How to Use the White Board Feature on Yahoo! Messenger

Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging application and protocol that allows you to chat online with friends and family. The Yahoo! Messenger software has a number of features that are designed to enrich the standard chat experience with video, voice and interactive features such as a shared white board that can be used to doodle or play games with your contacts. The Yahoo! Scribbler plug-in provides quick access to a collaborative white board that can be shared with friends.

Instructions

1. Launch Yahoo! Messenger.

2. Double-click a contact to initiate an instant messaging conversation.

3. Click the "Plug-ins" button in the messaging toolbar.

4. Select the "My Plug-ins" tab and then click "Yahoo! Scribbler." This will open a white board and invite your contact to install the plug-in if he does not have it already so that he can interact with the white board as well.

5. Doodle or play games using the paint brush, shapes or lines functions that are available in the right-hand sidebar of Yahoo! Scribbler. You can upload your images to Flickr by clicking the Flickr icon.

References

• Yahoo!: Plug-ins - Yahoo Scribbler
• Yahoo!: Messenger All Help - Using Plug-ins for Yahoo! Messenger