Instant Messaging

Instant Messaging

eHow covers Instant Messaging with practical, detailed advice for the novice or instant message veteran. Find information on IM services such as AIM, MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. eHow's Internet experts will help you download the right software and start chatting in no time. Learn how to navigate functions from sending files over IM to initiating a group conversation. Or, express yourself with a unique Avatar and the latest Emoticons. eHow can even walk you through IM etiquette.

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  • How to Remove a Blocked Contact Name on the Privacy Screen in Windows Live Messenger

    Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) is an instant messenger client that allows you to chat with friends using text, voice and video. The program recognizes contacts from Yahoo! Instant...

  • Problems With Windows Live Messenger Contacts

    Windows Live Messenger is an instant messaging, or chat, program. Users can interact with other Messenger users through the Internet and can create lists of the users they contact. Contact lists...

  • How to Type Hearts, Musical Notes and Other Symbols on Facebook, IM and Chat

    So many people wonder how their friends make those cute little hearts, smiles and symbols on their MySpace and Facebook posts, but feel too silly to ask how it’s done. Follow these simple steps...

  • How to Change Your MSN Nickname

    The nickname you use for your MSN account identifies you throughout all of the MSN services you use, such as MSN Messenger, MSN Games and the MSN Member Directory. There are many reasons you might...

  • How to Find an AOL Member

    When you initially sign up for an account with America Online, you are required to choose a unique screen name. This screen name will be permanently linked to your AOL account, and when chatting...

  • How to Remove Your Nickname From Someone Else's Friends List on Yahoo Messenger

    Yahoo Messenger is a great program, you can make lots of friends from all over the world quite easily. The only problem comes when you allow some annoying person to add your nickname to their...

  • What Is the File Extension Ctt?

    A file with a CTT file extension is a Messenger Contact List. The CTT file extension serves as a marker for your computer, signaling that the file requires MSN Messenger to open.

  • How to Find Out Who's Reading Your Away Message

    You can't be available to chat online all the time. Eventually you may get called away for a particular reason, and you can mark yourself as away. However, people can and will still send you...

  • How to Find Nemo Avatars

    Most online communities with which you create an account allow you to upload an image, or avatar, to represent yourself. The avatar does not have to be a picture of you. If you want to use a...

  • How to Create Your Own MSN Character

    Windows Live Messenger, also referred to as MSN Messenger and simply as MSN, is an instant-messaging service and client produced by Microsoft. With MSN, you can communicate with friends, family...

  • How to Get a Thumbnail Picture for Windows Live Messenger

    Windows Live Messenger is the newest incarnation of MSN Messenger. Hotmail and MSN users can connect to Messenger to instant message friends and family who also use the service. This program is...

  • How to Make MSN Dolls

    MSN dolls are simply dolls designed in the MSN icon style. MSN icons are found within Windows mail, such as Hotmail and Live, as additional icons you can place within messages to express emotions,...

  • How to Add a Picture on Instant Messaging

    It is becoming increasingly common for Internet users to chat with friends online using one of many available instant messaging clients. Web portals such as Yahoo and AOL typically offer such...

  • How to Make a Shoutbox on Your Web Page

    Installing a shoutbox on your web page requires a few easy steps and after completing them you will be able to exchange instant messages with visitors from all over the world.

  • How to Create Free Yahoo Avatars

    An avatar is a small graphic representation of a computer user for use in such places as a forum, chat room or messenger. It can be a real picture or a created image. Yahoo! offers the biggest...

  • How to Find a Friend on Yahoo Messenger

    Besides its email service and news headlines, Yahoo also offers an instant messaging service called Yahoo Messenger. Downloading Yahoo Messenger takes little time and is free to use. This is a...

  • How to Find a Friend on Aim

    AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM, is an instant-messaging program that allows you to talk to fellow AIM users whenever you are both logged on. AIM contains many features, such as video chat, voice...

  • How to Change Your Skype Name

    Skype is a commonly used Internet-based program that allows you to call other Skype users, anywhere in the world, for free. You can also call house and cell phones provided you have some money in...

  • How to Make Moving Buddy Icons Online

    If you use AIM or another instant messaging service, you probably want to get creative with the buddy icon you display. Buddy icons are thumbnail images that appear on-screen when you are...

  • What Is the File Extension BLT?

    The file extension BLT commonly refers to a saved Buddy List File used by AOL Instant Messenger. More obscurely, it also could refer to a Bluetooth trace file used by the Computer Access...

  • How Do I Get MSN Messenger on My Mobile Phone?

    If you love Windows Live Messenger, but you're constantly on the go, you can have your Messenger on your mobile phone. Whether you have a basic cell phone or a smartphone, Messenger has an option...

  • Emoticon Tutorials

    Because tone of voice is lost while sending messages online, it can be easy to misinterpret someone's words. For this reason, it has become common to use emoticons---short for emotional icons---to...

  • How to Find Contacts on MSN

    MSN Messenger is the instant messaging client provided by the Microsoft Passport Network. As with other instant messaging applications, users are able to add friends' names to their contact list....

  • How to MSG Deleted Yahoo! Contacts

    Instant messaging is a popular form of communication. There are many instant message clients on the Internet, allowing people to talk to each other sending typed messages at rapid speeds. Yahoo!,...

  • How to Download the Old Yahoo Messenger With Voice

    Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging program that allows you to communicate with family and friends through text messages. One of its popular features is voice, which allows you to call and...

  • How to Fix Error Code 1603 for Windows Live Messenger

    Windows Live Messenger is a popular instant-messaging program that allows you to communicate with family and friends anywhere. It generally installs easily but can run into a 1603 error, which...

  • How to Send Auto Messages on MSN

    Using an auto message service while on MSN instant messenger can be extremely helpful when you need to step away from your computer yet don't want to completely sign off from your account. The...

  • How Do I Send a Send Photos With AIM Instant Messages?

    AOL Instant Messenger is one of the most popular messaging services out there. In addition to sending text, it's a great tool for staying in touch in a variety of ways. You can have group...

  • How to Uninstall MSN

    MSN, which is an abbreviation for Microsoft Network, is a compilation of software applications. MSN Messenger is perhaps the most notable of these programs, but the MSN catalog of service also...

  • How to Get MSN on Your Mobile

    Users need not be at their computer to use their MSN email, instant messaging client, and customized content modules such as weather forecasts and news headlines. The MSN Mobile service allows...

  • How to get $10 off $50 purchase on IMVU by 10/31/09

    Purchasing credits and items on IMVU can rack up quick and can get really expensive! So I am giving you all a $10 coupon code to use on any $50 purchase on IMVU!! This particular code expires on...

  • How to Customize Your Own AOL Icons

    When you sign up for a new AOL or AIM account, you are given a screen name and an associated icon picture. This picture is often referred to as a buddy icon, and you can customize it with any...

  • How to Make Your Own Buddy Icon for Free

    Buddy icons are custom avatars that people use in instant messaging programs and on message boards and websites that support icons, such as LiveJournal. Icons can be made out of graphics, text or...

  • How to use instant messaging on Skype

    There are many providers out there that offer instant messaging. Today, we are going to set up an account with Skype. So let’s get started, just follow the steps below to continue.

  • How to Chat in Yahoo Messenger

    Keeping in touch with friends and family around the world is easy to do with Yahoo! Messenger, a free instant messaging client created by Yahoo! in 1998. Yahoo! Messenger allows you to chat with...

  • How to Chat With Someone on MSN Messenger Using Yahoo

    Yahoo! Messenger allows instant messaging across multiple messaging programs, such as Windows Live (MSN) Messenger. Right on your Yahoo! Messenger interface, you can see the online status of Live...

  • How to Change My Password for Windows Live Messenger

    There are several ways to change your Windows Live Messenger password. Because Microsoft's Live service connects several of your account services together, changing of your password in one...

  • How to Delete Furniture in an Imvu Dressing Room

    This will explain how to delete furniture in your imvu 3D chat window for dressing room. Just in case you were to be in your inventory list hiding products and you click add a table to your room,...

  • How to make a room Default in imvu 3D chat version 422.0

    This will describe how to make a room in imvu 3D Chat version 422.0 your default room.

  • Windows Live Messenger Tutorial

    MSN Messenger is a fun, free way to keep in touch with friends and family, whether they are near or far away. If you want to get the most out of your Messenger experiences, you need to be familiar...

  • How Can I Get MSN Winks on My Messenger?

    Winks are fun little animations that you can add to your Windows Live Messenger experience. While you can download winks for your Windows Live Messenger on many sites, it is best to use the winks...

  • How to Uninstall MSN Content Plus

    MSN Content Plus is an add on that you can download and use to enhance your MSN Instant Messenger experience. The add on allows you to have access to more emoticons, backgrounds and winks than you...

  • How to Keep in Touch With Friends and Family

    With today's new and improving technology, staying in touch with friends and family is easier than ever before. Help from the Internet and other mobile devices provide us with the tools necessary...

  • How to Install Yahoo! Messenger by Dial Up

    Yahoo! Messenger is the instant messaging program developed by Yahoo!, which is now introducing the tenth version in a beta stage. With Yahoo! Messenger, you can chat with the keyboard or with the...

  • How to Change Your Voice Online

    There are many several reasons you may desire to change your voice online, such as playing online games, chatting, and instant messaging. In order to do this, you will need to install VAD (virtual...

  • Setting Up a Chat Room

    Chat rooms are excellent communication tools for keeping in touch with friends and family. A chat room, unlike a standard instant messaging conversation, allows dozens of users the ability to...

  • How to Change AIM Password

    AOL has made changing your AOL Instant Messenger password easy. It's as simple as following a few steps to making sure your password is safe and secure.

  • How to Change Your MSN Name

    MSN Messenger users select a display name and picture to identify themselves within the Messenger community. This feature allows users to express their personality while chatting. Users are able...

  • How to Install Yahoo Messenger on Phones

    Yahoo Messenger users are able to communicate with other members of the Yahoo community via instant messaging. There may be times when you need to read or send instant messages while you are away...

  • How to Make Smileys in Chat Rooms

    There is a lot that can be told through emotions, even though sometimes you may not be able to express your emotions to someone face to face. For situations like instant messaging and chat rooms,...

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