jon

Member since: Apr 1st, 2006

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DigitalBucket online file storage still in beta, but keeps getting better (Download Squad)

Jan 8th 2008 1:28PM i chuckled when i read this and realized that i have unlimited storage from Yahoo mail and 6 gigs of Gmail storage , all for free. not to mention other free file storage i don't use so much (unlimited aim.com mail storage & Xdrive for example).

i guess the big advantage of this service is not having your files trapped in email messages, but still...

Are Yahoo! Email and Messenger users experiencing login problems? (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Jun 26th 2006 10:19PM yes... if i'm in Yahoo Music Engine and i launch Messenger from within Music Engine, then when Messenger logs in, Music Engine logs me out.

New release of Yahoo! beta mail rolling out (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Jun 3rd 2006 9:38AM haha this is funny. i'll never see yahoo mail beta. Yahoo told me 7 months ago that my beta was "coming soon." i got on the waiting list at least a month before that, too.

i've jumped ship. since last week i've been forwarding all my yahoo mail to Gmail... and it's working nicely.

Ode to webmail and other online applications for that matter. (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Jun 3rd 2006 9:26AM thanks for the link to all the web services... that's amazing.

i use both webmail and thunderbird. there aren't tons of features thunderbird has over webmail, but a few are compelling enough to prevent me from dumping thunderbird.

i won't touch outlook with a 10-foot pole.

thunderbird is an rss reader, allows easy quoting of email, assigns color-coded labels to messages, shows spelling errors instantaneously and allows me to check 3 email accounts at the same time (excluding yahoo since pop is no longer free).

furthermore, thunderbird has anti-phishing and anti-spam protection, and can be endlessly enhanced through the Mozilla extension system.

the only webmail which even comes close to thunderbird is Gmail... although i haven't yet seen the Yahoo mail beta, which i received invitations for nearly a year ago.

there is also something nice about web-surfing and composing email in separate applications. as nice as tabs are, i don't like composing email in one tab while reading a website in the next. especially if i hit a really taxing site which may crash the browser, thus destroying my email draft in the process.

Yahoo! 360� now available to Yahoo! Web Hosting and Geocities sites (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

May 12th 2006 4:58PM this is very cool. works for me in FireFox.

finally y360 becomes relevant to me! it really was lacking until this point.

Yahoo! Mail beta rollout (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Apr 19th 2006 2:15AM i received email from Yahoo saying my mail beta was "coming soon" ... and that message was from December 2005. i'm still waiting for access to the beta.

i had been on the Y! Mail Beta waiting list even before i received the message in December... so in actuality, i've been waiting for the beta since maybe November or October.

this is ridiculous.

in the meantime (~4-6 months), i've become totally addicted to Gmail, almost making this a moot point.

Do DomainKeys really work? (The Unofficial Yahoo Weblog)

Apr 1st 2006 12:23PM i don't understand DomainKeys very well, but i do remember hearing that Gmail was one of the earliest adopters of DomainKeys. thus, you're right, everything sent from Gmail will have DomainKeys verification.