1. Buying from hawkers
2. Sitting on a flower pot in the CBD
3. Spitting on any footpath or blowing the nose aimlessly other than into a suitable cloth or tissue
4. Taking or alighting from a matatu from a non-designated area

5. Crossing the road while you are on the phone
6. Making any kind of noise on the streets
7. Playing any game, riding or driving or propelling on a foot path
8. Graffiti
9. Owner of a burning building should pay for fire fighting services whether the owner requested for attendance or not.
10. Loitering, importuning or attempting to procure a female/male for prostitution purposes.
11. Having you car with a ‘FOR SALE’ sign and haven’t paid the council is also punishable.

The City’s survival tips

1.       The moment you get into the council courts and charged, please plead guilty because only then, will you be allowed to pay a fine of a maximum of Sh2000. If you deny the charges you may be arrested for two days with no fine.
2.       Do not argue with the council askaris if you know that you are guilty as charged.  You might just double your fine.
3.       If you are one who toa’s “kitu kidogo”, Bribes are unacceptable after/immediately the lorry has entered the city council’s compound.
4.       M-PESA is not allowed to pay for a crime.
5.       Someone else MUST pay your fine. You cannot pay the fine yourself after you have been charged.

Ø The other day I saw a man was arrested by kanjo  for pulling his suit case on its wheels, they want you to carry it n not pull it – yet to find out the fine.

Start Outlook Express

There are many ways to start Outlook Express, but here’s a sure-fire way to find and start it.

1. Click the Start button.
2. Point to All Programs.
3. Click Outlook Express, These first three steps are shown in the image below:
   
4. If asked whether you’d like to open this particular account automatically every time you start Outlook Express, click Yes (if you do) or No (if you don’t).
5. If you don’t want to be asked this question again, click to check the Always perform this check… box.
6. Check When Outlook Express starts, go directly to my Inbox.
7. Outlook Express directs all incoming mail to the Inbox, so it makes sense to bypass this opening page.
8. If you don’t see the list of folders and contacts on the left, click Layout on the View menu. Click Contacts and Folder List to check them, and then click OK.
9. Quick start. You’ll notice that when you use Outlook Express regularly, Windows XP will put the Outlook Express icon on the Start menu (along with other programs you’ve used recently). In that case, just click the Outlook Express icon in the Start menu to open the program

Set Up an Outlook Express E-Mail Account

The Internet Connection Wizard makes short work of setting up your online mailbox by walking you through each step for every e-mail account you set up.Before you get going, make sure you know your email address along with the following information.

First, information about the e-mail servers:

• The type of e-mail server you use: POP3 (most e-mail accounts), HTTP (such as Hotmail), or IMAP
• The name of the incoming e-mail server
• For POP3 and IMAP servers, the name of the outgoing e-mail server (generally SMTP)

Second, information about your account:

• Your account name and password

1. Start Outlook Express, and on the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. Click Add, and then click Mail to open the Internet Connection Wizard
3. On the Your Name page of the wizard, type your name as you want it to appear to everyone who gets e-mail from you, and then click Next.
4. On the Internet Explorer Address page, type your e-mail address, and then click Next.
5. On the E-mail Server Names page, fill in the first block of information



6. On the Internet Mail Logon page, type your account name and passwordNote: If you’re concerned about break-ins to your e-mail, click to clear the check in the Remember Password box. You’ll then be prompted for the password each time you send or retrieve mail.

   

7. Click Next, and then click Finish.

To Set Up Your E-mail Account in Microsoft Outlook

1. In Microsoft Outlook, from the E-mail Accounts menu, select Tools.

   

2. For your server type, select POP3 and then click Next.

   

3. On the Internet E-mail Settings (POP3/IMAP) window, enter your information as follows:
   • Your Name
   • Your first and last name.
   • E-mail Address
   • Your email address.
   • User Name
   • Your email address, again.
   • Password
   • Your email account password.
   • Incoming mail server (POP3)
   • Outgoing mail server (SMTP)



4. Click More Settings
   On the Internet E-mail Settings window, go to the Outgoing Server tab.
5. Select My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication.
   



6. If you did not change the SMTP relay section, select Use same settings as my incoming mail server. If you changed the user name and password in the SMTP relay section of your Manage Email Accounts page, select Log on using and enter the user name and password. The following example assumes you did not change your SMTP relay section in your Manage Email Accounts page.



7. Go to the Advanced tab, and then change the Outgoing server (SMTP) port to 25 or 80 and Pop 110.

   

8. Click OK.
9. Click Next.
10. Click Finish.

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When launching a new e-commerce business, finding the best web host for your needs can be a tremendously daunting task. There are simply so many web hosts out there and it is a tiresome and grueling process to separate the good guys from the bad. Many folks looking to start a website begin by checking out web hosting review sites and directories. On these sites, you can read what clients have to say about their current and former web hosts.

However, there is a bit of a problem with many of these hosting review sites – bias. The majority of these websites are actually owned by web hosting companies and most, if not all, sell advertising space. In theory, if a host has a big marketing budget then they can buy their way into the marketplace. A review site is not generally going to give a negative review to a company that is spending thousands of marketing dollars with them.

When searching for a host, do not be suckered into buying into gimmicks. Things like “unlimíted” plans may sound appealing, but there is really no such thing as “unlimíted.” When a company says that, they mean that your site will be generally placed on an overcrowded server where you will be forgotten about. It’s important to research the history of the company and find a reliable host with great technical support.

Your Host Dramatically Impacts the Performance of Your Website

There are a variety of major ways that your web host impacts the performance of your online store including:

1. Uptime and Downtime
2. Technical Support
3. Site Speed and Page Load Times
4. Management of your account including data, email, backups
5. Virus Protection
6. Defense from Hackers and Malware
7. The ability of your hosting to grow with your business (you should be able to acquire space with one quick, simple call)

No Such Thing As Good Downtime

Choosing a reliable web host and the correct plan for the amount of traffic your site will generate is of the utmost importance to the success of your online business. Site uptime and downtime are perhaps the most important components of how web hosting affects an online website’s performance. Downtime can really break an online business quickly.

Simply speaking, when your site is down and inaccessible then customers cannot make purchases and you cannot earn revenue. Furthermore, potential customers cannot peruse your site. Let’s face it – people shop online to save time and money. If your site is continuously down, then you will not be able to make it in the competitive marketplace of the Internet.

The industry standard for web hosts regarding downtime is a 99.9% uptime guarantee. Don’t sign up for a hosting package that does not guarantee at least 99.9% uptime because this will surely negatively impact the performance of your store. To put it in more practical terms, with 99.9% uptime, your site shouldn’t ever encounter more than around 45 minutes of total downtime per month.
Sometimes there might be a situation where your server has a critical error and your site may not be online for 99.9% of the month. In any such case, it is your host’s responsibility to reimburse your account with the pro-rated amount you owe for that month’s charges.

Quality Support is a Must
Reliability and good technical support go hand in hand. When choosing a new host, make sure that they have an excellent support staff. When you first call them, go with your gut instinct. Do they sound knowledgeable and easy to understand? Are they polite? Ask detailed questions and make sure you get well-informed responses. You want to have the comfort of knowing that in any instances of malfunction your issues will be resolved quickly and correctly. A solid web host will have email and phone support available 24/7/365.

Looking, feeling and operating professionally are critical components to running an e-commerce business. Having a sub par web host will toss professionalism out the window rather quickly. It is imperative to establish trust between you and your customers in order to successfully sell online. Customers will not feel safe spending their money with a site that seems unprofessional in any manner.

A Speedy Site is Essential

Another manner in which your web host can impact your store’s performance is your page load times. This can even affect your ranking within Google and the other search engines as they begin using site speed as a factor to determine page rank on the results pages. Having fast load times is imperative not only for the sake of ranking well with search engines but to make your customers happy. No customers like a slow site and chances are that if your site is not performing well, they might just click on over to your competition.

A Solid Web Host + A Good Business Model = Happy Customers + Success

Unsatisfactory web hosting can directly impact the customers of your website Therefore, it is imperative that you choose a quality web host that will not play a part in your store functioning inadequately. Studies have shown that approximately fifty percent of consumers will leave a preferred site if they are experiencing technical problems. All it takes is one unhappy customer to begin the process of bringing down your business. If a customer is not happy, the following results could occur:
1. They may not ever return to your website as a shopper again (this is especially traumatic to your business if they are repeat customers)
2. Word of mouth is a big deal. Unhappy customers have big mouths and they will most likely vent their frustrations with others.
3. A dissatisfied customer may leave a negative review regarding your business on a forum, message board or review site. One bad review can stick with you and your business forever so you must go to all lengths to avoid them.

If it does happen, be proactive about it and try to squash it as soon as possible. Try to explain your side and apologize to the customer (remember, the customer is always right). Provide the person a discount or their money back to appease them. With today’s social networks, news travels fast. One tweet could go viral and your brand and image can be quickly tarnished.

If the very idea of wasting company time deleting junk e-mail makes your blood boil, then it’s time to take action to reduce the amount of spam you and your employees are dealing with. These five tips won’t make spam go away — but they can reduce the amount of downtime you spend attending to it.

1. Activate junk mail filters. If the e-mail system you use doesn’t have built-in filters, then you should download a stand-alone junk mail filter or change e-mail clients. (Read about some of the innovative anti-spam features in Outlook 2003 below.)

2. Reduce your exposure. If your company website includes an e-mail link, you’re going to get junk mail. An alternative approach is to encourage site visitors to manually enter your e-mail address – and explain why you’re doing it. If you submit your site to search engines, be selective and determine that they’re reputable. Don’t allow employees to post their business e-mail addresses to newsgroups or other public websites.

3. Never reply to spam. That’s a sure-fire way to alert spammers that they have an active e-mail address.

4. Be wary of HTML e-mails. These can contain Web beacons or tracking codes that allow senders to log your e-mail address and possibly other information once you’ve opened their mail.

5. Use a dedicated e-mail account for Web transactions. If you purchase goods and services online, or sign up for free e-mail newsletters, consider using one of the free Web-based e-mail services such as Hotmail for Web transactions. That way you can keep your real e-mail address private.

How Junk Mail Filters Work
If you use Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003, you probably use Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager to send and receive e-mail messages and to manage your contacts and sales opportunities. You should also know that this latest version of Outlook comes loaded with powerful spam-fighting features including — among others — a junk mail filter utilising state-of-the-art technology. The filter evaluates whether a message should be treated as junk mail based on several factors, including when it was sent and the content and structure of the message.

By default, the filter is set to a low setting to identify the most obvious spam. Any messages trapped by the filter are sent to a special Junk Mail folder that can be accessed at a later time. You have the option of setting the filter to be more aggressive, but you also run the risk of sending legitimate messages to the Junk Mail folder. However, these messages aren’t lost; they’re just not displayed in your in-box. You can also configure Outlook 2003 to permanently delete junk mail messages as they come in.

To change junk e-mail settings in Outlook 2003:

1. On the Tools menu, select Options.

2. In the Options dialog box, in the E-mail section, click Junk E-mail.

3. Choose the level of junk e-mail message protection you want.

4. Click OK.

Set Up a Safe E-Mail List
To prevent e-mail messages you want to receive from landing in the Junk Mail folder, you can add e-mail addresses and domain names to a Safe Senders List, assuring all messages from those addresses will go to your in-box. With this system:

• Contacts are trusted by default.
• If your company uses Microsoft Exchange Server, messages from within your organisation will never be treated as junk mail.
• You can configure Outlook 2003 to accept messages only from those on your Safe Sender list.

Additional anti-spam features in Outlook 2003 allow you to:

• Add e-mail addresses and domain names to a Blocked Senders list, ensuring messages from Blocked Senders will always be routed to the Junk Mail folder.
• Add e-mail lists or groups you’re a member of to a Safe Recipients list, ensuring messages sent to the e-mail addresses and domain names on the list will not be treated as junk mail, regardless of the sender or message content.
• Update your Junk Mail filter with the latest methods for blocking unwanted e-mail. Microsoft is committed to providing periodic updates to the filter.

There may never be a time when junk mail is totally eradicated. But with the right software and some basic precautions, you should be able to significantly reduce business disruptions caused by spam.

The best web design agency in Kenya – or anywhere in the world – should exceed your expectations and create a website for your business that is SEO-friendly, compelling and most importantly, converts customers. Knowing what you want doesn’t always translate into getting what you want.

It is important to interview potential web design companies carefully to ensure you choose the right one for your business.

A frequent mistake that businesses make is hiring a web design company too quickly — primarily based on price. Your website is a visual representation of your business and a poorly designed site can frustrate visitors, misrepresent your products and even lose sales.

Before you hire a web design firm, research the answers to these questions:

1. How Much Experience Does The Web Design Company Have? Do They Have Any Special Qualifications Or Designations?

Longevity in the industry is a good indicator of stability and skill. Web design firms who have been in the business for a while and built admirable reputations are usually known for sound design work and customer service. Choosing a web design company that has been around longer means they will be more likely to be around in the future for ongoing maintenance and updates to your site.

The answer to this question will give you a general idea about the skill set at the web company. Having a tertiary qualification is good. Having a lot of experience is better, and combining experience with a tertiary education is best.

2. How Many Staff Members Do They Have And What Are Their Roles?

Bigger is not necessarily better when it comes to effective web design companies. Most companies on average have one graphic designer, a couple of web developers, and a few sales and project management people.

3. In Addition To Website Design, What Other Services Does The Agency Offer?

Many prominent web design firms are branching out and offering other services besides web development and design. SEO, Search Engine Marketing, Web Content Writing, Social Media Marketing, Blog promotion, and Google Adwords Management are services offered by many experienced Kenyan web design companies. The key is finding a company that offers the services that you are looking for.

4. Does The Web Design Firm Spend Time With You To Gather Business Knowledge And Give You A Formal Proposal?

It is good to select a web and logo design Kenyan company that will take the time to offer a custom solution for your website.. Your website will play a large part in your overall brand marketing. Therefore, it is important that your web design firm have a clear picture of your overall marketing goals.

5. What Are The Web Designer And Web Developer’s Payment Terms?

For anything from a small non-profit site to full corporate branding, most Kenyan web design companies will charge an upfront deposit and stage payments based on agreed milestones and deliverables. Be wary of any web design firm that asks for payment in full before starting the project.

6. What Is The Web Design And Development Company’s Policy On Non-Disclosure And Privacy Of Information?

In order to create the perfect website for you, your web design and web development firm needs access to important information about your company — information you wouldn’t want your competition, or anyone else, to know.

This is particularly true if you are starting a new company. You don’t want others to steal your concept before you’ve had a chance to monetize it. Therefore, a solid non-disclosure and privacy policy will protect your information.

7. What Are The Average Timelines For Completing Your Web Design Project Including Ecommerce, Logo Design, And Corporate Branding?

Ask what the web design firm considers to be a typical turn-around time for projects similar in size to your own. This should give you a fairly clear idea if the designer/developer has time tracking and project management systems in place. If you have a hard deadline that you need to meet, be sure you tell the design company up front so that they can plan accordingly.

8. Who Will Be Your Central Point Of Contact For Your Web Design Project?

It is important to have a single point of contact for your project to ensure nothing gets lost in translation. A Project Manager should be assigned to all web projects. If you are working with a small web company, however, the Project Manager may also be the web designer and/or web developer himself.

9. Does The Website Development And Design Company Outsource Any Project Components To Third Parties? If So, Which Components?

While outsourcing may be a valid business decision to save costs and keep overheads lower, you’ll want to be cautious with any web design company who takes your project and out-sources large components to another company. If you have concerns about low quality, cheap labour, and remote project management issues when jobs are outsourced to another company, be sure to bring them up before your project begins.

10. Can The Web Development And Design Company Help With Website Content Copy Writing?

SEO copywriting can make or break your website. Your website design may draw the reader in and focus their attention where it needs to be – but the words themselves do the selling. And if the content is optimised correctly, your website can be showing up on the front pages of the search engines for your chosen search terms.

Be sure the web design firm you choose offers copywriting and ask to see samples. This will give you a good foundation on which to base your decision.

11. What Programming Languages And Operating Systems Does The Website Development Company Work With?

Ideally, your web development company should offer both the open source PHP/MySQL and ASP.NET programming languages. They should make a technical recommendation on which Platform would best meet your needs and budget.

12. What Is Covered In The Firm’s Website Testing/Quality Checking Phase? Are You Able To See The Website While It Is Still In Development?

Basic testing requirements should be browser testing, checking for broken links and general usability tests to ensure the website is easy for website visitors to use and interact with. By seeing a development staging version, you will be able to check the website before the launch date and make any necessary adjustments.

13. Does The Design Firm Allow Clients To Host Their Websites With Any Host?

Sometimes, for the sake of functionality or other good reasons, a web company may ask that you host your website with them, but this is not always the case. You may have existing commercial relationships with an ISP or web hosting company that you would prefer to use. It is important to know before hiring a web design firm if they will require you to move hosting to them.

14. Do They Provide Any Training Once The Website Is Launched?

If your website project includes customised systems or software, it can be extremely helpful if your web design company provides you with training documents for future reference. If your system is very detailed, it might even be optimal to arrange for a training program or ongoing customer support.

15. Is The Website Design And Development Firm Knowledgeable in SEO? Is This Included In Your Quote, Or Are There Extra Charges?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a science in itself; an experienced Internet marketing company should be able to offer you a variety of options including organic, PPC and social media marketing. Depending on your business requirements, you should consider hiring a web design company that can create a custom online campaign to help you achieve maximum results.

16. What Is The Charge For Website Updates After The Initial Website Is Completed?

Be aware of the charging structure for updates to your website. Consider how often you will require updates to your website and ask the web design firm how they handle future updates and maintenance.

If you have frequent or large updates to your website, you could consider a Content Management System. A CMS is only really useful in the event of regular changes and if a staff member has good training in it. If neither are the case, it may just be cheaper to have the supplier to manage small updates.

17. What If You Find A Problem Or Code Bug After The Site Is Finished? Does The Design Company Have Any Kind Of Code Warranty Or Guarantee?

Often web companies will make the change if it is small for no additional costs. However, be aware that if it is a change and not a bug fix, you may be required to pay extra. Typically, web design companies will give you several designs to approve initially and then involve you every step of the way. Each approved section of the project is considered finished. Going back and making changes — even if they seem simple — can be costly.

18. Is The Copyright For The Website Transferred To You When The Project Is Complete? What About Images In The Website? Logo Design?

Copyright law is a specialised legal field. You should ask to own the copyright on all of the work designed and developed after you have paid in full for the project.

20. Will The Website Development Company Comment Your Source Code?

Commenting code is part of good website development. If code is commented well, you won’t spend a lot of time if the unthinkable happens and you’re forced to find another supplier either part way through the project or its maintenance.

Finding the answers to these questions may seem time consuming and quite involved, but it is an important part of the interview process. After you have interviewed several companies and had your questions and concerns addressed, you should be able to select a talented web design and web development company that is knowledgeable and easy to work with. The firm you choose also needs to have the ability to produce a web design and website that represents and enhances your overall corporate branding.

There’s a change in the dynamics of the marketing mix for busines in Kenya. Marketers in Kenya are using more online marketing tools like search, social networks, blogs, podcasts and RSS and less traditional marketing tactics for businesses. In fact, social network marketing is fast on the rise and is currently the second most popular online marketing tactic. Whether you are marketing to other businesses or marketing to consumers, social networks must be in your marketing mix.

Online ad spending is rising. Ad spending for MySpace grew from 525 million in 2009 to 810 million in 2009. Facebook ad spending grew from 125 million to 215 million in 2009. Spending increases in other social networks like MSN, Yahoo and other niche or marketer sponsored sites is also made some upward trend. (eMarketer – Aug 13, 2009).

Marketing Formats on Social Networks

There are several ways to advertise or market on these sites:
• Banner Ads & Display Ads: They are back and they are very popular. Banner ads can be located across the top or bottom of the site, or they can be located on the side in smaller sizes.
• Creating Groups or Networks: Many companies create a group or network that people can join. It’s not about blatant advertising of their products or services, but about demonstrating and sharing their knowledge in their area of business (i.e. a writing magazine has a fantasy writing network or a landscaping company has a gardening network). It’s a form of viral marketing – especially if you get a lot of people joining the group.
• Creating Profiles: Some companies go so far as to create a profile on Facebook or MySpace. Again, this is not necessarily about advertising products or services. Most social network users probably wouldn’t connect up with a profile that is selling something. Profiles are similar to blogs in that they allow a business to share their knowledge of a particular subject and in some cases bring a real person to the forefront to give the business a more personal appeal.

Which Social Network Should You Use?

Banner Ads
Although MySpace is the most visited social network, Facebook gets more attention from marketers and is one of the fastest growing social networks. Should you choose one of these or another site altogether? To increase awareness of your brand, try to spread your marketing funds over several social networks. Aim for the ones you think your target audience is spending a lot of time on. Find out which ones your competition is marketing on.

Groups and Profiles
If you are creating groups or profiles, be prepared to spend time updating these on a regular basis. In this case, it may be smarter to select one or two networks and focus on bringing value to the people who connect with you.

Measuring the Success of Social Network Advertising
Measuring banner ads isn’t about click through rates anymore but about post impression analysis. This means that a person doesn’t have to click the ad to go to the business’s website to have that ad considered successful. It’s about conversions based on viewing the ad and then later going to the website (within a specified time period).

As for creating groups or networks, marketers are still trying to understand their effectiveness and how to truly measure it.

In order for a marketing tactic to be considered viable and successful, there must be a way to measure their effectiveness (conversion rates). So think carefully about what social networks to advertise or join and figure out how you are going to track their effectiveness. If you are not tracking, then you are not marketing. To be successful in your marketing efforts you need to have social network marketing in your basket.

So whatever your strategy is, the number of hits your ad, flyer, banner, profile or group gets adds up to the overall success of your product or services. Being on the upward trend there can only be one thing, as you pay for the ad hoping for positive result, the founder and owners of these sites are laughing all the way to the bank

But to get the best be social and hit the net because the net is always fun.

1. What’s the purpose of the domain name?
How are you planning to use this name? If the domain name will be your primary company website, try finding the closest version to your company name that you can. If you’re just starting out, choose your business name and domain name with care. Make sure your visitors know what your domain name means or, if it’s an acronym, what it stands for.

2. Brainstorm a list of ideas of the problem you’re trying to solve or the solution that you have.
A domain name that clearly indicates what you do or a problem that you solve, or a solution that you have to a problem will give a visitor a fairly clear picture of what he’ll/she’ll find on your website. Visit the domain checker at www.heartbitsolutions.com , and just start plugging in the names you’re brainstorming until you come up with 3 or 4 that are available.

3. For SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes, it helps to have your keywords in your domain name.
Before buying your domain, make a list of keywords that someone might use to find you online. This list could include your industry, your target market or niche, a problem your target market has, or a solution that you can offer.

4. Shorter is better, if it’s to be your primary domain.
If the domain name is going to be your primary domain where your primary email address will be housed, you want your domain name to be as short, catchy, and memorable as possible. After a few times of spelling out your lengthy email address, you’ll come to appreciate the beauty of a short domain name. Your domain name can contain up to 67 letters and numbers, although I would encourage you not to have one of this length, and can contain no special characters other than hyphens.

5. Purchase your given name as a domain name.
It pays to purchase your given name as a domain name, as well as any common misspellings of your name. Once you’ve purchased your name as a domain, you can redirect it to your primary website. This means that when someone types in a domain, they land at the website to which you pointed that domain.

6. Buy the .COM version of the name if it is available.
When people hear a domain name, they “hear” .COM whether it’s .NET or .BIZ or .ORG or whatever. So, it pays to find a domain name that you like that is part of the .COM family. If you just can’t get the name you want, try a hyphenated version of the .COM name. Many SEO specialists state that search engines like hyphenated names, and many online business owners use hyphenated keywords in their domain names to be more attractive to search engines. Some domain name holders may be willing to sell you the domain name that you want.

7. Consider owning other versions of your primary domain name.
If you are registering the .COM version of a domain for your business, you may also want to secure variations of the name, alternate spellings, common misspellings, and the .NET and .ORG versions of your domain and re-point them to your main site to keep them out of the hands of your competitors.

There…Your domain name is the beginning of the establishment of your presence online, Take some time and put some thought into the process so that the domain name serves you well in the years to come, and is an effective tool for helping you get more clients online!

Yahoo Mail is a very popular email technology that has millions of users in every corner of the world. That’s why numerous consumers are looking for simple solutions to access and controltheir accounts as well as send and receive messages. As you probably know, Yahoo provides POP3 support only for the premium members so, if you want to set up your Yahoo Mail account to work with an email client, you should pay for it.

Now, there are numerous applications that allow you to control the Yahoo Mail account but what if you’re able to set the mail service as the default application in your Windows operating system?

Well, this can be done by following some simple steps. Before presenting them to you, let me explain it a little bit. First of all, this procedure would allow you to open straight up the Yahoo Mail Compose window once you click on a mailto link that usually pops out your email client. This way, you can write a message in a matter of seconds without having to load the official page of Yahoo, click on mail and then login into your account. Also, this trick works with Internet Explorer and Firefox, so every time you click on an email address it will automatically open a browser instance to write the message.

So, here’s what you must do: go over to Control Panel (Start/Settings/Control Panel) and click on ‘Internet Options’. This should open the ‘Internet Properties’ window that allows you to configure the Internet access details. Click on the ‘Programs’ tab and, in the ‘Email drop-down’ menu, select Yahoo Mail. If you can’t see Yahoo Mail in the list, there is no problem, all you need to do is install Yahoo Messenger and it should be done. There are also other ways to do this, but this is quite the easiest one. Hit OK and it should be done.