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You read it right. Yahoo! has announced on its blog that it is going in for a revamp of the Yahoo! Mail Classic interface.

Yahoo! has added several new features to its Classic mail and also removed some. Looks like Yahoo! is making another attempt to retain users who do not like the new Y! mail interface and want to move to GMail for its cool features.

Yahoo! mail blog writes :

The Classic team has been working diligently to fine tune the underlying technology for Classic Mail. That fine tuning is the foundation that has been critical not only in making the product available in Hindi, but also in making it easier to update features for all of Classic. In short, they are both part of the same overall project.

Some of the new features which Yahoo! has added are :

1. Auto-save to Draft - Greate feature if your computer crashes while composing a mail.
2. Address Book = Contacts - All references to “Address Book” got changed to “Contacts” in the new Yahoo! Mail Classic.
3. Folder Renaming - Rename your Yahoo! mail folders from within the interface itself.
4. Downloading - In most cases, downloading now requires just one click!
5. Rich-text/Plain-text link - On the Compose page above the message window, you can click either Rich Text or Plain Text to select the format you prefer.

In short, some good new features to have.

I think Yahoo! will be refining the Classic interface slowly to give a competition to GMail. And overall it will be good choice for the users too …

Finally a new laptop. I have brought a new Dell Vostro 1400 laptop for my personal use. This one is much more powerful than my older PC and runs Windows Vista with all its effects.

Here is the config of my new laptop…

1. Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo Processor T5470 @ 1.6GHz, 2MB Cache, 800 MHz FSB
2. 14.1″ UltraSharp(TM) Widescreen WXGA+ (1440×900) TFT Display with TrueLife(TM)
3. 2GB (2 X 1024MB) 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
4. NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 8400M GS with 128MB GDDR3 dedicated graphic memory
5. 160GB SATA Hard Drive 
6. Internal 8X DVD+/-RW Combination Drive with dual layer write capabilities
7. Black LCD Cover with 2.0 MP Camera
8. Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy ADVANCED HD Audio
9. All the usual laptop jazz … Bluetooth, Wireless Card, 9 cell battery and 90W AC adapter

I have also got a 160 kbps unlimited internet connection. So I hope to resume my blogging again …. 

 Do tell me whether you like the config or not …

The buzz continues round the blogosphere that Google is penalizing blogs which sell text links. Every other big blog I knew have lost their pagerank by more than half.

The good news is my blog’s page rank has not fallen. It is at the same PR of 4.

What happened to your page rank ? Did it decrease ?

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