Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”

Mac OS X Leopard “better and faster than Vista”
“I’ve been testing Leopard,” reports Walter Mossberg (Wall Street Journal) and, “I believe it builds on Apple’s quality advantage over Windows. In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use.” Among the more than 300 new features available in Leopard, Mossberg singles out as “marquee features” Time Machine, Cover Flow, and Quick Look.” And he was impressed that “every piece of software and hardware I tried on two Leopard-equipped Macs—a loaned laptop from Apple and my own upgraded iMac—worked fine, exhibiting none of the compatibility problems that continue to plague Vista.”

Leopard “hits all the right spots”
“With Leopard, Apple’s operating system widens its lead aesthetically and technologically,” states Ed Baig (usatoday.com). Baig “migrated to Leopard” from Tiger “without pain on a MacBook laptop and my own iMac desktop; there’s mercifully none of the software driver and other hassles associated with a Windows operating system upgrade.” Calling Leopard “one cool cat,” Baig praises Time Machine with its automatic backup and effortless file retrieval; the new videoconferencing features in iChat Theater; stationery, notes and To Do options in Mail; Cover Flow, Spaces, Stacks, and the ability to “highlight and copy any portion of a Web page inside the Safari browser and turn it into a live Dashboard widget.”

Leopard unleashed
Writing for the Telegraph, Claudine Beaumont tells us that “Leopard is slick, shiny” and offers any number of features that deliver the “wow factor.” Like CoverFlow, which in Leopard allows “you to whiz through files and documents, with the album covers replaced by mini-thumbnails showing the front page of documents. You can hover over these thumbnails to scroll through multi-page documents; if it’s a movie file, you can even play the film clip in Finder.” Stacks “another useful addition to Leopard, is a virtual ‘stack’ of documents that lives in the dock area, giving you one-click access to files.” “For me,” Beaumont states, “the stand-out feature is Time Machine,” but she’s also impressed that with Boot Camp built-in, Leopard becomes “the first Apple operating system that will also allow you to install a Windows operating system alongside it.”

Lots of “new goodies in Leopard”
Mac OS X “Leopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots — and most of them are bright ones,” declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two “routine-changing” features. Time Machine, which offers “the shortest setup of any backup system in history.” And Quick Look, which lets you “view the contents of a document’s icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.” Pogue says “it’s fantastic.”

“Great”
That’s the one-word assessment Rob Griffiths (macworld.com) offers for Time Machine. “Perfect for nearly everyone,” Griffiths points out that “Time Machine attempts to turn the complex and sometimes confusing world of backup and restore into a simple, visual operation. Backing up is simple: attach a drive of sufficient capacity.” And when the fateful day arrives and you need to rescue documents from oblivion, “ you launch the Time Machine application—Apple has added a Time Machine icon to Leopard’s Dock—and simply move backward through time to find the files or folders you wish to restore.”

Mac OS X Leopard “fast and sleek”
After putting Leopard through its paces, Dean Takahashi (San Jose Mercury News) finds it is aptly named—”It’s fast and sleek”—and concludes that the latest version of Mac OS X “gives Apple [an] advantage over Microsoft.” It offers “more than 300 new features, making it the biggest upgrade in a long time,” and “a lot of the features allow you to do things more quickly and more easily.” That includes iChat, which, he says, “got a good makeover. Besides doing video chats with the built-in Webcams on Macs, you can now use them to share any kind of file with the person you’re chatting with. You can also take over that friend’s desktop in case you’re diagnosing the machine from afar.”

“Using the computer more pleasurable” with Mac OS X Leopard
“The grace of Leopard’s interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update,” reports Elsa Wenzel (cnet.com). Awarding it an “Excellent 8 out of 10,” Wenzel maintains that Leopard not only “makes Macs more enticing than Tiger did,” but that it “makes it far easier to find documents and applications than Windows Vista. Leopard’s interface niceties made the daily mechanics of using the computer more pleasurable. Mundane chores, such as finding files and backing up data, become a visual treat.”

“Leopard leaps to new heights”
“What’s new in Leopard? A lot,” say Ken Mingis and Michael DeAgonia (computerworld.com). The pair walk you through a 12-page analysis of the newest version of the Mac OS, spending time on many of the new features introduced in Leopard, including Stacks, Quick Look, Spaces, Time Machine, and numerous others. From Leopard’s “unified interface” to major under-the-hood changes, to wholly new apps, Leopard is a substantial, albeit evolutionary, advance for Mac OS X that builds on a solid foundation and adds a modicum of eye candy to reinforce the notion that this is something new and improved. It’s also fast — especially impressive given the new graphics sprinkled throughout the OS.”

Leopard “a pleasure to use”
Calling Leopard the “apple of my eye,” Dwight Sliverman (Houston Chronicle) tells us that as he’s played with the newest version of Mac OS X, “I’m constantly being surprised by smart, useful and convenient touches. It is a pleasure to use.” For example, he calls Spaces his “favorite Leopard feature, because it instantly multiplies your desktop real estate. Those who use portable computers will particularly appreciate it. On my MacBook it’s a godsend.”

Leopard makes “using a Mac both more productive and more fun”
Troy Dreier (laptopmag.com) gives Leopard 4.5 stars (out of five). Praising Time Machine, he predicts that “Leopard will be remembered as the OS that debuted Time Machine, the backup tool that changes everything.” Equally positive about Cover Flow, Quick Look, Spaces, Mail, Boot Camp, and iChat, Dreier concludes that “Leopard is worth the price for Time Machine alone, but the sheer variety of improvements and innovation inside this OS give you much more than your money’s worth.”

Time Machine: “So simple, there’s no Step 3”
In his in-depth review of Time Machine, Ryan Faas (computerworld.com) does some déjà-vuing of his own, conjuring up an early iMac commercial to illustrate how simple it is for customers to use Time Machine to back up the data on their Macs. Calling it “one of the most compelling new features added to Mac OS X in years,” he praises Apple engineers for creating “a backup technology that requires little or no configuration, performs backups automatically and invisibly, and makes restoring files from those backups as simple and intuitive as humanly possible.”

Leopard “the most polished and easiest to use OS”
In his 4.5-star (out of 5) review of Leopard, Edward Mendelson (pcmag.com) maintains that Leopard is “by far the best operating system ever written for the vast majority of consumers, with dozens of new features that have real practical value.” Mendelson “found Leopard to be startlingly fast, brilliantly streamlined, and packed with conveniences and innovations. Leopard’s rich set of built-in software runs faster than I imagined possible.”

Leopard “something any Mac user will want”
After a “swift and easy” installation, Mark Kellner (Washington Times) found Mac OS X Leopard “something any Mac user will want to have.” “Offering better integration of e-mail with syndicated Internet news updates, a new backup feature likely to decrease the impact of hardware failures, and snazzy display features by the bushel, the $129 Apple Mac OS X Leopard upgrade is more than a reasonable purchase.”

Leopard offers “a better user experience” and “inherent reliability”
Laying “the foundation for the next generation of personal computing,” Leopard “redefines what personal computing looks like,” according to Michael Gartenberg (computerworld.com). And Gartenberg offers a litany of Leopard features by which he’s impressed. “Cover Flow, a feature first used in iTunes, lets you browse files visually and then see a file’s contents without opening it.” He argues that “Apple’s IM client, iChat, runs rings around what’s available for other systems.” He’s always used his “e-mail in-box as a to-do list,” Gartenberg admits, “and Apple’s Mail client makes that really work.”

“Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac”
“If you own a Mac, you’ll want Leopard,” writes Eric Benderoff (chicagotribune.com). Running Leopard on both an iBook and a MacBook Pro, Benderoff learned first hand “why Apple’s new operating system upgrade, called Leopard, continues to make Mac computers the easiest and most enjoyable to use.” Citing Cover Flow, Spotlight, Spaces, and Stacks to illustrate his point, he concludes, “I can tell you this: for $129, Leopard breathes new life into an aging Mac.”

“Mac OS X Leopard: A perfect 10”
So states Tom Yager (InfoWorld). “People buy Macs,” Yager reports, “because the platform as a whole is perfect, full stop. Leopard is a rung above perfection. It’s taken as rote that the Mac blows away PC users’ expectations. Leopard blows away Mac users’ expectations, and that’s saying a great deal.” Leopard, Yager says “is remarkable; it’s more and better software than anyone should sell for $129.”

Tata Nano

As the Tatas unveiled the Rs one-lakh car here, Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said it will help the common man shift from two-wheelers to four-wheelers.

"It is a proud moment for India. It demonstrates India's technological and entrepreneurial ability. The car will help people move from two-wheeler to four-wheeler and it will leap-frog the two-wheeler," he said at the Auto Expo today.

"It fulfills the need of the common Indian who aspires to move from a two-wheeler to a four-wheeler," he added.

Tata Motors Ltd on Thursday wheeled out the world's cheapest car, priced at 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars).

Here are key facts about the four-door, mini hatchback named the Nano, which is due to hit the Indian market later this year.

Looks: The snub-nosed car keeps in the tradition of the Fiat 500, Nissan Micra and the Smart.

Dimensions: 3.1 metres (10.23 feet) long, 1.5 metres wide and 1.6 metres high. Can seat four to five people.

Engine: A two cylinder 623 cc, 33 horsepower rear mounted, all aluminium, multi-point fuel injection petrol engine can power the car to top speeds of 105 kilometres per hour (65 miles per hour).

Fuel Efficiency: 20 kilometres per litre, or 50 miles per gallon is claimed.

Pollution: Exceeds Indian regulatory requirements and can meet strict Euro IV emission standards. In terms of overall pollutants, Tata says the car is better than two-wheelers manufactured in India currently.

Safety: Car exceeds current regulatory requirements with a strong passenger compartment, crumple zones, intrusion resistant doors, seat belts, strong seats and anchorage.

Initial Annual Production Target: 250,000 units to rise later to 350,000. PRICE: Basic model price 100,000 rupees (2,500 dollars) plus tax and transport costs, which will bring on the road price to at least 120,000 rupees. The price of two deluxe models that will include air-conditioning and other features to be announced later.

Nearest Domestic Car Rival: Maruti 800, part of Japanese-owned Suzuki Maruti stable whose base model sells for about 4,800 dollars -- nearly double the price of the Nano.

Nearest International Rival: China's Chery QQ which retails for 3,600 dollars.

Sales: Tata will focus on selling the car in India for the next two to three years, before eyeing Latin American and Southeast Asian markets.

Market: India's car market is a huge draw because car penetration is just seven per 1,000 people, compared to 550 per 1,000 in such countries as Germany or 476 in France, according to the Society of Indian Automobiles.

Company Details: Tata Motors is India's largest vehicle company with revenues of 7.2 billion dollars in 2006-2007. It is the leader in commercial vehicles, such as trucks and buses, and the second largest in passenger vehicles. There are over four million Tata vehicles on Indian roads.

People Say
The man who led the design of the world's cheapest car, the Tata Nano, is obviously not used to the spotlight. But today he is getting the kind of attention India usually lavishes on its Bollywood film stars.
Ratan Tata may have dreamt up India's first people's car, but it was Wagh and his team of 500 engineers who made it happen. As he leaves the conference, he is followed by a stampede of journalists so unruly that burly bodyguards are called in to rescue him.
The Tata Nano's launch on Thursday marked the day that India's skills in "frugal engineering" – once represented by clunky, garishly painted Tata trucks, antiquated Ambassador taxi cabs and Mahindra jeeps – finally came of age.
Mr Wagh and his team have designed a car at a fraction of the cost of anything the best minds in Japan, Detroit, Korea and China have achieved. The Rs100,000 (£1,300) price is about half that of both the Maruti 800, the cheapest car on Indian roads, and the Chery QQ, China's cheapest model.
Nobody really believed they could do it. And when Mr Tata confirmed on Thursday morning that "a promise is a promise" and the Tata Nano would indeed be on sale for "one lakh only, VAT and transport being extra", a gasp went up from the 1000-strong audience.
For the first time, a car has been placed in the same price bracket as a flat-screen TV, a London commuter's season ticket, or an upmarket mountain bike. Time will tell whether it will become an icon like previous "people's cars", the Volkswagen Beetle, the Citroë* 2CV and the Mini. But with its bulbous front bonnet, hooped roof arch and small tubeless wheels, it has enough character to be in with a chance.
Indeed, the Nano is arguably the most significant new car launch in a quarter of a century. Even Mr Tata – a self-confessed shy man – was up front about the significance of his brainchild. Arriving on stage to the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Zarathustra), he compared it to the Wright Brothers' first flight, the 1969 moon-landing and the world's first super-computer.
A better comparison, though, is the Model T Ford and the VW Beetle – cars that transformed the motor industry by bringing car ownership to a new class of people. Research from PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that by halving the cost of India's entry-level vehicle, Tata could create 1.8 million new car buyers, doubling the size of the market.

The excitement in India was clear on Friday morning. Every motorcycle rider stopped in Delhi already knew the Nano's name, and was interested in buying one.
Satish Kumar, a 42-year-old father of two, said: "Indian people are very, very happy with this one lakh car. For my next car, I will buy this Tata. All the Indian villages and cities will buy this Tata. They will see that one motorcycle costs 70,000 rupees and takes two people, and a car costs one lakh and can take four."
Abishek Singh, 33, who was driving a TVS motorcycle, said: "Today I have a plan to go to the Auto Expo and have a look. I'm proud of Tata – they've committed to something and they've been true to their promise. Because he [Ratan Tata] is from India, I'm proud of him."
All the signs, then, are that there will be little spare capacity at the West Bengal factory where Tata will be operating from October this year. It is designed to produce 200,000 cars a year, and can be upgraded to produce 350,000.
So how did Tata do it? Ratan Tata said the company had not scrimped on quality to bring the cost down: "Many said this dream couldn't be achieved – some scoffed at what we would produce. Let me assure you that the car we have designed will meet all the safety requirements of a modern car, and have a lower pollution level than even a two-wheeler."
He added: "We shrunk the package of the car – we used less steel, we used less material, we had a smaller engine."
The car has been stripped of all unnecessary parts – there is just one side mirror, one windscreen wiper, and no air conditioning, power steering, airbag or central locking.
In fact, Tata's claim that it hasn't made cuts around emissions and safety is a stretch. The door panel in the standard model lacks a bar to protect drivers from a sideways collision, as Mr Tata admitted. The car would fail international tests even if airbags were fitted.
And its carbon emissions – at around 120g/km – are double what you would expect from a two-wheeler. Moreover, the car released this year will meet only India's emissions norms – which, according to Vivek Chattodadhya at Delhi's Centre for Science and Technology, are 10 years behind Europe's.
The view from the streets of south Delhi, however, is that none of this matters. "This is a very nice and comfortable vehicle," says Mr Kumar when the safety failings are raised. As for the lack of air conditioning, he pointed out that "India's cars are already 70 per cent not AC".
Ratan Tata is right to boast that the Nano is far safer than two-wheelers, which have double the fatality rate of cars. As for the potential increase in congestion and pollution, he asks: "Should the masses be denied the right to have an individual form of transport?"
The launch of the Model T Ford and VW Beetle did more than change the industry; they turned their creators into global automotive giants. Ford, Volkswagon and Renault, along with India's Bajaj, will all now follow with their own ultra-budget cars.
But the Nano puts Tata years ahead. It also proves that – for a certain type of low-cost engineering, at least – Indian manufacturers can outdo anyone else in the world.

Tata is filing for 34 new patents on the back of the Nano. The best example is its 623cc rear-mounted engine. Made of lightweight aluminium, it is the first two-cylinder engine with a single balance shaft to be used in a car. It relies on a fuel injection system designed by Germany's Bosch to eliminate the "pfut-pfut" of normal two-cylinder engines. Its small size and positioning free up space in the car, keeping weight to a minimum and making it possible to reach a speed of 65mph despite the engine's tiny 33bhp.
Dr Arun Jaura, head of product development at Tata's rival Mahindra, argues that India's engineers think innovatively because they cut their teeth when the country was an impoverished and closed economy in the 1980s and early 1990s. "Indian engineers didn't have billions of dollars at their disposal," he says. "If you have so many resources, you tend to be laid back and not think differently. Indians do think very differently; it's our backbone and our DNA."
And many Indian automotive engineers, Dr Jaura included, had successful careers in Detroit before they were lured home.
Indian car manufacturers may have roared into the consciousness of consumers in the US and UK with the launch of the Nano. But we are set to hear more from them before the end of this year – and not just because of Tata's likely acquisition of the Land Rover and Jaguar brands.
Mahindra plans to launch its Mahindra Scorpio SUV in the UK in June at a bargain price of £13,000, and will enter the US next year. Tata has confirmed it is in talks with distributors about launching its new-look Indica in the UK at the end of this year, with the Nano perhaps following in about three years' time.
Just as Girish Wagh on Thursday emerged blinking after 30 months buried in Tata's development centres, so it may be time for India's car companies to come out on the world stage.

KDE 4 Released/Preview : The future GUI ?

The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era.

The KDE 4 Desktop has gained some major new capabilities. The Plasma desktop shell offers a new desktop interface, including panel, menu and widgets on the desktop as well as a dashboard function. KWin, the KDE Window manager, now supports advanced graphical effects to ease interaction with your windows.

Lots of KDE Applications have seen improvements as well. Visual updates through vector-based artwork, changes in the underlying libraries, user interface enhancements, new features, even new applications -- you name it, KDE 4.0 has it. Okular, the new document viewer and Dolphin, the new file manager are only two applications that leverage KDE 4.0's new technologies.



Plasma is the new desktop shell. Plasma provides a panel, a menu and other intuitive means to interact with the desktop and applications.
KWin, KDE's proven window manager, now supports advanced compositing features. Hardware accelerated painting takes care of a smoother and more intuitive interaction with windows.
Oxygen is the KDE 4.0 artwork. Oxygen provides a consistent, easy on the eye and beautiful artwork concept.

Panel : The Plasma Panel holds the menu, the systray and a list of tasks. The taskbar, located in the panel, can show live thumbnails of windows that are currently hidden, the Taskbar Thumbnails.




Dolphin : is KDE4's new file manager. You can browse, locate, open, copy and move files with it. Dolphin concentrates on ease of use and replaces Konqueror's filemanagement component, which was used in KDE 3 and earlier. While Konqueror can still be used as file manager, and in fact shares the fileview functionality with Dolphin, the KDE team has decided to introduce an application that is optimized for file management: Dolphin.


Desktop Switcher : The Panel holds an applet that provides similar functionality and is also available when Desktop Effects have been disabled. Right click on the "Pager"in the panel to configure the number and arrangement of your virtual desktops. Drag the pager applet from the applet browser to the panel or to the desktop.



Taskbar Thumbnail : The effect Taskbar Thumbnails enables live previews of windows when you move the mouse over their entry in the taskbar. This makes for easy monitoring of activity in hidden windows and application activity. Taskbar Thumbnails also provide visual hints to ease locating the application you want to switch to.

Okular and Gwenview: Gwenview is KDE's image viewer. While it was available in KDE3, the KDE4 version has a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through your collection of images. Gwenviev is also used to display images. It provides a nice full screen interface that can be used to display your images as a slideshow.

Okular is KDE4's document viewer. It supports a multitude of formats, ranging from PDF files to OpenDocument files. Okular is not limited to only reading file






Marble Desktop Globe Marble is an application which shows you a three-dimensional map globe which you can rotate and view. Use your mousewheel to zoom in and out. Grab the globe with your mouse to drag it around.


KStars Desktop Planetarium: KStars is an application which you can use to view the nightsky above. It can be used to control digital telescopes, even remotely over the internet. When you start it, you will be presented with a dialog asking you to select the your location.


Download :
An alpha version of KDE4-based Arklinux 2008.1 is expected shortly after this release, with an expected final release within 3 or 4 weeks.
Debian KDE 4.0 packages are available in the experimental branch. The KDE Development Platform will even make it into Lenny. Watch for announcements by the Debian KDE Team. Rumours are that a Live CD is planned as well.
Fedora will feature KDE 4.0 in Fedora 9, to be released in April, with Alpha releases being available from 24th of January. KDE 4.0 packages are in the pre-alpha Rawhide repository.
Gentoo Linux provides KDE 4.0 builds on Gentoo Linux Projects -- Gentoo KDE Project.
Kubuntu packages are included in the upcoming "Hardy Heron" (8.04) and also made available as updates for the stable "Gutsy Gibbon" (7.10). A Live CD is available for trying out KDE 4.0. More details can be found in the announcement on Kubuntu.org.
Mandriva will provide packages for 2008.0 and aims at producing a Live CD with the latest snapshot of 2008.1.
openSUSE packages are available for openSUSE 10.3 (one-click install), openSUSE Factory (one-click install) and openSUSE 10.2. A KDE Four Live CD with these packages is also available. KDE 4.0 will be part of the upcoming openSUSE 11.0 release.

Apple systems

Update: I've added a poll for your voting pleasure. Here's a quick pic of the Mac family in full attendance:


Update 2: The Mac family has now been updated to welcome the newest, sexiest member. Bye, bye - old white iMac. We'll (hardly) miss you!


Update 3: The line-up has now been refreshed. We welcome to the party Apple Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, the heart of all Macs, the iPhone, iPod touch and TV.

Update 4: Added a (constantly updated) list of the active Mac users in this thread (and, by extension, on the whole forum).

Update 5: Added a basic profile for each Mac user.

1. spironox

Name: Tanuj

Mac(s): An iBook G4.

Operating system: Tiger

2. drgrudge

Name: Ashwin

Mac(s): A core 2 duo MacBook Pro 15".

Operating system: Leopard.

3. goobimamaName: Milind

Mac(s): An iBook G4 and a core duo iMac 20".

Operating system: Leopard on both Macs.

4. jamesbond007Name: Azeem

Mac(s): A core 2 duo white MacBook.

Operating system: Tiger.

5. yashName: Yash

Mac(s): A core 2 duo MacBook Pro 15".

Operating system: Leopard.

6. aryayushName: Aayush

Mac(s): A core duo MacBook Pro 17".

Operating system: Leopard.

7. DARK LORDName: Preshit

Mac(s): A core 2 duo Mac Mini.

Operating system: Leopard.

8. superczarName:

Mac(s): A core duo Mac Mini.

Operating system: Tiger.

9. getpriyanthName: Priyanth

Mac(s): A core 2 duo MacBook.

Operating system: Tiger.

10. abhilashkmName: Abhilash

Mac(s): Operating system: Tiger.

Update 6: Added a cute little orange Apple logo.

Update 7: Had the title of the thread changed (by requesting drgrudge) and updated the description.

Add INSERT Option in CD Drive Context Menu

you'll get "Insert" option in your CD/DVD drive context menu. So there will be no need to push drive tray, just click on "Insert" option and it'll automatically insert the tray. So here is the step-by-step procedure:

1.) Download "cdeject.zip" file from here, extract it and copy the DLL file to "%windir%\System32" folder.

2.) Copy following code in notepad:

Code:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{02A07E80-EFA2-11D4-8306-A7EBD4C50C7C}] @="CDEject Context Menu Shell Extension" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{02A07E80-EFA2-11D4-8306-A7EBD4C50C7C}\InprocServer32] @="C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cdeject.dll" "ThreadingModel"="Apartment" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{02a07e80-efa2-11d4-8306-a7ebd4c50c7c}] @="{02a07e80-efa2-11d4-8306-a7ebd4c50c7c}"

3.) Save the file with name "Mukesh.reg" (including quotes).

4.) Now run the file, it'll ask for confirmation, accept it. 5.) Now you'll get the "Insert" option in the CD/DVD Drive context menu.

Install Yahoo! Messenger Vista Version on XP

Yahoo! released a special version of its messenger for Windows Vista, which has cool new features and interface. But its available only for Windows Vista. But here is a hack to install and use it in Windows XP:

1. Download the required file from any of following links: http://www.mediafire.com/?7yiijzgnmf9 Mirror: http://www.mediafire.com/?7emet9jdy12
2. Extract the downloaded RAR file and run "dotnetfx3setup.exe" file.
3. Now run "Yahoo.Messenger.YmApp.exe" and you can enjoy the Yahoo! Messenger Vista version in Windows XP.