look! Take a peek:
The one above has my favorite skin so far, you have 7 default skins available. Aside from that, there are more emoticons to choose from, which I heard were based from the winners in the previous emoticon contest (But I will have to confirm this).
There are also these new technical features like the media player, which can view Yahoo! video and YouTube video directly on the message window. I could not try it out because all my contacts still use the old YM. This will only work between YM 9 Beta to YM 9 Beta chat.
Since it's beta, there are sure to be bugs/annoyances, I found 3 (Ohhhh, I love beta testing):
- Whenever the client is minimized to the tray, then the ads change, I get out of focus with other applications.
- When you click a contact, a box pops up immediately, which is a little annoying/distracting.
- Added on 11.07.2007: When you change skins, the contact search bar re-appears when in the first place you have hidden it. And if you check the settings, it is actually set to hide, but its not.
- Added on 11.08.2007: When you're chatting with someone, then he/she logouts, there are no visual signs that he/she did (Unlike the old one, you'll see <nick has logged out>), I don't know if this was intended or they just simply forgot. UPDATE 11.21.2007: Weird, in other PCs I've tested it on, this does not occur, on my office PC and others it does? All OSs are XP...
That's all I've found so far.
If you also wanna try it out, fetch the downloader from this address - http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ - :D
See ya!
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Picture this, you have 9,999 .doc files. You decide to zip/rar it to save space. But you thought, "I want them individually archived so that I wouldn't have to open a huge zip/rar file just to find a file." But doing that could each up your time, doesn't it? Want a solution, read on!
You might not be aware of it, but one of the most famous archiving utility (WinRAR) already has this feature. You can fetcha demo at their site - http://www.rarlab.com - :D
So here's how you do it.
- Compile all the files that you want to compress individually into a single directory.
- Select/highlight all the files.
- Right-click, click Add to archive... (you should enable context menu for WinRAR)
- Choose between RAR or ZIP (I prefer RAR, better compression level in most instances)
- Choose a compression level. (I usually go for the slowest/best)
- Go to the"Files" tab.
- Look at the "Archive" group, check the "Put each file to separate archive" checkbox. (Check my screenshot below if you can't find it)
- Click Ok.
- Watch and see the magic happen.
Hope this tip helps! Until next time!