Yahoo! Messenger 7 Tutorials

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Address Book: a listing of people and their email addresses associated with each Yahoo! Mail account.
4-star rating tool: a graphical evaluation tool consisting of four stars and a ban icon, used to rate music, artists, albums, and genre.
AAC: (Advanced Audio Coding) an audio file format; AAC files use the .aac extension.
Avatar: a character that you can personalize to express your mood at any given time. It's like a virtual you. By changing hairstyles, clothes, accessories, and backgrounds, you can create your own unique persona.

Blocked address: an email address or domain from which you never want to receive messages.
Blocked list: a user-defined list of sources or domains from which Pop-Up Blocker always blocks pop-up windows.

Chat: an online discussion to which multiple users can contribute simultaneously.
Chat room: an area online where you can chat with other Internet users in real-time.
Clipboard: a temporary storage area in Windows that is used for storing various types of data (such as text, graphics, sound, and video). The clipboard can hold one piece of information at a time for use in a program or to cut/copy and paste information between programs.
Contact: a person with whom you interact; someone to whom you might want to send an email or instant message.
Content tab: a tab at the bottom of the Messenger window that provides access to additional Yahoo! features, such as sports and games.
Conversation: an exchange of instant messages between you and a contact.

Display image: a picture or avatar that represents you in some way and that you share with your contacts during IM conversations.
Download: to transfer a file from a remote computer to your computer.

Emoticon: a small character that shows someone how you feel during an IM conversation, such as happy , sad , or laughing .
Emotions: words or phrases that help you express your feelings in a chat room.

Group: one or more contacts that you organize together under one unique name, similar to an email list. By default, Yahoo! Messenger adds contacts to the "Friends" group included in the application.

Ignore List: a list of people from whom you don't want to see or hear anything while you're using Yahoo! Messenger.
IM: the acronym for instant message.
IMVironment (IMV): a themed environment that you can select when instant messaging your friends. Potentially, both you and your friends see the IMV during your conversation.
Instant messaging: the ability to exchange messages in real time with other people over the Internet.

LAUNCHcast Radio: a streaming music service that allows you to create your own customized station tailored to your tastes and provides an extensive collection of other music stations that offer a wide variety of genres and themes to choose from.
Leader: the subject with the greatest buzz score on a given day. Subjects are the most searched subjects on Yahoo! for that day.

Message input area: the text box at the bottom of the IM conversation window where you type in your message.
Messenger List: a list of coworkers, friends, family, and associates who also use Yahoo! Messenger.
Mover: the subjects with the greatest percentage increase in buzz score from one day to the next.

Offline: not connected to the Internet or any other network.
On hold: when the connection during a phone call is maintained, but the person on the other end cannot hear anything on your end.
Online: connected to the Internet.

Profile: a public web page provided with a Yahoo! ID that lets others learn something about the person associated with the ID, such as hobbies and favorite links. You and each of your contacts have a profile that others can view. You can have more than one profile and choose which profile others see.
Prompt: a message that guides the user to take some action, such as "Please leave a message after the tone."

Ringtone: a brief audio file played to indicate an incoming call. You can select your preferred ringtone in Yahoo! Messenger.

Skin: a color choice for the windows that Messenger uses.
Slide bar: control that allows you to scroll vertically through the thumbnail images in the Shared Photos side panel.
Slider: the position indicator on a slide bar. You can drag the slider along the slide bar to change the selected thumbnail.
Slideshow: a self-running presentation that displays larger versions of the photos, one at a time, on a photos page.
Smart tag: information, such as a phone number or email address, found in an instant message and underlined for your use. Clicking a smart tag allows you to act on the information, such as sending a text message to a mobile phone number, sending an email to an email address, or adding the information to your address book.
Spammer: someone who sends spam.
Stealth setting: a setting that allows you to choose when specific contacts see you as online or offline.
Synchronize: to cause items in multiple locations to match exactly.

Virus: a computer program that attaches itself to other programs and causes harm to computer software, data, and/or hardware, often undetected until it is too late.
Voice message: a message left in the caller's own voice for the intended recipient to listen to later.