Tag: YAHOO!

Yahoo! is rolling out some nice new features in their Yahoo! Mail Beta. Their first issue fixed was the service's loading speed. This new update seems to have sped up the time it takes to load new messages and send new messages, areas that once seemed too slow for me, that now seem to be quite substantially faster. The Yahoo! team has also added some new features, including a weather display, and ...

Today, Ryan Kennedy demonstrated why he's the right guy to be the Yahoo! Mail Beta evangelist. One of the best-kept secrets within the new Yahoo! Mail Beta have been the search shortcuts. We've learned a little about them from Josh here and in Ryan's post today at the Y! Mail Updates blog. But the frosting on the cake is the complete reference page provided here. Ryan promises this will be updated ...

TrackMeNot is a Firefox extension designed by two NYU computer science researchers to run in the background and periodically send search requests to popular search engines and portals like AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN. Why would you want to do that? A couple of reasons. First, just for the fun of screwing with their heads. More importantly, though, when the companies release their search records ...

Yesterday we brought you Flickr Leech, a website built with Flickr's API to allow you to see 500 thumbnails at once. Today we bring you FlickrStorm, another web application built on Flickr's API, but this time built in Flash. FlickrStorm is in some ways more polished than Flickr Leech, but presents far fewer thumbnails - for raw browsing horsepower, Flicker Leech still wins. But where ...