Yahoo Hack

Hacks 2350: Introduction In addition to pointing people to documents and resources across the Web through Yahoo! Search and the Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! has become a destination itself. By gathering information from many sources under a single roof,...

Financial information that was once available only to brokers and Wall Street insiders is now available to anyone in the world with an Internet connection. Yahoo! Finance collects much of the information available about stocks, bonds, and mutual fund...

If you have money in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, you know how addictive it can be to check the current value of your investments. Some people enjoy the roller-coaster ride of watching their money ebb and flow throughout the day, while others take...

These days, you can find most of the data you need to analyze investments on the Web, and much of it for little or no cost. However, putting that data into a spreadsheet where you can use it is another matter. Some web sites include links to download...

S. dollar, and a little JavaScript can speed up the answer. While browsing the Web, you might find yourself in some unusual places. You're potentially just a click away from any site that exists, including online stores large and small, across the g...

Every computer has a simple calculator application, which you probably use to do addition and subtraction. Yahoo! can take the place of this calculator, and Yahoo! Calculators can give you answers to complex financial questions. For the simplest typ...

Yahoo! Bookmarks are an easy way to share a list of web sites across several computers. If you have a set of sites you like to visit from home, the office, a friend's house, or any other place you might find yourself in front of a computer, they'll a...

Yahoo! lets you store up to 1,000 bookmarks on their server, making them easily accessible from any computer. But transferring or creating 1,000 bookmarks by hand could take you a few months of concentrated effort and some vacation time from work. Ev...

Once you've invested the time and energy into building your Yahoo! Bookmarks collection, you'll be ready to take them for a spin. Of course, you can view them in My Yahoo!, where they're meant to be displayed, but it's also useful to bring them up in...

Part of the fun of using the Web is being able to share where you've been with others. The fact that any web site can be connected to any other web site via a link is one of its defining features. On weblogs, a list of links to other weblogs is calle...

The nature of news is that it reports about what's new in the world each day. But in the rush to bring the latest news to the public, news organizations often have a pack mentality. The news being covered by the top media outlets this week is differe...

Trying to stay on top of all of the news on a specific topic can feel like a losing battle. Say you spend your time working with maps, so you're interested in cartography. Imagine you're interested in every aspect of cartography and want to keep up w...

My Yahoo! is designed to be a one-stop spot for information that's important to you. Putting together a My Yahoo! space is a bit like editing your own newspaper. You can decide which news sources you'd like to see headlines from, where each source is...

My Yahoo! offers easy access to national and international news. With a few clicks, you can add the top headlines from national news services, such as Reuters, the Associated Press, or USA Today. But the real power of My Yahoo! is not only that it gi...

Adding an RSS feed to My Yahoo! isn't a complex process, but it does involve some copying, pasting, clicking, and generally breaking out of the flow of reading a site. With a bit of browser hacking, you can reduce the friction of adding sites to My Y...

When you watch any of the 24-hour news channels such as CNN or MSNBC, you see the ever-present crawling news ticker running along the bottom of the screen. While the news anchor reads a story about the latest celebrity court case or natural disaster,...

In the days before the Web, the local telephone directory was probably the most used book in the house. Getting in touch with friends, finding a place for dinner, and reaching local government agencies was accomplished by flipping through the pages o...

If you've ever been stuck in an inexplicable traffic jam, you know how important information can be. Just knowing the reason behind a slowdown can help you estimate how much longer you'll be stuck and make some sense of the sea of cars surrounding yo...

The Yahoo! Education site (http://education.yahoo.com) contains information about schools of every level across the United States. You can look up local elementary and high schools, read reviews by parents and students, or find degree programs at uni...

You can streamline your movie-viewing habits by using http://movies.yahoo.com or by typing movies! into any Yahoo! search form. Yahoo! Movies is designed to help you find what movies are out, which movies are hot, and where you can see them. Here's a...

Even though there are a number of ways to keep up with ever-changing movie schedules at Yahoo! Movies [Hack #41], if you already use an RSS newsreader, you can start watching your favorite theaters with just a bit of scripting. RSS is an XML syndica...

Imagine you find yourself in a video store, searching for the perfect movie among the thousands of choices and drawing a blank. Even though you might have a mental list of several movies you've been meaning to see, it always seems those crucial bits ...

Television is a big part of our lives; according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, people spend about half of their leisure time watching TV. If you've ever started a long channel-surfing binge, you know that you can feel you've wasted that leisure ...

You can find lots of information about upcoming television shows at Yahoo! TV [Hack #44]. By clicking on a program title in your personalized listings, you can find a brief synopsis of the show, members of the cast, and even directors and producers. ...

Type travel! into any Yahoo! Search form and you'll find yourself at Yahoo! Travel (http://travel.yahoo.com): a one-stop shop for planning vacations or business trips. You can find flights, hotels, and rental cars. You can read reviews from other Yah...

Shopping is more of an art than a science. Finding the right item at the right price involves a bit of intuition and luck. But there's no reason you can't bring a bit of science into your shopping habits to help you find, compare, and buy. Imagine yo...

Visualizing an entire music collection has never been easy. Whether the music is in stacks of vinyl records or in racks full of CDs, it's tough to get a picture of all of the artists, albums, and genres that are so unique to each of us. Moving music ...

Yahoo! Mobile gives you a subset of Yahoo! features for devices with small form factors such as your mobile phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). Yahoo! Mobile is optimized for relatively slow wireless data connections similar to analog modem sp...

Alerts are small text messages sent from Yahoo! that can let you know everything from how much snow fell at your favorite ski resort last night, to how a particular stock is faring in the middle of the day, to who was the winner at the end of a ballg...