Yahoo! onePlace brings together all your interests, passions and important information into a single location, creating a rich, highly personalized experience around it for you. Everything is instantly organized, dynamically kept up to date, and served up to you the way you want.

Yahoo! onePlace key features:

• Centralized and open content management – Centralize and manage all the content they care about, from anywhere on the Internet, accessible from a single location and arranged to best meet their preferences. The product is also designed to allow consumers to link to any favorite content they’ve already personalized on the Yahoo! network (e.g., MyYahoo!(R), flickr(TM), del.icio.us(R)), or at other popular websites (e.g., Digg(R), Last.FM(R), reddit(TM), Yelp(R)).
• Personalized views – Enjoy their content based on their specific needs:
  • Bookmarks – Use “smart bookmarks” to instantly link to news feeds, web sites, videos, images, emails, search queries from anywhere across the Internet.
  • Collections – Group content in a way that makes sense. For example, create a collection related to an upcoming trip, or of favorite 80s bands.
  • Categories – Organize content according to commonly-used subjects (e.g., celebrities, local businesses, sports), making it easy to access and retrieve.
  • Pulse – Stream updates relevant to users’ content, such as flight status changes, new songs by a favorite music artist, or a restaurant review.
  • Favorites – Surface the content a consumer uses most frequently.
• Dynamic updates – See previews for selected sources that are kept fresh throughout the day – giving users a single location for a view of what’s going on across their world.
• Mobile RSS reader – Use a mobile RSS reader integrated into Yahoo! onePlace – providing a simple way to read and subscribe to their favorite feeds.
• Smart organization – Create a rich experience around a specific topic by grouping whatever content they find most useful.

Yahoo! onePlace is expected to launch, along with Yahoo! oneConnect(TM), in Q2 2008, joining Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile product portfolio, which includes Yahoo! Go 3.0, Yahoo!’s new mobile homepage and Yahoo! oneSearch(TM). For more information on Yahoo! onePlace, go to http://mobile.yahoo.com/oneplace .

Yahoo! onePlace – Manage Mobile Content is a post from: TechieQuest

To change your MyBlogLog widget, simply log into your MyBlogLog account and click on the “Get Widgets” button. It will bring you to a new page that contains the widgets that you could put on your blog.

You can customize the color of the widget, the style (either one-column or multicolumn), the size of the images, the flyout orientation (left, right or none), the number of rows and the width of the widget. MyBlogLog will soon be adding a feature to allow you upload your own skins for the widget.

MyBlogLog New Recent Readers Widget is a post from: TechieQuest

YSlow analyzes the page’s components, including downloaded components, using advanced techniques and tells you why they’re slow based on Yahoo’s 13 identified basic rules for high performance web sites.

To run YSlow, select Performance, Stats, or Components, or right-click YSlow in the status bar. When YSlow analyzes the page, the Firebug window displays the Performance view, and the status bar at the bottom of the window displays the overall grade for the page, and its size.

How YSlow works:

1. YSlow crawls the DOM to find all the components (images, scripts, stylesheets, etc.) in the page.
2. YSlow gets information about each component: size, whether it was gzipped, Expires header, etc. YSlow gets this information from Firebug’s Net panel if it’s available. If the component’s information is not available from Net panel (for example, the component was read from cache or it had a 304 response) YSlow makes an XMLHttpRequest to fetch the component and track its headers and other necessary information.
3. YSlow takes all this data about the page and generates a grade for each rule, which produces the overall grade.

YSlow gives you:

• Performance report card
• HTTP/HTML summary
• List of components in the page
• Tools including JSLint

With YSlow, you can:

• Build faster web pages
• Reduce your end-user response times
• Get the most potential for improvement by focusing on the front-end

YSlow also allows you to view results from the Performance, Stats, and Components views in printer friendly format.

You must install Firebug in order to use YSlow. Once Firebug is installed, download YSlow from http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow and follow the prompts to install it. Firebug must be enabled, and the Firebug window must be open to run YSlow and view the results. For more on how to use and customize YSlow, visit the Help page.

YSlow is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 1.1, with portions licensed by third parties under other license terms. To review the terms before installing, see License.

YSlow – Speed Up Your Web Pages is a post from: TechieQuest

At this moment, Yahoo web based messenger will include basic functionality and integration with MSN Messenger. This mean user able to add MSN / Live messenger contact list. As a result of the deal signed last year between Microsoft and Yahoo! to allow interoperability between their respective messaging networks. Yahoo’s web messenger will saves all your conversations and makes the history searchable from the same interface. Meanwhile, Yahoo claim that VOIP features will be added in the near future.

As for now, you can enjoyed watching the video preview that Yahoo! prepared to learn about this new online web messenger, and of course, sign in and try it out if you already have a Yahoo! ID.

I’m not really a fan of Yahoo! Messenger but this definitely a good news for Yahoo IM users.

Yahoo launches Web based Messenger is a post from: TechieQuest

So, all you need is download Callwave free sms widget tools. The supported widget / gadget tools are Apple OS X widget, Vista gadget , Google gadget and Yahoo! widget.

On Google, Users can download the gadget from CallWave’s site direct or from Google’s gadget index. The Callwave SMS utility will implemented into your Google personalized homepage.

On Macs, The CallWave Apple OS X widget has more features because as it can access numbers from your Mac phonebook and make your life easier with phone number referencing.

I haven’t tried the yahoo widget and vista gadget yet. But I’m pretty sure they’re all straightforward and easy to use. I noticed that Callwave doesn’t have any no hidden cost included or any catch on Callwave free sms services. Plus more, you can experiences CallWave SMS services is pretty quick messages which received within few seconds only. With this handy sms tool, you can start sending SMS messages to your friends worldwide from the convenience of your computer’s desktop. So, Make yourself comfortable and start send free sms text messaging to your friends or family.

So, Try out CallWave free SMS services and let me know how it works out for your. If you using the callwave yahoo widget and vista gadget already, I would love to hear how well it’s working for you.

Some of the screenshot for Callwave free SMS Services.

Updates:

Free unlimited Text Messaging only to US and Canada. Now the Text Messaging widget can figure out the carrier, all you have to do is type in your message, select a name or phone number and hit send.

CallWave SMS Widgets – Send Free SMS to Your Friends Worldwide is a post from: TechieQuest

The plugins supported and interoperability with Windows Messenger has given a major boost for Yahoo Messenger to catch up MSN . However. Yahoo still got a long way to catch MSN.

Some review of five most popular yahoo messenger plugins are:

1. Pando: Easy, fast and reliable way to share large files � even folders � with friends, up to 1 GB at a time.
2. YEmote: Access ALL the secret and hidden Emoticons quick and easy. Click animated smiley to be insert automatically into your text.
3. Yahoo! Greetings eCard: Browse from a selection of eCards to send to your friend while chatting.
4. iTunes: iTunes remote for Yahoo! Messenger. Note: you need to have iTunes installed in order to use this plug-in.
5. Eazibo: The best way to interactively and instantly make flowcharts or diagrams, share photos and make annotations with your friend online connecting. It�s called �Instant Graphics.�

Here is Entire list of the Yahoo messenger plugin on Yahoo Plugin Gallery.

Beside that, Techcrunch also make comparison chart about features and usage between msn and Yahoo IM.

My Note

The support of Yahoo messenger plugin is huge and taking advantage boost their IM market share.

Yahoo Messenger 8.0 Released With 180 Plugins Supported is a post from: TechieQuest

1. Close Yahoo Messenger.

2. [For Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.683 or lower]
Save this file (.bat text file) and execute it.

[For Yahoo Messenger 8.0.0.701]
Save this file and execute it. You won’t be able to enter the chat rooms, so if you use this feature, don’t run the patch or downgrade Messenger and run the file from the previous section. To prevent the automatic update, rename yupdater.exe from C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger to yupdater.exe.bak.

After install the patch files, you will see the patch files has modify the register like below:-

If you install new versions of Yahoo Messenger, you’ll have to repeat the steps below, as Yahoo setup rewrites the registry entries.

Open Run – >Regedit, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ Yahoo\pager\YUrl and create a new string key named Messenger Ad that has the value * (an asterisk).

For Yahoo Messenger 8 b628:

1. Find the file C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Messenger\Cache\urls.xml
2. Clear its content and save it (as an empty file).
3. Make the file (urls.xml) Read Only.
4. Download and run the patch from http://kalphegor.googlepages.com/ym8patch.zip

For Yahoo Messenger 8 Beta b508:

Download and run the patch from http://kalphegor.googlepages.com/ym8patch.zip

My Note

Playing windows registry and modify software patch is a dangerous way on windows but if you are a computer geeks, perhaps this trick is worth for trying. The new versions will getting harder to remove the ads and even impossible.

Thks for Gigetek for updating me about the remove yahoo smessenger ads on version 8

Take offs ads from Yahoo Messenger 8 is a post from: TechieQuest

Sample screen from Tech Buzz

Install : download this software patch and run “ym8multi.reg” file from this ZIP archive.

Uninstall : if you unhappy and want to uninstall the patch. Download this software uninstall patch and run ” ym8multi_unist.reg” file from this ZIP archive.

Via Tech-Buzz

Run multiple Yahoo Messenger 8 account is a post from: TechieQuest

Yahoo Photo is bringing a lot of ajax features like tagging and sets, and the ability to drag and drop photos. meanwhile, some of ajax features is not able to search on Flickr.

Product highlights include:

• Drag-and-drop functionality on organize and sharing photo
• Photo tagging—or labeling—for easy viewing and searching
• Downloadable high-resolution photos
• unlimited uploading and downloading photo
• Enhanced interaction with friends and family with ability to share comments and provide instantaneous access to photos
• Point-and-click tag and caption editing
• Smart Albums that detect newly tagged photos and automatically add tagged photos to albums
• Open APIs to encourage third-party use and collaboration

You can sign in with your Yahoo ID at photos.yahoo.com to try out the services.

News Source: TechCrunch

Updates: Yahoo photo services has been replaced by Flickr website.

Yahoo! Photo Beta Release Today is a post from: TechieQuest

To remove all Yahoo! Messenger Ads just start the program and click ‘Select All’ and then ‘Remove Selected Ads’. That’s it. You can now enjoy an Ads free Yahoo! Messenger

Download Y.addsRemover

Remove Yahoo messenger ads using Y.addsremover is a post from: TechieQuest