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Download Yahoo Toolbar

Before you download Yahoo Toolbar, you'll want to read this! Here's a breakdown of everything you need to know about Yahoo Toolbar:

About the Yahoo Toolbar 

Yahoo Toolbar

Just when you thought you've downloaded enough toolbars, Yahoo steps up with its very own free download of the Yahoo Toolbar, integrated with various Yahoo tools and services. This is an ideal toolbar for any casual Yahoo user: keep a tab on unread emails, check a map, bookmark a page on del.icio.us, find a Wikipedia entry, read current sports standings, check your Myspace profile on the fly, and get a whole bunch of other things done at your whim.

Customize Yahoo Toolbar

Customizing Yahoo Toolbar brings you to the remotely-hosted page above, where you can add or subtract features via a regular web page. Simply download Yahoo toolbar, install & finish adding features through this menu, and move your selections up or down on a list, click submit, and have your toolbar refresh to display its new settings. The most decent attribute of this site-based menu for the Yahoo Toolbar is that it gives you a full spectrum of what can be added (or taken off) of your toolbar, rather than scrolling through a long, monotonous drop-down list.

NEW: Yahoo Themed Toolbars 

In April 2008, Yahoo released four new themed toolbars:
  1. Yahoo Toolbar Download : Social Networking: By far, the most popular of the four new Yahoo toolbars: this one enables you to check for new messages on your Myspace, Facebook and other accounts right on the bar itself. You'll see an updated number of new messages on your toolbar, without having to visit the site over and over!
  2. Yahoo Toolbar Download: Shopping:
    Lets you link up your favorite shopping sites directly to the toolbar, and adds a new shopping search function to regular Yahoo searches
  3. Yahoo Toolbar Download: Celebrity Gossip:
    Snags RSS feeds of up-to-the-minute news about celebrity gossip and current events, with enhanced Yahoo search capabilities for celebrity gossip
  4. Yahoo Toolbar Download: Politics:
    See & send current events in politics -- keep track of the presidential candidacy, and more with this toolbar.

Yahoo Toolbar Presents "Anti-Spy" 

Anti-Spy is Yahoo's own spyware blocker and remover (think of it as a built in Spybot-fashioned service). It's integrated in your Yahoo Toolbar, and will appear automatically as the icon seen to your right. You'll most likely never have to run it on its own, as it is alway working - but the option is available to you in its drop down list.

Yahoo Toolbar vs. Google Toolbar 

Yahoo Toolbar vs. Google Toolbar

Real estate most likely isn't plentiful on your browser - so, which bar raises the bar? Yahoo has more options out of the box: set it up almost identically as you would set up your Firefox bookmarks bar. Yahoo offers many, if not most of the important web tools most people use - from Maps, to Wikipedia and Social Bookmarking services.

Pros to the Yahoo Toolbar: If you're a Yahoo fanatic and regularly use Yahoo Mail, it's not even a tough decision. Get a live update on the number of new emails that are waiting, or access anything else Yahoo, instantly. Conserve browser space by putting some of your bookmarks directly on the Yahoo Toolbar - even add your own custom chosen buttons. This toolbar has more features than Googles', hands down.

Cons to the Yahoo Toolbar: Obviously, it's not much of a help if you never use Yahoo.com, or need to check the Google Page Rank of every page you visit.

Yahoo Toolbar Tip: 

This tip is helpful for web designers, search engine optimization practitioners and general internet users: your browser has an option under "View" -> "Toolbars", where you can show or hide toolbars that you've already downloaded. Technically, you can load up your browser with as many toolbars as you want with no performance repercussions, and just use them when you desire: if you need to use Yahoo Toolbar's features, enable it, then disable it until you need it again. In essence, if you download Yahoo Toolbar, you don't necessarily have to keep it active at all times - just use it when you want to!

Download Yahoo Toolbar (yeah, it's free - of course.) 

In conclusion - download Yahoo Toolbar if you have a Yahoo e-mail account, use Yahoo.com on a weekly basis, or are looking for a better toolbar that lets you add what you want (instead of what they want you to use), reducing the clutter of your existing browser's built-in button bars:

 With Yahoo Toolbar's new themed toolbars, you can now go with a more customized experience that brings you information and features from the "niche" you're interested in.

If you're a web designer, download Yahoo Toolbar solely for its ability to cram more custom bookmarks, and take advantage of the social bookmarking feature. If you're using your browser's bookmark bar, you can essentially double the number of bookmarks on your screen at the same time...pretty convenient!

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