October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Personalize My Yahoo!
My Yahoo! can be your window to the world, if you take some time to specify what you want to see and how you want to see it.
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 placed on the page, and how the page itself appears. Every good editor needs to know what’s available, and this hack should provide you with the tools to build your own personalized information hub.
Figure 2-27. Yahoo News! search results in NetNewsWire
To get started, browse to My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) and note the controls across the top of the page, as shown in Figure 2-28.
Figure 2-28. My Yahoo! controls
Each of these controls lets you personalize My Yahoo! in some way. Add Content lets you add information sources, Change Layout adjusts where each module is located, and Change Colors lets you specify a look and feel. With these three options, you can create a source of news and information tailored specifically for you.
Yahoo! Modules
A My Yahoo! module is simply a box on a My Yahoo! page. Each module typically contains information from a single source, and you can specify some preferences ...
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
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.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
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.