A little over a year ago Yahoo started rolling out the beta version of its new Mail service. Now the beta tag is gone and Yahoo has moved everyone to the new layout. If you preferred the old version, Techdows found a trick to get it back using, of all things, your display settings. More »
Yahoo’s out with a new version of their mail client, one that the purple-clad firm claims is faster for users everywhere, better at search and spam filtering, and easily connected to send and receive updates from social networks. More »
More than 10,000 Hotmail passwords were posted online yesterday, but users of other popular webmail services haven’t been let off the hook. A similar phishing attack exposed another 20,000 user/password combinations, so consider resetting your own login credentials. More »
Yahoo Mail users are getting 25MB attachment limits and easier photo uploading, a new Messenger beta allows for full-screen video chat and social network link-ins, and searchers will get refinement and analytic results as part of Yahoo’s big Monday announcements. More »
Windows/Mac/Linux: If you’re a fan of inline photos and links connecting the content of your emails to the rest of the web, new browser plug-in Zemanta adds a rich email composition tool to Firefox and Internet Explorer. As the video demonstrates, Zemanta reads your email (okay, a little weird) and suggests images, related links, and inline links to Wikipedia. If you sign up for an account with Zemanta, you can finely tune Zemanta to search for images in your Flickr account or search for and add your friends’ content when available. Originally Zemanta was just a blogging tool (it supports Blogger, WordPress, and most other popular blogging services). Now the unobtrusive extension works with both Gmail and Yahoo mail. Using Zemanta is both fun and a little annoying. It’s really cool to quickly and easily add images and links to your email, but it’s also a little irritating to see the Zemanta branding show up next to everything you add. (Maybe it’s just me? I don’t like looking like a shill.) Still, if you’re a rich email junkie, Zemanta is a great tool. Zemanta is a free download, works on all platforms with Firefox and with Internet Explorer.
Zemanta for Gmail and Yahoo Mail [Zemanta via CNET]Discovered a fun little feature in Yahoo Mail this week that made me wish for the same in Gmail: the Subject-O-Matique, a random subject line inserter. When you just can’t think of the right subject for your message, click the subject button in the new version of Yahoo Mail to automatically fill in something cheeky or goofy. Hit the play button above to see some examples. The closest Gmail’s got to this is its random signature experimental feature. [via Webware]
Great news for Yahoo Mail users: The big Y has stopped automatically including advertising taglines at the bottom of your email messages. About time! [via]
Two features Yahoo Mail has that Gmail does not (officially, anyway)—unlimited storage and “AddressGuard” disposable addresses—make it the ideal solution for keeping an online repository of important documents. Blogger Bert Webb does just that. He scans paperwork like birth certificates, warranties, copies of insurance cards and tax documents emails them to a disposable Yahoo Mail address set up to automatically filters them into a “Docs” folder in his email account. Of course, using Gmail’s “plus sign” trick and its virtually unlimited storage, you could do the same there, too. Turn your Yahoo Mail Into a Document Storage Lockbox! [Open Loops]
