Yahoo Reboots: New design is sleek and intuitive

Yahoo has unveiled their new homepage design. It was earlier available at yahoo.com/preview but now they have moved it to their main domain. And to take care of users with old browsers, the old Yahoo page design is still available at yahoo.com/r/vq

The most impressive feature in the new design is that you can check your Yahoo Mail without leaving the homepage. Just hover the mouse over the Mail box and it shows a sleek preview of your unread Yahoo Mails. Similary, the Messenger tab notifies you about your online Yahoo buddies. Clicking on an online friend launches Yahoo Messenger.

Just like WSJ, NYTimes, CNN or The Guardian, Yahoo too has migrated to a wider page size since most users now have atleast 800x600 resolution monitors. There's is also an option to switch to a narrow layout or change the color themes.

Links to all the Yahoo services like Finance, Games, Shopping, etc are now on the right sidebar while sponsored links (advertisements) are placed at the bottom. That makes the design even more appealing.

Yahoo has come a long way from being an internet portal to a web service provider. In my opinion, Yahoo Homepage team has done a wonderful job. What do you think of the new design ?

How to Download Contacts from Facebook To Outlook Address Book

Facebook users are not too pleased with the "walled garden" approach of Facebook. The reason is simple - while you can easily import your Outlook address book and GMail contacts into Facebook, the reverse path is closed. There's no "official" way to export your Facebook friends email addresses or contact phone numbers out as a CSV file so that you can sync the contacts data with Outlook, GMail or your BlackBerry. Some third-party Facebook hacks like "Facebook Sync" (for Mac) and "Facebook Downloader" (for Windows) did allow you to download your Facebook friends' names, emails, mobile phone number and profile photo to the desktop but they were quickly removed for violation of Facebook Terms of Use. How to Download Contacts from Facebook There are still some options to take Friends data outside the walls of Facebook wall. Facebook offers the Takeout option allowing you to download all Facebook data locally to the disk (include

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PhishTank Detects Phishing Websites by Digg Style Voting

OpenDNS, a free service that helps anyone surf the Internet faster with a simple DNS tweak , will announce PhishTank today. PhishTank is a free public database of phishing URLs where anyone can submit their phishes via email or through the website. The submissions are verified by the other community members who then vote for the suspected site. This is such a neat idea as sites can be categorized just based on user feedback without even having to manually verify each and every submission. PhishTank employs the "feedback loop" mechanism where users will be kept updated with the status' of the phish they submit either via email alerts or a personal RSS feed . Naturally, once the PhishTank databases grows, other sites can harness the data using open APIs which will remain free. OpenDNS would also use this data to improve their existing phishing detection algorithms which are already very impressive and efficient. PhishTank | PhishTank Blog [Thanks Allison] Related: Google

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