Yahoo Hack

Hacks 567: Introduction Over 55 million people around the world have signed up and sent email with Yahoo! Mail. Even if you don't use Yahoo! Mail yourself, the chances are very good that you've received email from a friend, family member, or coworke...

Yahoo! Mail has been a runaway success because it's easy to use. Web-based email gives users an account they can access from any machine with an Internet connection. You don't have to know how to configure an email client such as Outlook to use Yahoo...

Imagine you've just returned from vacation to find hundreds of messages waiting for you in your Inbox. Wouldn't it be nice to have an administrative assistant to sort that mail into categories and separate the good stuff from the junk? By setting up ...

In the world of office software, a macro is a little bit of code that combines several steps of a process into a single click. Macros take advantage of a computer's ability to automate tasks and can significantly reduce any repetitive task that needs...

Most of us collect different email addresses like keys on a key ring: we keep adding them for different locations, such as home, work, or post office boxes, and eventually we've got so many keys we can't remember which key unlocks which door. In some...

Most of us have several email accounts on several systems: one for personal email, two or three for work, and maybe even a Yahoo! Mail account on the side. Most of these accounts are read with Post Office Protocol (POP) email clients such as Outlook ...

When you lead a busy life, time management isn't just an important skill; it's necessary for survival. Without the ability to track important dates and times, you could miss out on key events. While you can accomplish some time management with a penc...

Frequent travelers know the frustration of having data trapped inside desktop applications. Imagine you find yourself in a foreign hotel roomneeding to contact your hostonly to realize that the email address you need is in your Outlook address book a...

The Yahoo! Address Book lets you store more than just names and email addresses. You can store complete contact information for everyone, including street address, city, state, and country. If you have more than a dozen or so contacts stored, you mig...

The Web is redefining how groups of people can work together to achieve a common goal. At one time, forming collaborative relationships meant meeting in the same physical location. By collaborating online, people across the globe can come together to...

With the popularity of Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) comes a problem. Sometimes, you want to save the archives of a Yahoo! Group, access the archives outside the Yahoo! Groups site, or move your list somewhere else and take your existing ar...

You've probably heard the famous theory that says everyone on earth can be connected to anyone else through six degrees of separation. For example, if you really wanted to get in touch with Bill Gates through friends, you could go to someone you know...

A prominent feature of most weblogs is a list of links to other weblogs running down the side of the page. This list is called a blogroll, and they're so popular that a service called Blogrolling (http://www.blogrolling.com) is there to help people m...

Yahoo! 360 is a site designed to help you keep in touch with friends, family, and coworkers. In addition to sharing reviews, photos, and lists of your favorite music and movies, Yahoo! 360 lets you post messages in a blog. Of course, Yahoo! isn't the...

Having an instant messaging conversation on the computer is a bit like having a conversation with a blindfold on. You can "hear" what the other person is saying clearly by reading what he types, but other cues, such as facial expressions, are complet...

Yahoo! Messenger (http://messenger.yahoo.com) is more than just a way to have conversations with your friends. It's is also a way to keep up with your favorite Yahoo! content. Across the bottom of the Yahoo! Messenger window, you'll find a series of ...

If Yahoo! Instant Messenger is your favorite way to chat with friends, ideally everyone you know would also use Yahoo! Instant Messenger. But the world isn't a perfect place, and there are many competing instant messaging applications, including AOL ...

At its most basic, Flickr is a web application that helps you create a public journal of photos. You can upload your photos to Flickr and see them appear on a web page with the most recently added photo on top. But once you start playing with Flickr,...