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After You Add a Yahoo! Application
Once you add an app to My Yahoo!, the controls for it appear on the Options menu. App-specific operations include:
- Changing the app’s settings, including update settings.
- Switching between the app’s small and full views.
- Sharing the app.
- Getting more information about the app, including developer information.
- Refreshing the app’s display.
- Removing the app.
Note: Not all operations may be available for all apps. For example, not all apps permit sharing.
Here’s How
To switch between small and full app views:
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To go from the small view of an app on your My Yahoo! tab to the app’s full view in My Apps, select Large View from the app’s Options menu.
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To return from the app’s full view back to the small view in My Yahoo!, select Back to My Yahoo! from the app’s Options menu.
To change an app’s notification settings:
Many apps generate updates and broadcast them to your connections, which lets your friends see which apps you’re using and shows you what cool stuff they’re spending their time on. You can control which updates are sent and who they are sent to.
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Click Settings on the app’s Options menu.
The Settings pane opens.
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To stop this app from broadcasting updates to your connections, click the Stop broadcasting button.
All updates from this app are turned off, and the button changes to a Start broadcasting button.
Note: Other kinds of updates, such as those generated by activities on your profile on Yahoo!, aren’t affected by this button.
You can turn broadcasts back on at any time by clicking the Start broadcasting button.
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To stop the current app from sending you email messages, click the Stop sending messages button.
The button changes to a Start sending messages button, and you won’t receive any more notification emails from the app.
You can turn messages back on at any time by clicking the Start sending messages button.
Note: The Stop sending messages and Start sending messages buttons affect only the behavior of the current app. To stop receiving messages from all apps, go to each app individually and change its setting.
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Close the Settings pane by clicking the Close link in its top right corner.
What’s Next
If you don’t want to use an app any more, you can remove it.
Words to Know
- Connection: a person you spend significant time online with and with whom you want to share personal information. Connections have privileged access to each others’ profiles.
- Content: information in My Yahoo! that changes on a regular basis, such as news items, sporting events, and the weather.
- Full view: the view of a Yahoo! Application that gives you access to all its features, usually on a separate webpage.
- My Apps: the webpage (http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/apps) that collects together all the Yahoo! Applications (apps) you’ve added for your personal use.
- Profile: a public web page associated with your Yahoo! ID where you can share personal information with others. You and each of your connections have a profile that others can view.
- Small view: the view of a Yahoo! Application that you see on a My Yahoo! tab. It typically includes only a subset of the information and features displayed in the full app view.
- Yahoo! Updates: mini-stories about online activities that you can share with your friends and family.