Yahoo Mail – All Revamped

If you are trying to decide which free email provider to sign up with, it is important to compare the features that you would have access to. Yahoo mail is still one of the most popular options, and has recently been revamped to steal back customers from Gmail and Hotmail. The following guide highlights some of the attractions of using this well established option.

If you want an email account that is both colorful and playful, you will not be disappointed by choosing Yahoo. You can pick from a range of fun themes to customize your account in a way that suites your personality. To access the themes gallery is easy, you just log in to your account and click on the help button, a drop down menu appears with the option of themes.

Another couple of interesting features unique to Yahoo mail is the notepad and calendar tools. There is an applications icon which when clicked leads to the option of using the calender or notepad, these are great features for those of us that want an email account that can be used to help organize our personal and work lives.

Nobody want to use an email account that is slow and unresponsive, Yahoo claim that their system is twice as fast as a year ago. Now, this is a statement that is hard to accurately test, but what is for sure is that you can quickly switch between inbox, spam, and contacts folders. The company also claims to have enhanced their spam protection, great news for those of us who get annoyed with having to spend time deleting junk mail from our inbox.

Social networks are all the rage today, Yahoo understand the importance of this. They have integrated both Facebook and Twitter functionality, users can now read status updates and post messages directly through the Whats New page, this is excellent news for those of us who want to keep up to date with our friends conveniently and quickly.

Another way in which Yahoo have stolen a march on their competitors is with the sideshow tool. You can now view Flickr and Picassa albums as sideshows directly in a mail window, this is a cool feature and perfect for those of us who like to check out our friends’ latest photos. There is also a tool that offers YouTube integration, perfect for those of us who like to check out videos.

If you receive lots of mails, it can be difficult finding an important email from a number of weeks or months ago. Fortunately, the newly revamped mail service offers you an easy way to search through your inbox. There is the option of filtering by attachment type, for example PDF, music, or images. This is filtering feature is not yet available with other well known email services.

Another convenient tool helps when adding attachments to your mails, yahoo mail users can now upload multiple attachments simultaneously. This can help to reduce the time and effort required when sending files to another account.