October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Streamline Browsing with the Yahoo! Toolbar
The Yahoo! Toolbar integrates Yahoo! with your web browser, letting you search, customize features, and access your mail from the browser at all times.
The Yahoo! Toolbar is a browser extension offered by Yahoo! that integrates many of Yahoo!’s features with your web browser. After installing the toolbar, you’ll find an extra row of buttons in your browser, as shown in Figure 1-32.
Figure 1-32. The Yahoo! Toolbar
The toolbar contains buttons that perform Yahoo!-specific functions and a search form for quick access to Yahoo! searching. The toolbar can provide one-click access to all of your pages at Yahoo!, including your mail, groups, calendars, address book, and stock quotes. The toolbar is completely customizable, and you can choose which buttons and Yahoo! features are available on the toolbar. Because Yahoo! makes most of its features available via the toolbar, you can tailor your toolbar to suit the way you use Yahoo!.
Installation
To install the Yahoo! Toolbar, point your browser to http://toolbar.yahoo.com and click the orange Download button. From there, you’ll find a page with instructions about downloading and installing the toolbar. At the time of this writing, the toolbar is available only for Internet Explorer, but there is a beta (i.e., testing) version available for Mozilla Firefox. Because the program is a browser extension ...
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I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.