YahELite Tutorials
Welcome! This site primarily focuses on providing tutorials for
YahELite
the most popular third party chat client for Yahoo.
Beginning with version 328, YahELite offers users the ability to choose between two levels of visual complexity, the basic level and the expert level.
YahELite contains all the features no matter which level you choose, the only difference will be what you are seeing on the screen.
Compare the differences on the >>Basic v.s. Expert<< page or learn how to change levels on the >>CHANGING LEVELS << page.
- Newcomers to the internet should note that the hyperlinks - words that link to other pages - are a different color from the regular text and are underlined. They will change color as you move your mouse over them. To open the page, just click the word.
- The menu on the left will expand (when you click a button) to show direct links to the pages. The top button on the menu toggles all the menu items open and closed when clicked on the right side. Click the left side and a search box will open that you can use to search for words contained in the menu.
- The dragon graphic in the top left corner will bring you 'home' (back to this page) when clicked.
- A page to help the newcomers to chat has been added to the Miscellaneous Section of the tutorial. It contains a list of some of the common abbreviations and terms used in chat. Most of the abbreviations are the same as used in texting, so cellphone users will quickly feel at home.
As you read the tutorials you might notice that your version of YahELite differs slightly in appearence or content to the graphics on the pages. is constantly being updated with cosmetic changes as well as new features, but I trust the tutorials presented here will help you get comfortable using and exploring the many options of .
While there have been many positive changes in Yahoo lately, there are often many Yahoo glitches, a page has been created to point out some of the changes and suggest workarounds. The WorkArounds Page is a perpetual work in progress, updated only when serious glitches/changes are occuring.
Yahoo has implemented the captcha feature in chat. Yahoo requires captcha verifications when you log into chat and each time you change rooms. To streamline the process of entering rooms, YahELite has incorporated the captcha graphic in a human-user friendly manner. Screenshots and a walk though of how it works is available on the CAPTCHA tutorial page.
Useful Features:
- Yahoo discontinued the goto command to allow you to go to any user, but YahELite allows you to use your status message to advertise the room you are in, making it easy for your friends to join you. Only people who have you on their friend's list will be able to see it. If a friend is displaying the room they are in, you can click their status notification to join their room. Learn all about it on the GoTo tutorial page.
- Moving from room to room is easy and can be accomplished in many ways. For those who prefer to type instead of clicking the room button, you can use the /join room command. Learn how on the Join Room tutorial page
Just for Fun
- To see your fortune type /fortune
- To post a 'Florkism' type /flork
- To scramble your text type /mumble followed by the text you want to post into the room
- To send a post into the room in morse code simply type /morse followed by the text you want posted
- To decipher morse code someone else has posted, highlite the text, right click it and choose Decode Morse from the list
- Useful as well as fun: To translate a chatter's text, highlight it, right click and choose Translate from the list
- Eggs are always a fun diversion. Try typing /egg on a quiet night in chat. (Hint: /noegg will turn them off. Type the /commands in the same place you type text into the room
Note to Vista Users: Check the forum for advice on using voice with VISTA.
For The Curious:
- For those wondering what folding@home project is: Folding at home is a Stanford University distributed computing project that is doing research on how proteins behave. By downloading and running the software, you will be aiding research on cancer, brain disorders such as Alzheimers and Huntingtons and a myriad of other things. Best of all one does not have to understand all the science behind the research to feel good about helping in the search for a cure to many devistating diseases. Everyone is invited to join the YahELite folding at home team or the software can be downloaded and points tabulated without a team affiliation. It can even be run anonymously! More information and links to the project are located at www.yahelite.org/fah.
- Toying with the idea of having multiple Operating Systems on your computer? If you install VirtualPC you can easily install a newer - or older operating system than the one currently on your computer and you can switch between them with ease! Directions for how to set it up and links to the needed files are available at www.yahelite.org/vpc It is an easy way for VISTA users to keep all their pretty bells and whistles and yet be able to switch to an operating system that will allow them to do what they want to do with ease!
Happy Chatting!
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