Yahoo! Go 3.0 Beta is now available for Windows Mobile devices. I thought I’d give it a spin, particularly because the upload to Flickr option seemed like it might be handy. This tutorial/review will walk you through installing, setting up and using Yahoo! Go 3.0 Beta. It will show you how to add additional widgets, perform searches, and use the Upload To Flickr widget.
- Using your Windows Mobile browser, navigate to http://go.yahoo.com. It should auto-detect your Windows Mobile phone, and prompt you to download the correct version. Click the Download link.
- And download the software. Once the download has completed, install it as you would any other Windows Mobile software. Make sure to install it to your device (not a storage card).
- Launch Yahoo! Go from your programs list. The first thing you’ll need to do is select your Country. Once you do, select Done and click it.
- Review the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, then Accept it.
- Assuming you have a Yahoo ID already, click Yes, I do. If you don’t, select No, I don’t and create one now.
- Then sign in with your Yahoo user name and password.
- After you’ve signed in, you’ll be presented with the main Yahoo! Go interface. Use the left/right buttons on your phone to navigate through the options, widgets etc.
- One of the things I found most promising about Yahoo! Go was its ability to upload to Flickr. Select Flickr from the list of widgets, and open it.
- The photos stored on your phone will be displayed in a horizontal row. Navigate to a photo you want to upload to Flickr.
- Once it’s highlighted, select it by clicking Mark. You’ll notice a small check mark in the upper left corner of the images thumbnail.
- Scroll down to Upload now and select it.
- Here’s where things get slightly confusion. Remember - this is beta software. Though the top status bar will say Uploading…, your photo isn’t actually uploading, yet. Highlight it, and click Select.
- Now you can add a title, description, tags and set the privacy level.
- I gave my picture a title.
- Then went back and selected Add description.
- Gave it one..
- and back at the main photo window, select Options. From that menu, select Done.
- Now your photo will upload.
- Go check your Flickr page, and sure enough the picture is there.
- Return to the main Yahoo! Go interface. Navigate to the Add widgets widget, and select it.
- Highlight Most Downloads and select it.
- I decided to add the FriendFeed widget, so I highlighted it and clicked Select.
- Then click Add it!.
- It will be added to the Yahoo! Go list of widgets.
- Now I can view my FriendFeed stream though Yahoo! Go.
- To use Yahoo! Go to perform searches, navigate to the main “essential starting point” widget and open it.
- The top bar is for search, so enter a phrase, keyword etc and click oneSearch.
- You’ll get a list of search results. Select the one you want to view..
- and Yahoo! Go will load the “Mobile adapted” version of that page.
- Ta-da! Fortunately, Simple Help looks decent’ish in Yahoo’s mobile’ized version.
- Explore the other options of Yahoo! Go at your leisure. All in all, it’s a neat product, and I’ll probably keep it installed on my Windows Mobile device (which is my way of saying it’s worth keeping around).
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I have the new Yahoo go 3.0 How do I get it to sync with my contact list in yahoo to my blackberry> it used to do this and I can not find it on the new version.
great article on using photo function of yahoo go - but where do i get help using their mail ap
does it do everything on line yahoo does - like save to draft
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