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Settings give you more control.

The little icons at the top of each module may be small and unassuming, but they can be quite useful in getting your page exactly the way you want it.

Refresh (circling arrows): Click this when you want the freshest information possible. If new items are available, they’ll appear in your module.

Module Options (cog): Access a bunch of settings and functions specific to that module.
• Set the amount of information you want to show in each module such as number of headlines or format (include images, headlines only, short summaries, etc.)
• Share the module with someone by email or IM
• Set up Alerts

Here’s an example from the Engadget module:

Delete (X): You can probably figure that one out on your own.

My Yahoo!, the sequel.

What’s better than having your own My Yahoo! page? Having more than one! You decide what each page contains – name them what you want and use your creative flair to personalize each one. It’s a great way to get at more information more quickly.

There are endless ways to use multiple pages… by hobby, sport, news topic, family interests, etc. Need ideas? Here are some from the My Yahoo! team:

My Personal Stuff / My Work Stuff / Funny Things
Music / Travel Dreams / Game Stuff / News
My Main Page / My Local Stuff / My Sports

A few tips to make this easier:
- Name your page whatever you want. Simply click the title bar, and start typing.
- Drag and drop content from one page to another.

What will your second page be?

What in the world?

Our editors have long known that the universe of people who use My Yahoo! is full of variety — not only do you use your My Yahoo! pages for different purposes, but you read them to keep up on news from different countries (and sometimes in languages other than English). That’s why we’ve added an international category to our content directory. Now you can browse for modules by region and country.

We asked our fellow Yahoos around the world for their favorite feeds by and about the people where they live, and collected them for your browsing pleasure. Tour around and add some international flavor to your page! And as always, let us know what you think.

The My Yahoo! Team

Stay right there.

Since My Yahoo! is your home on the Web, we figured we should make it easier for you to get comfy. So we set out to give you better ways to customize your page. Around here, we call it the inline extravaganza. That’s how we refer to letting you do more on your page itself, or inline.

No more navigating off your page to add content, change your layout, modify your settings or see what your page would look like in a new color. Now, all that is possible right from your page.

But we didn’t think that was quite enough. So we added a reader option that lets you view articles without leaving your page. Then we created module-specific controls (like how many items you want displayed in a module). Oh, and we improved the article previews (the little snippets that show up when you mouse over a headline) too.

We hope you like what we’ve done with the place.

The My Yahoo! Team

We made re-arranging your page even easier.

Huddled in the back room while observing a focus group of My Yahoo! users last year, we were a little surprised to hear that their most-requested feature was “drag-and-drop.”

“We have that now!” we said to each other — our mouths full of M&Ms. Now that we know how much you care about this feature, we started working on ways to make it even better (not to mention, ways to let you know we have it).

In the My Yahoo! Beta, you may have noticed a few (if subtle) improvements. Now you have more freedom to move modules where you want them (no more Narrow/Wide column limitations). There are also indicators to let you know when you’re in “drag-and-drop” mode (four way arrow), and where you’re about to place a module (a blue bar in most page colors).

So go ahead. Move things around. Then move them again…

The My Yahoo! Team