On Windows, GmailDefaultMaker is a handy free lightweight application that will open mailto: links in your preferred webmail client; despite its name it can route email links to Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo! It’s also a free download, and comes pre-configured for several popular webmail clients, including Yahoo! MORE >>

However, I found little value over using separate tools such as Yahoo Groups and a PBWiki. Because of this I could easily have used another two weeks to more gradually introduce the tools. Or dedicate the first 2 sessions to learning and applying the tools one at a time in our homework. approaches. See the next topic. MORE >>

Tester invites started going out to the dramatically-overhauled new Yahoo Calendar beta, and we were one of the lucky ones to give it a spin. As Webware reports , the YCal beta is based on Zimbra, the open source email, contacts, and calendaring solution Yahoo acquired last year. Presenting the All-New Yahoo Calendar Beta MORE >>

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. That post focused primarily on how Social Bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. tools apply to this need. tools could be used as part of a system that would support them in this challenge. If not, why not? MORE >>

Filtering RSS feeds through Yahoo Pipes or other tools is a good way to make sure that your monitoring dashboard contains relevant content and not just a list of blogs to read. Yahoo Pipes can also be used to combine many feeds and filter those high-volume RSS feeds for only relevant content that you need to know. MORE >>