Joe Kissell shares guidelines, tricks, and much less-than-obvious new capabilities for Apple’s email program.

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I don’t know about any of you guys out there, but I absolutely hate rebates. They never seem to get processed correctly and always make you sit on a phone for 2 hours to get $50 bucks back. After my first rebate experience many years ago, I always just chalk the rebate up as phone cost.

I think Verizon feels the same way as I do; they are moving away from those pesky rebates. If the net price of the smartphone is more then $150 bucks there will be NO rebate at all. If the net price of the smartphone is $149 below, there will be a $50 mail in rebate. Not sure if this will be a long term strategy or just through the dates specified on the ad. I hope it stays permanently.

Not a bad strategy really. I still feel like the carriers made a lot of mistakes early on that they are still paying for now. The rebate thing is one, the other is subsidized pricing. If we as consumers can start getting away for the carriers as the phone source, I think we could all see much better phones. Yes, that would mean full cost phones, but also no more contracts. It would also force the carriers to start competing with price plans and not with devices. Just my 2 cents on the subject.

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Another week, another Phandroid AppCast. This week saw many major updates to apps in the Android Market, and we cover a few along with the new MMORPG Pocket Legends and the YouTube Remote. For those out there not wanting to spend the cash or dignity to see what Hustler’s new Android app is all about, we got that covered, too. While it ended up being more safe for work than not, be warned that the last minute or two of this week’s ‘Cast features lingerie and swimsuit-clad pornstars. Check it out:

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The Yahoo! Mail Android App by Yahoo! Inc. allows you to access your Yahoo! Mail accounts on your Android device. In addition to having acess to multiple Yahoo! Mail accounts you can recieve push notifications for each acount as well. For composing e-mails you have the ability to send and recieve attachments, preview photos in your inbox, use rich text and emotions. Smart folders and powerful search featrures are also included with this app.

When the app first loads you can log into your Yahoo! Mail accounts one by one in order to access them with this app. You also have the option to create a new Yahoo! Mail acount from the home screen which after the first time you add or create a Yahoo! Mail account will be the Acounts menu. To access Yahoo! MEssenger as well as the Compose, Search, Refresh Options and More (the ability to Add a folder, empty trash and empty spam) features press the menu button on your Android device when you have the account you want on your screen.

Overall, this is a great app for accessing and utilizing your Yahoo! Mail account(s) on your Android device. The Yahoo! Messenger feature is a nice bonus as well. At the time of this review the Yahoo! Mail Android App is free. Thumbs Up.

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Yazsoft’s new Attachments Menu is a handy utility that lives in your OS X menu bar and gives you quick access to all of your Apple Mail attachments.

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Yazsoft’s new Attachments Menu is a handy utility that lives in your OS X menu bar and gives you quick access to all of your Apple Mail attachments.

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Yahoo recently revamped its webmail site to deliver a richer, HTML5-powered experience to iPhone users, and now the company has done the same for iPad users.

Go to the Yahoo Mail website on your iPad and you’ll see the new, fully juiced-up HTML5 version instead of the older mobile version.

Yahoo mail the world’s largest webmail site — it has over 275 million users — but the site lags behind second-runner-up Gmail when it comes to innovation with HTML5 on the iPad and other touchy-swipey browsing devices.

Still, the new Yahoo Mail looks pretty slick. Scrollable photo previews now appear inside e-mail messages, and it supports offline local cache so you can keep working even when you’re out of range.

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Wish Apple’s Mail could do something? There might already be a feature for that. Learn how to take advantage of Mail’s not so obvious abilities to efficiently e-mail a group, view multiple mailboxes at the same time, and more.

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Just like the Hotmail icon that started showing up for BIS users about a month ago, it appears as if AOL mail is now showing a new icon of its own. Adrian let us know that this AOL icon is now showing on the device replacing the standard globe icon. So far just Hotmail and AOL are showing off, while a few users have reported seeing this for Yahoo! as well. We’re pretty sure this is an after-effect of the updated BIS rollout but haven’t been able to verify it. No love on the Gmail front however, but if things keep up we may see that change in the near future as well. Thanks Adrian!

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Live Mail is Hotmail’s companion application, and it gives you many more tools than its web-based sibling.

Hotmail can aggregate multiple email accounts. Live Mail can do that too (now including Exchange), but it also gives you one place for managing multiple online calendars, RSS feeds, contacts and newsgroups.

If you’re used to Outlook Express, Live Mail can replace it, and do a lot more as well. For example, email is the most common way of sharing photos. Live Mail works with this by making images attached to email appear in a filmstrip at the top of the message. When you send photos, they are automatically arranged into an album on SkyDrive.

Unlike Hotmail, Live Mail doesn’t let you change the date when albums expire, but you do get other options, including the ability to change the file size, make images only available to the people you email and complete very basic tweaks to images before sending.

Productive changes

The new ribbon interface is particularly useful in this app, making the options for writing email easy to find.

Contacts and calendar open in the main window, but you can type in events and to-do items in the calendar within the Mail view. This is extremely useful, especially after you’ve been using it for a few days.

You can choose which of the eleven Quick Views you see in the folder pane. Outlook Express-style views and filters remain, but Quick Views are much more useful for finding the mail you need to deal with.

The new conversation view is clear and simple – messages in a thread are nested and you can expand or collapse them at will with a single click.

Live Mail has a remarkable amount of functionality packed into a neat and friendly interface. There are some oddities, but overall this is one of the best mail apps available out there, especially for Hotmail users.

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This just in, Yahoo has just released its Messenger and Mail clients for Android.

With the new Yahoo Mail app for Android, consumers can:

• Receive push notification of new email messages
• Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as to contacts in the native phone address book
• Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords
• Upload photos as attachments directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery
• View and download attachments
• Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
• Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders, and spam
• Easily toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps

With the new Yahoo Messenger app for Android, consumers can:

• Easily message friends, check friends’ status updates and availability and update their personal status and availability
• Send instant messages to friends via SMS text message
• Multitask and stay connected with the app working in the background; with push notifications, consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
• Get full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
• Send photos to friends directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery

In addition to Yahoo Mail & Messenger, Yahoo also has a search widget now available. With the widget a YahooSearch box is easily accessible on the home screen. With voice search for easier input, Search Assist for quick suggestions and recommendations, and auto-locate technology to deliver locally relevant results, the Yahoo Search Widget quickly provides the answers a user needs.

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Nokia turns to Yahoo for mobile mail, chat services
IDG News Service – Yahoo Mail and Messenger will power Nokia’s mobile mail and chat services starting later this year, the companies said during a press conference on Monday.

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