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	\| Posted on September 12, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted on September 12, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\| This is an email sent from Barry Schuler, a chairman/CEO of AOLTW.[http://employeechannel.aol.com/news/executivemessages/update_sept13.html Check here] (~~No longer available~~) for a message from Mark Stavish (Executive VP, Human Resources)		\| This is an email sent from Barry Schuler, a chairman/CEO of AOLTW.[http://web.archive.org/web/20011208154027/http://employeechannel.aol.com/news/executivemessages/update_sept13.html Check here] (via Wayback Machine) for a message from Mark Stavish (Executive VP, Human Resources)
	* AIM's free Web-based instant messaging service reported more than 700 million instant messages on its network Tuesday, a new record. Total instant messages sent on AIM and the proprietary AOL service.		* AIM's free Web-based instant messaging service reported more than 700 million instant messages on its network Tuesday, a new record. Total instant messages sent on AIM and the proprietary AOL service.
	* AOL members have donated $6 million online to the American Red Cross, the September 11th Fund and the International Association of Firefighters since the crisis began.Thanks to DiamondKT		* AOL members have donated $6 million online to the American Red Cross, the September 11th Fund and the International Association of Firefighters since the crisis began.Thanks to DiamondKT

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	\| Posted on March 19, 2003 by DIAMONDKT (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted on March 19, 2003 by DIAMONDKT (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\|		\| America Online unveiled a peek of prototype version 9.0 during its analyst day in New York back on December 2, 2002. It is currently being tested in an area accessible only to AOL Internal Employees. AOL 9.0 should be seen at Keyword: beta in the near future. Public release of the software is scheduled for Fall 2003. Of course this is only an estimated time frame and often changes.
	America Online unveiled a peek of prototype version 9.0 during its analyst day in New York back on December 2, 2002. It is currently being tested in an area accessible only to AOL Internal Employees. AOL 9.0 should be seen at Keyword: beta in the near future. Public release of the software is scheduled for Fall 2003. Of course this is only an estimated time frame and often changes.I will post more information on AOL 9.0 development as it becomes available. Also look for AOL 9.0 screen shots and the AOL 9.0 client to download at a later date here on FDO-Files. For a complete list of all the features and changes to AOL 9.0, please see the following news articles.
			I will post more information on AOL 9.0 development as it becomes available. Also look for AOL 9.0 screen shots and the AOL 9.0 client to download at a later date here on FDO-Files. For a complete list of all the features and changes to AOL 9.0, please see the following news articles.
	* AOL Lifts Curtain On Version 9.0 - news.com.com/2100-1023-975906.html?tag=bplst		* AOL Lifts Curtain On Version 9.0 - news.com.com/2100-1023-975906.html?tag=bplst
	* AOL's 9.0 'Peek' Shows Ascendant IM - www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/1552841		* AOL's 9.0 'Peek' Shows Ascendant IM - www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/1552841
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	\| Posted mid-2002 by Cam0, Shasta (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted mid-2002 by Cam0, Shasta (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\|		\| It's been awhile since we've had any updates because the site has been down! During our downtime AOL8 went into beta and a few exploits popped up! Here's some info:
	It's been awhile since we've had any updates because the site has been down! During our downtime AOL8 went into beta and a few exploits popped up! Here's some info:An invoke was found that lead to a form called "Starbright - Account Administration, allowing any Starbright (HOST SBW) to be reset without prior knowledge of the password. This form only works while on an aol@school screen name. When signed on just invoke 41-49767 and have fun. The accounts don't have CL priveledges but can gag both on AOL and on AIM.
			An invoke was found that lead to a form called "Starbright - Account Administration, allowing any Starbright (HOST SBW) to be reset without prior knowledge of the password. This form only works while on an aol@school screen name. When signed on just invoke 41-49767 and have fun. The accounts don't have CL priveledges but can gag both on AOL and on AIM.

	[[File:AOL Files-41-49767.png]]		[[File:AOL Files-41-49767.png]]
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	Free Accounts - There will be an article posted later on about how to make free accounts using the New User feature.		Free Accounts - There will be an article posted later on about how to make free accounts using the New User feature.
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	\| Posted on September 12, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted on September 12, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\|		\| This is an email sent from Barry Schuler, a chairman/CEO of AOLTW.[http://employeechannel.aol.com/news/executivemessages/update_sept13.html Check here] (No longer available) for a message from Mark Stavish (Executive VP, Human Resources)
	This is an email sent from Barry Schuler, a chairman/CEO of AOLTW.[http://employeechannel.aol.com/news/executivemessages/update_sept13.html Check here] (No longer available) for a message from Mark Stavish (Executive VP, Human Resources)
	* AIM's free Web-based instant messaging service reported more than 700 million instant messages on its network Tuesday, a new record. Total instant messages sent on AIM and the proprietary AOL service.		* AIM's free Web-based instant messaging service reported more than 700 million instant messages on its network Tuesday, a new record. Total instant messages sent on AIM and the proprietary AOL service.
	* AOL members have donated $6 million online to the American Red Cross, the September 11th Fund and the International Association of Firefighters since the crisis began.Thanks to DiamondKT		* AOL members have donated $6 million online to the American Red Cross, the September 11th Fund and the International Association of Firefighters since the crisis began.Thanks to DiamondKT
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	\| Posted on July 30, 2001 by Ranma (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted on July 30, 2001 by Ranma (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\|		\| The AOL 7.0 Client has a release date in August 2001. Steppenwolf (AOL 6.0 for WinXP) has been making considerable progress. In spite of all these internal enhancements, the User Interface (UI) has largely remained the same since Casablanca (AOL 4.0).
	The AOL 7.0 Client has a release date in August 2001. Steppenwolf (AOL 6.0 for WinXP) has been making considerable progress. In spite of all these internal enhancements, the User Interface (UI) has largely remained the same since Casablanca (AOL 4.0).How did this canonical interface evolve? What conceptions did the public miss? This update helps to answer those questions with the release of several rare early AOL 4.0 clients.Each download contains the original client executable file and a main.idx that will be used to overwrite the old, allowing the downloaded client to be used online. Simply replace the main.idx with the installed one.There are three clients available for download:
			How did this canonical interface evolve? What conceptions did the public miss? This update helps to answer those questions with the release of several rare early AOL 4.0 clients.Each download contains the original client executable file and a main.idx that will be used to overwrite the old, allowing the downloaded client to be used online. Simply replace the main.idx with the installed one.There are three clients available for download:
	* AOL 4.0 120.07 Alpha (Cream Colored Interface) (Missing downloads/aolclients/client_s/aol4alpha.zip)		* AOL 4.0 120.07 Alpha (Cream Colored Interface) (Missing downloads/aolclients/client_s/aol4alpha.zip)
	* AOL 4.0 120.15 Beta (Blue Colored Interface) (Missing downloads/aolclients/client_s/aol4bbeta.zip)		* AOL 4.0 120.15 Beta (Blue Colored Interface) (Missing downloads/aolclients/client_s/aol4bbeta.zip)
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	\| Posted on June 26, 2001 by Tau (Original AOL-Files Staff)		\| Posted on June 26, 2001 by Tau (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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	\| Check out the latest revision (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_ver.gif) of America Online's 7.0 client.It appears that the AOLCoach (Missing images/4114_16h_coach_menu.gif), a feature new to AOL's software intended to instruct neophyte users the exact step by step method to doing various tasks (it even controls the your mouse pointer at times), has been undergoing development. Early yesterday when clicking the AOLCoach menu it directed the user to http://esupport.aol.com/beta/betasite/rel/index.html, a web version (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_coach_web) of this new feature. Later in the day it was changed from directing to the web to directing to a AOLCoach form (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_coach.gif).TAZ is coming along, but until some more features to differentiate it from America Online 6.0's software, TAZ will always be a clone with different art.		\| Check out the latest revision (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_ver.gif) of America Online's 7.0 client.It appears that the AOLCoach (Missing images/4114_16h_coach_menu.gif), a feature new to AOL's software intended to instruct neophyte users the exact step by step method to doing various tasks (it even controls the your mouse pointer at times), has been undergoing development.

			Early yesterday when clicking the AOLCoach menu it directed the user to http://esupport.aol.com/beta/betasite/rel/index.html, a web version (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_coach_web) of this new feature. Later in the day it was changed from directing to the web to directing to a AOLCoach form (Missing downloads/images/4114_16h_coach.gif).TAZ is coming along, but until some more features to differentiate it from America Online 6.0's software, TAZ will always be a clone with different art.
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	* [https://storage.levelleap.com/nina/aol/tools/vpd/vpd_us_60_32_190_141_patch.zip VPD 1.9 141 and 142 patch]		* [https://storage.levelleap.com/nina/aol/tools/vpd/vpd_us_60_32_190_141_patch.zip VPD 1.9 141 and 142 patch]
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	\| We're testing out one of those java IRC clients. [[Portals:AOL-Files/Chat\|Click here]] to test it (no longer available, now just goes to the chat page). A message might come up asking if you want to run jpilot or jIRC, please allow it to run, it won't work otherwise.		\| We're testing out one of those java IRC clients. [[Portals:AOL-Files/Chat\|Click here]] to test it (no longer available, now just goes to the chat page). A message might come up asking if you want to run jpilot or jIRC, please allow it to run, it won't work otherwise.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| VPD Fix
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			\| Posted on October 9, 2000 by BMB (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| This version of Artem's patch will prevent VPD version 1.80 131 and 131a from being disabled.
			* VPD 1.80 131 and 131a fix (Missing downloads/tools/vpd_us_50_32_180_131_patch.zip)
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Chat Exit Exploit
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			\| Posted on October 9, 2000 by Tau (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| This article explains how to sign offline and have your screen name remain in a chat room as well as the steps which led to its discovery.
			* [[Portals:AOL-Files/Articles/Chat_Exit_Trick\|Chat Exit Exploit]]
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Guestbook Fixed
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			\| Posted on October 9, 2000 by Tau (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| The guestbook has been fixed. Apparently some losers have nothing better to do than to put 50k of text which causes it to crash. Anyway, if you haven't done so already, sign it.
			* [[Portals:AOL-Files/Guestbook\|Guestbook]]
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Viowatch's Beta Form
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			\| Posted on October 8, 2000 by BMB (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| This has been around for a while but if you haven't gotten it yet you need to. It's a really well made form with a lot of useful functions and links.
			* [https://storage.levelleap.com/nina/aol/fdo91/thirdparty/examples/viowatch_betaform.7z Viowatch's Beta Form]
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			! style="text-align: left" \| New Design
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			\| Posted on October 5, 2000 by BMB (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| As you can tell, we have a new design. A lot of the site is still under construction. The tools section is going to take a couple more days but you'll see the wait will have been worth it once it's done.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Global IDs
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			\| Posted on October 5, 2000 by BMB (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| I updated my old article in the FDO section called "Arguments". It deals only with Global IDs so I renamed it as well as added some more correct information than what was there before.
			* [[Portals:AOL-Files/FDO91/Tutorials/GID\|Global IDs]]
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Keyword: OpsSec
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			\| Posted on October 4, 2000 by BMB (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| I saw a few articles in OpsSec that I found to be pretty interesting so I decided to put them up. I'll eventually put all of the articles on OpsSec here but for now you can enjoy the first four.
			* Allow/Block Names (Missing articles/opssec_allowblocknames.html)
			* Classes (Missing articles/opssec_classes.html)
			* Protecting Confidential Customer Information (Missing articles/opssec_protectcustomerinfo.htm)
			* Instructions for using SecurID login authentications (Missing articles/opssec_sidinstructions.htm)
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			! style="text-align: left" \| AOL-Files IRC Test
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			\| Posted on September 25, 2000 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| We're testing out one of those java IRC clients. [[Portals:AOL-Files/Chat\|Click here]] to test it (no longer available, now just goes to the chat page). A message might come up asking if you want to run jpilot or jIRC, please allow it to run, it won't work otherwise.
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 | Twenty [[Portals:AOL-Files/People|more profiles]] have been added to the AOL People section. Total number of AOL People so far: 360.Not on the AOL People section? [[Portals:AOL-Files/People/Form|Submit an interview]].
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	Free Accounts - There will be an article posted later on about how to make free accounts using the New User feature.		Free Accounts - There will be an article posted later on about how to make free accounts using the New User feature.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| SERA
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			\| Posted late-2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| New SERA programs and documents. Organization will someday occur, until then [[Portals:AOL-Files/Downloads/Tools/SERA\|click here]] for more.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| AIM Today Defaced
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			\| Posted late-2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| The Meet New People section of the AIM Today window was defaced earlier today. Click here (Missing index.php?page=deface) to read more.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| AOL with Netscape in Beta
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			\| Posted late-2001 by j1 (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| The AOL Beta Team is happy to [[Portals:AOL-Files/AOL/AOL_7.0_with_Netscape_Gecko\|announce]] the start of a new Beta test -- AOL 7.0 with Netscape Gecko.Download (66Mb) (Missing downloads/aolclients/aol7.zip).

			[[Media:AOL Files-Gecko.jpg\|Screen Shot]]
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Star Tools 7.0
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			\| Posted late-2001 by Unknown (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| Star Tools 7.0 is [https://storage.levelleap.com/nina/aol/tools/star/star_us_70_4114_161.7z now available] for download thanks to d4rk h4rk3r and Artem. The file was posted on the forums and removed for the safety of our members since submissions should be sent to the staff and it was posted off topic (usually meaning a PWS). I installed it and it worked fine, scan it to make sure before you run it though for your own safety.
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			! style="text-align: left" \| VPD 7.0! and Patch
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			\| Posted late-2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| Visual Publisher for 7.0 available now! [https://storage.levelleap.com/nina/aol/tools/vpd/vpd_70_e148.exe Click here] to get it! Patch will be available here (Missing downloads/vpd7fix.zip).
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Radio@AOL
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			\| Posted on September 21, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| Anyone remember AOL Radio? Well, they're at it again with Radio@AOL which is now in beta (aol://4344:128.aolradio.1355243). The music sucks. It plays decent, not choppy and I'm on 56k. Now they only need some metal!
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			! style="text-align: left" \| Free hourly AOL accounts
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			\| Posted on September 21, 2001 by Rob (Original AOL-Files Staff)
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			\| AOL has begun a new beta test for 'Free Web Help'. To participate you need to create a special beta account with a cert&pass provided by AOL. Although you need to provide a credit card when creating the account they will not be billed and will be deleted at the conclusion of the test. Check the TOD beta area for more info.
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 | We are glad to announce that FDO-Files.com has returned, so be expecting the forums to be up very soon. We will have the ircd, and many articles so wait patiently!
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