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Yahoo! Hacks
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Yahoo! Hacks

by Paul Bausch
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Take Yahoo! on the Go

Yahoo! Mobile lets you take much of the power of Yahoo! with you.

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 speeds. Many phones already provide a link to Yahoo! Mobile in the phone’s browser, but if you don’t spot a link, you can point your phone to http://mobile.yahoo.com.

Yahoo! Lite

When you browse to Yahoo! Mobile on your phone, you’ll find a simplified home page with many familiar Yahoo! features, such as Search, News, Weather, Sports, and Movies. You’ll also see a link that allows you to log in with your Yahoo! ID and password. Once you log in, you’ll see personalized options like the ones shown in Figure 2-85.

If you have Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Finance portfolios, Yahoo! Movies theater preferences, and other customizations at the Yahoo! web site, you’ll find them on Yahoo! Mobile as well.

Some mobile device browsers (such as the Microsoft Internet Explorer for Windows Mobile PCs and Smartphone devices) do not store the Yahoo web cookies that allow a login session to persist when you revisit the Yahoo! Mobile page again. If this is the case for your PDA or phone, you might want to consider choosing a password that can be quickly entered using whatever data input options you have (e.g., phone keypad, thumb keyboard, handwriting recognition, etc.). Always ...

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