Add a Content Tab to Yahoo! Messenger
With a bit of Registry hacking, you can add a custom content tab to Yahoo! Instant Messenger.
Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) is more than just a way to have conversations with your friends. It’s is also a way to keep up with your favorite Yahoo! content. Across the bottom of the Yahoo! Messenger window, you’ll find a series of content tabs. Each tab gives you instant access to some information you’d normally find on the Yahoo! website, such as weather, stock quotes, news headlines, or your Yahoo! calendar. Figure 3-33 shows a series of content tabs in Yahoo! Messenger, with the Yahoo! Buzz tab selected.
Figure 3-33. The Yahoo! Buzz content tab in Yahoo! Messenger
The Yahoo! Buzz tab gives you a quick summary of what you’ll find at the Yahoo! Buzz site (http://buzz.yahoo.com), tracking trends in Yahoo! searching. You can customize which tabs appear in Yahoo! Messenger by choosing Messenger → Preferences from the top menu and selecting the Content Tabs category from the left pane. From there, you can choose from around a dozen different tabs to show or hide from your Yahoo! Messenger interface.
Tip
This hack describes the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for Windows. At the time of this writing, the Mac version of Yahoo! Messenger has four content tabs, and there’s no way to add custom tabs to the interface
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