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Free
Yahoo accounts for individuals |
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Yahoo
is a portal site that offers many free services.
Yahoo's main portal page is
available to anyone in the world: www.yahoo.com |
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Anyone with
a Yahoo ID can have a free personalized "My Yahoo" page. Just go to www.yahoo.com
and hit the "My/Personalize" button at the top of the
page.
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Meet
Lily Richards. If her ISP is Cablevision, her normal email address might be lilyrichards@optonline.net.
If her ISP is AOL, it might be lilyrichards@aol.com. |
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Lily
Richards gets a
free Yahoo account.
At www.yahoo.com,
she hits My/Personalize and requests a Yahoo ID.
Since lilyrichards is already taken, she requests and gets
lilyrichards2001. She
specifies workshop as her password. |
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Lily
has a free webmail account now.
Her Yahoo webmail address is lilyrichards2001@yahoo.com.
This is in addition to her normal email address. |
She can
use this account, or not. |
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Lily signs in
to open her "My Yahoo" page:
She goes to
www.yahoo.com
and hits the My/Personalize button.
In the boxes, she writes: ID lilyrichards2001; password
workshop.
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She can
make this her "home page" or not. |
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Lily
customizes
her own "My Yahoo" page by selecting some modules: |
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Calendar |
Her own dates
and reminders. |
Other modules
include sports news, cartoons, a notepad, and much more. |
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Weather |
Her local
weather, and other places too. |
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News |
Her favorite
news sources. |
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Stocks |
For
her stocks, news and charts. |
For
help, use the Yahoo help menus. |
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Movies |
Theater
schedules in her neighborhood. |
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TV |
Schedules of
her
favorite channels. |
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Bookmarks |
Links to her
favorite websites. |
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Lily
decides to
use the free computer space that comes with her account. |
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 Web page.
She can have her
own web page, with the URL
http://www.geocities.com/lilyrichards2001/About_Lily.html |
20 MB |
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Briefcase.
To store and share computer files.
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30 MB
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Photo
albums. To store and share photos. |
30 MB
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And last but not
least, she decides to use her one Yahoo ID to subscribe to one or more Yahoo Groups.
More
about Yahoo Groups. |
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