Yahoo Mail has added a new application called Attach Large Files by drop.io. By using this new app Yahoo mail users can attach files up to 100 megabytes. You can find the Attach Large Files app in the Applications section underneath your folders. (If you don’t see it listed, you can add it to your list by clicking the plus sign.) To get started just click on the “Attach Large Files” app.

Once Attach Large Files application is added you can attach and send large files via Yahoo Mail. You can send . It doesn’t have to be just one file, you can upload multiple attachments in a single go. Just keep selecting all the files that you want to attach and when you’re ready, click the ‘Upload and Compose Email’. The app will tell you how much more space you have available.

Once the files have finished uploading, the Attach Large Files app will open up a new message with the files already attached. The files will be available for downloading for 30 days after you send them, and your upload history is saved so you can resend again if you like. And you don’t have to worry whether or not your recipient’s Inbox can handle these attachments because the attachment is stored over at our app partner drop.io.

Yahoo has rolled out a new feature for its Mail service users to find and merge duplicate contacts in their address book.

To get started, when you first open Yahoo! Contacts, just click the link to “Fix duplicate entries”. (There is also a link in the “Tools” button at the top of your contacts window.)

This tool will scan your contacts list and present you with the duplicate entries that were found. To combine the duplicates into one, just click the button ‘Merge all EXACT’ and then “Yes” to confirm.

You can also review each duplicate contact separately, just click the “Next” button instead. A wizard will guide you through the process of merging each duplicate entry.

On 13 January 2010, The Nielsen Company reported top search providers data for December 2009.  According to this report Google still dominating search market followed by Yahoo and Bing/MSN. This search includes search data for total searches, unique searchers, search share, and all other search figures.Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider. Example:  An estimated 6.7 billion search queries were conducted at Google Search, representing 67.3 percent of all search queries conducted during the given time period.

Internet Explorer 8 is the version of browser from Microsoft. Microsoft and other vendors now offering an optimized versions of Internet Explorer 8 for specific websites. Recently Microsoft has released an optimized version of IE8 for Xbox 360 users. The optimized version of IE8 for Xbox 360 will include :

• Xbox Live Search
• Xbox Accelerator to stay up to date on Xbox.com news and features
• Latest Xbox News via the Web Slice

Xbox user can download this optimized browser via Add-ons Gallery. The browser still IE8 and would run on 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows operating system.

There additional customized version of Internet Explorer 8 are available for MSN, Yahoo, eBay and Tesco.

	Internet Explorer 8 optimized for eBay has new features that let you search for products on eBay and monitor auctions through Web Slices.
	Home Shopping for less from Tesco.com. Find our full range of groceries for delivery online, as well as thousands of affordable non-food products from Tesco.
	Stay up to date with Xbox 360 and Xbox LIVE games, content, downloads, news and features.
	The Yahoo! optimized version of Internet Explorer 8 is only available for the following operating systems: Windows XP 32-bit Service Pack 2 (SP2) or higher Windows Vista Windows Vista 64-bit Windows Server 2008 Windows Server 2008 64-bit
	MSN Homepage has the latest in entertainment, breaking news, videos, sports highlights and more. MSN Toolbar brings the best of MSN with you wherever you go on the web. Bing the new decision engine – helps you overcome search overload to make faster, better decisions.

Final version of Yahoo Messenger 10 is now available for download. Final version includes many bug fixes related to video call and overall stability of Messenger is also improved. Yahoo Messenger 10 is fully compatible with Windows 7.  This new release is also available for Mac and iPhone.

Yahoo Messenger 10 Feature

• High-quality video calls
• New “Y! Updates” view of your contact list
• Find more to chat about
• Change your language easily

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A partnership between Social-storage service Dropio  and Yahoo, Dropio’s application will allow Yahoo Mail users to send attachments up to 100 MB in size. Yahoo Mail users can access the Attach Large Files app from the Applications Box in the lower left-hand corner of their Yahoo! Mail inbox and using the app is simple:

1. Click “Attach Large Files” — this brings you to the drop.io welcome page
2. Next click “Select Files” — add as many files from your computer as you want up to 100MB. You’ll recognize drop.io’s distinct upload interface that displays the queued files, their file size and allows you to cancel any of them either before or during upload.
3. Next click “Upload and Compose Email” – users are brought to a new email, populated with thumbnails and links to view and download the attachments.

When your recipient opens the email, they have the option to click to view and download individual files, or the whole group.

The application allows people to save previously sent groups of attached files that can later be viewed or resent. It also integrates several useful drop.io functions like voicemail and conference calling.

The Attach Large Files app was built entirely on drop.io’s robust and open API. We are excited to see our API continue to be used as a springboard for other platforms to leverage drop.io’s powerful, real-time file sharing, collaboration and conversion engine to help power content sharing in the context of communication platforms.

Yahoo is about to release a new tool for it’s search service helping users to organize their search results. Yahoo search pad in built in application with Yahoo Search and when ever you perform searches on Yahoo search it automatically assists you in saving websites you visit and taking notes as you search. Search Pad helps you collect, edit, organize, save, print, and email your notes for immediate or future use.

How to Use Yahoo Search Pas?

Search Pad can be found on the upper right-hand side of the Yahoo! Search results page, underneath the Yahoo! logo.

To use Search Pad:

1. Search as you normally do.
2. Search Pad will automatically record the sites you click on.
3. Search Pad will intelligently detect when you’re researching on a particular topic and ask you if you want to take notes with a prompt (see below).

By default Yahoo search pad is on, but you can also turn it off.

Turn Off Temporarily – Use the Turn Off option from the drop down menu in the Search Pad application.  This turns Search Pad off for your current session only. You can turn it back on by clicking on the Search Pad bar.
Permanently Disable – To set Search Pad as always off for all your search sessions:

1. Click the Options link within any search results page.
2. Click Preferences from the dropdown menu.
3. Look for the Search Pad section and click Edit.
4. Click Disabled and then Save.

Yahoo image search has added a filter for searching creative common images over the internet. Creative common images search filter will help users to reuse the existing images and making image use more transparent to creator of image. When you use Yahoo! Image Search, you’ll now see a checkbox for Creative Commons allowing you to filter for images from Flickr that can be used commercially or that can be modified (remixed, tweaked, or built upon) with restrictions set by the image’s creator.

Source : Yahoo Search blog

Image Source: Thomas Hawk’s

Yahoo launched updated version of Yahoo Messenger for iPhone. This version comes with Landscape keyboard mode. iPhone users can also report bugs back to Yahoo via a dialog box that is being added for reporting bugs to Yahoo.

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Yahoo unveiled some new features to their image search and most importantly yahoo image search user interface is better then Google image search user interface. hen you click on an image from the image search results page, the top bar opens to reveal a richer and sleeker interface that displays a larger view of the image, more search results, and popular related searches.

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