Yahoo! Essentials Are Really Essential

Yahoo! Mail:

OK so who doesnt know yahoo mail u're asking. But did you try their new feature? The one that makes Yahoo! Mail your default "mail program"? Ok so we all hate it when we see those "contact us" links on the web and click it to send mail and Outlook Express tries to send the mail when you havent configured it properly? Or when you dont know how to make the darn thing work? Well this solves that problem. When you install this new feature... clicking on such a link [example anon @ anon.non[1]] will open a new webpage and go to Yahoo! Mail's compose window with the address and Subject for the mail [if set] already in place. Now just type up your mail and puch send..... u're dun. Of course if you're not logged in to Yahoo! i'll prompt you to loging and continue from there without any hassles. I've been using the stand-alone version of thise before the Essential Package was realeased. If you want this as without the whole package go here[2]

Yahoo! Messenger:

So you think it's just one one the messaging software out there? Nope.. this is best out there. It allows you to use all of your yahoo aliases in one go. You can be talking to PersonA as myalias1234 whiles talking to PersonB as myalias2004. And when u're bored talking to PersonB, you can let myalias2004 "appear offline" to him. So he cant see you. But then you can use that alias to talk to other people.... This is not the same as the ignore/block feature in MSN Messenger cs even when you appear offline to someone you can still speak to them. When they do initiate a conversation though, it appears in your "Offline Messages"... pretty cool. The new webcam and shared files feature is fun too.... you can now put all those nude pics in your shared folders and share 'em.

Another new feature that I just saw tonite... is the the internet explorer bar feature, which makes use of the Explorer Bar Custmization feature in IE6. You can have that sidebar open and hide the "normal" Y! Messenger window and read yahoo news, search.... whatever you wann do... whiles still surfing normally. This only comes in the esseential package though.

Yahoo! Shortcuts:

This as the name suggests places shortcuts to the most used yahoo features on your desktopn and the start menu. For example it you install Y! Mail as default mail program with the package, it places a shortcut to Y! Mail in the Quick Launch Toolbar. [Now you can delete that annoying shortcut to Outlokk Express youalways accidentally click and have to wait till it loads before you can close it. Good riddance]. Another one is the Y! Update tool which checks for newer versions of installed Yahoo! files and install them as you choose.

Yahoo! Companion:

By far the one i hate most out of the whole Y! Essential package. For a start, you cant just turn it off like the normal additional toolbars in internet explorer [eg. DAP Toolbar[3]]. Only uninstalls. And it tries to acces the Yahoo Site even when u're working offline.... that slows donw the page loading sometimes... cos it'd have to try it.... fail before it continues loading the rest of the page.

Apart from that, the toolbar it almost redundant now that there's built-in search from Yahoo! with the essential package. Now when you type something in the address par, it searces in Yahoo! instead of MSN. Cool if you use yahoo for searching a lot. Not so cool if u go for the more *control* in searching provided by Google and it's Google Toolbar[4]. What I do is leave this out of the Y! Essential Installation package.... it's more fun without it.

PS: Please Marian.. go easy on me

Author: Emerald
Date/Time: March 28, 2002 3:30 AM

No,this is not Marian, lol. This yahoo info was very enlightening, however technical it may seem to some. Thanks, but would rather share the promotion $ yahoo is paying you for advertising,lol. Hope you're smiling :). Love your site, no " ".

I have a hard time getting my yahoo email page

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