Messages on Mac

sooo i downloaded mountain lion and the messages isnt with imessage... i open the application and it says yahoo at the bottom corner, i need to change it to imessage, SOMEONE HELP PLEASE.

Hi All,
To be clear to launch Messages you need to enter an Apple ID
Once this has registered you can go to Messages Menu > Preferences > Account and disable the iMessage bit if you want.
The Accounts list will also show you all those ID and Screen Names that the System Preference > Mail, Contacts and Calendars has identified as "iChat" Accounts.
That is to say that all those Logins you had in iChat should also appear here (in some cases you may have had an ID such as Yahoo that was not used in iChat but is valid now)
It then depends on how you start a Chat.
Click the new Message icon. (Box and pencil type icon top left)
Click the blue + icon that appears top right
Choosing Contacts for iMessaging people
Choosing Buddies to use any iChat style Buddy lists.
Once a Buddy or a contact is showing in the "TO" spot their name is a drop down revealing other "To" Options and your Form options (If you have multiple ways of contacting each other)
i.e. If I stick in a Contact (of my own Address Card) the extra "To" options offer me my AIM to AIM buddy list items as well.
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View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more real memory over time without ever releasing it. Here is an example of how it's done.
The process named "Safari Web Content" renders web pages for Safari and other applications. It uses a lot of memory and may leak if certain Safari extensions or third-party web plugins are installed. Consider it a prime suspect.
If you don't have an obvious memory leak, your options are to install more memory (if possible) or to run fewer programs simultaneously.
The next suggestion is only for users familiar with the shell. For a more precise, but potentially misleading, test, run the following command:
sudo leaks -nocontext -nostacks process | grep total
where process is the name of a process you suspect of leaking memory. Almost every process will leak some memory; the question is how much, and especially how much the leak increases with time. I can’t be more specific. See the leaks(1) man page and the Apple developer documentation for details.

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HI,
Yes it is Beta still.
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I've deleted the user name below for the screenshot.
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TryinMyBestest wrote:
My Mac Mail send stopped working during a large number of mail sends yesterday.Could that be an issue? If so, what to do?
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Hi,
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It was seen early in Mountain Lion and Messages 7.0 but seemed to be resolved with the OS X 10.8.2 update that updated Messages to 7.0.1
I am not aware that anyone reported being charged before but I also know of no other way to resolve it.
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If one appears to be present compare it to the label on the back of the machine.
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