October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Hacks 51–67: Introduction
Over 55 million people around the world have signed up and sent email with Yahoo! Mail. Even if you don’t use Yahoo! Mail yourself, the chances are very good that you’ve received email from a friend, family member, or coworker who uses Yahoo! Mail. By making email accessible through a web browser, Yahoo! has given millions the ability to send and receive email without configuring a client application or knowing what a mail server is. This chapter shows how to manage [Hack #52] and navigate [Hack #51] Yahoo! Mail more effectively and how to use Yahoo! Mail as a universal client [Hack #54] when you need access to other email accounts.
In addition to Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! provides a number of other tools to connect with friends, meet new people, and collaborate online. Yahoo! Groups [Hack #59] provides a way to discuss topics and plan with others, and Yahoo! 360 [Hack #61] keeps you in touch with friends and family while introducing you to friends of friends. Yahoo! Messenger lets you have real-time conversations with your friends, and adding avatars [Hack #64] adds a new dimension to your discussions. And the photo-sharing service Flickr [Hack #67] allows communities to form around sharing images.
Whether or not you’re one of the millions already using Yahoo! tools to connect with others on a daily basis, you’re probably already participating in some conversations using Yahoo!, and the hacks in this chapter will show you how to dig a bit deeper ...
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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.