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How to setup Yahoo Mail on Android

Two Ways: Default Mail App: Add a new account -> Select Other (POP/IMAP) -> Enter your email id/password (please enter complete email id, like abc@yahoo.co.in or abc.ymail.com etc.) Click "Manual Setup" Select IMAP, and enter  imap.mail.yahoo.com as the IMAP Server. You can select SSL or None. Click Next - > In next screen, enter smtp.mobile.mail.yahoo.com as the SMTP server. You can select SSL or None Click Next. Enter your account name (as you wish) and click Finish. [Courtesy:  http://www.omgandroid.com/how-to-set-up-yahoo-mail-on-android/  ] YMail App from Yahoo But it does not allow to add more than one Yahoo Mail accounts. Has anybody tried on that yet?? Then comment please... Cheers :)

How to set any mp3 as Alarm Sound in Android Mobiles?

Hi Android-ites! Create a folder "alarms" inside the SD memory card, and paste all the mp3s that you want to be able to set as Alarm tones. And you are raring to go! Go.. Go.. Go... And guess what? Similarly for tones to be used as Notifications and Ringtones, do follow the same process: Notifications - Message tones and Notification tones Ringtones - phone ringtones Alarms - alarm mp3s [Courtesy:  mobisat  at  http://androidforums.com/htc-tattoo/56769-how-set-ringtones-message-tones-alarm-tones.html

How to export contacts, calendar and sms messages from Nokia to HTC Android Mobile

How to export contacts, calendar and sms messages from Nokia to HTC Android Mobile I had a Nokia mobile (don remember the model :P). And I had this very basic problem, when I bought an HTC Wildfire (a touch phone running on Android 2.1) Like anybody else, I too started googling... And finally I stumbled upon the following solution: 1. Transfer Contacts and Calendar from Nokia to HTC phone on Android   a) Install Nokia PC Suite   b) Sync your Nokia data (contacts, messages, calendar) using Nokia PC Suite to your PC.   c) Export your contacts and calendar data from Nokia PC Suite to Outlook or Outlook Express   d) Install HTC Sync on your PC from HTC Support . If your android phone does not have HTC Sync, then       install it from the Android app market.   e) Connect your HTC android mobile to your PC, using the USB connection. Let the HTC Sync desktop       app detect your Android mobile.   f) ...

I dream of an instant, internet on, and all-pluggable device

This early early morning (12:50 AM, Saturday, 13th Feb 2010 IST), I had a dream! A dream necessitated by the unsatisfiable performance and the subsequent urge for a more efficient experience by the best, anywhere, anytime, internet option that we have today! Yes, I am talking of my natural mind not getting satisfied with the experience I have with the USB Modems, that are at present the most useful of the broadband internet (3G included) devices we have in this known world! Be it its mobility, dedicated service, or ease to carry! But still I have a dream! A dream of having a device that would be the pinnacle of all our internet service achievements! A dream of having a device that would not need the user to activate it and connect to internet every time post plugging it into our main surfing machine (computer/laptop/palmtop/phone etc.). Such a device could be activated instantly and connected to the net, through a single button push on the device itself! [Come on brains! Think of sma...