April 23, 2013
I pitted Google, Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing shopping search engines against one another to determine which of the three provided the best savings on five frequently purchased tech items - an Asus Nexus tablet, a TechNet subscription, a Microsoft Surface Pro, an iPhone 5 and a Galaxy Nexus S3. Here are the results.
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April 3, 2013
In an effort to help those who struggle sending large files via email, Yahoo announced on Tuesday that it would be teaming up with Dropbox to let users share and store files much more easily. This integration allows Yahoo Mail users to bypass the original 25MB file size limit, and easily send large files such as photos and videos.
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February 14, 2013
Stay up-to-the-second with scores from your favorite sports teams. With support for most sports – including the NHL, NBA, NFL and several different football (soccer) leagues – Yahoo's Sportacular app for Android is the easiest way to always know what's happening with the games you love. Be notified of every point in real time, or check the scores and standings whenever you want.
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January 12, 2013
Creative Commons images have lots of takers and find a place in everything from presentations to blogging. There are lots of ways to search for Creative Commons images labeled for reuse. Now, with the help of Yahoo Image Search, you can tap into Flickr and its huge databank of Creative Commons images.
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December 7, 2012
Today, free web hosting is a thing of the past. Major search engines like the aforementioned Yahoo! and Google weren't such monsters yet, either. You could search for popular keywords and some of the first results would actually be free websites running on GeoCities, made by people just like you and I. Here are some ways to venture back in time and see the remains of one of the coolest internet time capsules ever.
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July 13, 2012
Are you a Yahoo Voices user? If so, you need to jump online right away and change your password because it may have been compromised. Not only were the password stolen, but email addresses for every user of the service was posted, so it is not even necessary for someone to figure out the email associated with the password.
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May 25, 2012
Instead of rolling yet another web browser, Yahoo.com has released Axis, a search and browsing plug-in tool that integrates with leading web browsers. Yahoo! Axis also integrates with compatible iOS web browser apps for accessing and conducting Axis searches, bookmarks, and browsing sessions on your mobile device.
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February 7, 2012
Search engine Yahoo! may be down, but it’s not out. They’re still trying to find ways to remain relevant, and one way of doing that is a new app search feature. It is what it says. When you search for a keyword on Yahoo! you will now receive app results when appropriate. They are above [...]
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November 4, 2011
This week, Yahoo launched its own magazine style app, Livestand, exclusively for the iPad. Similar to well established and popular apps like Flipboard, Zite, and Pulse, Livestand offers full access to the type of featured content you're no doubt familiar with on the website. Though Livestand comes a little late in the game, it does contain a few unique features that might appeal to ardent iPad users.
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October 17, 2011
If you and your Facebook friends are active readers of Yahoo-posted news, Yahoo has recently developed a way for Facebook members to share links to news articles they read from within the Yahoo News site. Called Yahoo News Activity, the service was launched at the Facebook f8 conference held a few weeks ago in San Francisco.
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September 19, 2011
The long established, popular social bookmarking service, Delicious.com, is undergoing a major facelift after being acquired by the founders of YouTube. Although there's not many details about the exact changes to the site, existing Delicious members must agree to let Yahoo transfer their bookmarks to the new company AVOS, by September 23 2011.
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March 24, 2011
Yahoo launched a competitor to Google Instant this week called Search Direct, which aims to provide searchers with instant answers for their searches where possible. Search Direct has begun with 15 categories of instant answers, but hopes to expand to hundreds of categories in the near future. Yahoo intends to focus on delivering the answer directly to the user, rather than supplying a list of links which the user then has to click on.
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October 28, 2010
Whether or not you’ve heard the news, if you have a Yahoo account then you’ve probably noticed subtle differences in many of the screens where your contacts and your status updates are managed. In December 2009, Yahoo Mail was integrated with Facebook. These days, if you’re a Yahoo user, you’ll discover connections to Facebook all [...]
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October 26, 2010
Yahoo! recently released its latest update to the Yahoo! Messenger 2.0 [App Store link] application for the iPhone. This app lets you connect with your IM friends and make free voice and video calls to everyone on your Messenger account. You can also use it to make low cost calls to land line or mobile [...]
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September 21, 2010
As the editor of MakeUseOf Answers I see a lot of tech-related questions every day. Since every question is moderated, most of the embarrassing fun is edited out and the most ridiculous questions never see the light of day. From an entertaining point of view that is too bad, but on the other hand, we [...]
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