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February 15th, 2008
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Loading ...Quite often in this blog, I like to offer some tips and suggestions about how to get the most out of mail. So for today’s tip, I’m offering an alternative to checking your mail from an internet browser, plus a whole host of other fun and useful applications.
I wanted to introduce you to the Yahoo! Widget Engine (I’ve been using it since it was called Konfabulator). For those of you who don’t know what a widget is, it’s a small little program on your computer to complete a specified task. There’s an introductory video that explains it better than I can. Of course, I’m sure that you Mac (and now Windows Visa) users know what widgets are already.
After you download and install the widget engine, within the suite of incredibly useful widgets that comes with the application is the Yahoo! Mail Checker. With that widget you can have a notification of when you receive your Yahoo! Mail and you don’t even have to open a browser to find it.
Unfortunately, the Yahoo! Mail Checker is on the second page of the dock. So one really useful suggestion I have is to right click on the widgets that you don’t think you’ll need and delete them from the dock. Keep doing that until the Yahoo! Mail Checker is on the first page of the widget dock (for example, I don’t need the CPU monitor). If anyone on the widget team is reading this, maybe you can let us reorder the default order of the widgets that get installed.
Now that you have the Widget engine installed, I hope you have fun playing around and finding out all the useful widgets that are out there. My all-time personal favorite is widescapeWeather for its simplicity and functionality (exactly what a widget is supposed to be).
Happy emailing!!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
Entry Filed under: classic mail tips, quick tips, yahoo mail tips
9 Comments Add your own
1. leisa | February 29th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
i would like yahoo to send mail quickly
2. Dave Thornton | March 2nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Why no widget for Linux?
3. chancy | March 5th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
why is yahoo slow to upload attached documents? is not there any other effecient way that can help to upload files?
4. Openjuru George | March 7th, 2008 at 6:16 am
I love the new look yahoo has these days its just gets better by the day keep it up
5. toni anne mitchell | March 18th, 2008 at 11:07 am
i would also like yahoo to deliver messages quicker its a bit slow appart from that its ok so far but i have only been on since yesterday.
6. OneWorld | March 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Yahoo Rocks! Best email ever! Now I can download all attachments at once rather than downloading one by one!
7. Pennie | March 22nd, 2008 at 10:25 am
I am so pleased with Yahoo, that I have transferred all my hotmail accounts to you. Keep it up. I just love messenger too, keeps me in touch with friends and family back home.
8. Joyce Baumgart | May 31st, 2008 at 12:25 am
I just resently bought my emachine. you know what they say,You can”t reach an old dog new tricks? well,I just love checking my e-mail at yahoo classic. I have tried yahoo mail, but I perfer claissic mail Thank You so much for giveing me whole new life. I’m at home all the time,disable I have learned so much. Keep up the good work.
9. ldd | June 3rd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Been a long time use of Yahoo, love it.
My trick to see if I have email since I last checked, is to click on my ‘inbox’ (this is with a tabbed browser, who’s name I won’t use…;~) ) and leave it like that.
The display shows, “0″ or the number of emails received with just a glance, even when I’m on another site, or even using another application. The visual stays in the menu bar.
For example now: (0 unread) Yahoo! Mail, then my addie…
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