Yahoo Pal is an add-on program for the popular IM
software Yahoo! Messenger. It adds some features and
bypasses some limitation imposed by Yahoo! Messenger,
and that can make your IM more interesting.

Yahoo! Pal is an invisible program, it will
automatically attach to running Yahoo! Messenger and
new Yahoo! Messengers you run after Yahoo! Pal, and add
menu bar to the Yahoo! Messenger windows. You can also
quit it by clicking its menu.

It has the following features:
1. Allow multiple accounts on the same computer.
By default, only one account is allowed to logon on one
machine. If you have more than one Yahoo! IM account,
it is definitely a problem. With Yahoo! Pal, you can
log on all of your Yahoo! IM accounts if you want.

2. Automatically reply when you are away.
Although you can specify customized status in Yahoo!
Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger won’t do auto reply for
you when you are away. With Yahoo! Pal, you can specify
a customized message as auto reply message, Yahoo! Pal
will automatically send it for you when you enable the
auto reply function in Yahoo! Pal. You can specify
different auto reply messages for different accounts on
the same machine.

3. Hotkey to hide Yahoo! Messengers windows.
To protect your conversations, you can define a hotkey
for special function. Once this hotkey is pressed, all
existing Yahoo! Windows including the system bar icons
will be hidden automatically. If your friend sends IM
to you when you already hide Yahoo!, the new IM window
won’t pop up. Press the hotkey again, all Yahoo!
Windows and system bar icons will appear.

4. Send a random quote to your friend.
Yahoo! Pal is able to print a random, hopefully
interesting, adage or quote. If you used UNIX fortune
before, you will have more idea about this function.
Yahoo! Pal stores over 16000 quotes and adages. You can
send inoffensive or offensive ones to your friend
depending on your relationship with your friend.

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