Rest of the Day: Yahoo Makes It Difficult to Leave by Turning Off Email Forwarding
Yahoo recently disabled a feature that would make it easier to log out of your Yahoo email account. You may have planned to forward all incoming messages to a new address, which is common with most email providers. Unfortunately, Yahoo does not offer this feature at this time.
- With no explanation given, other than a notice on the help page stating that the feature is currently disabled while they are improving it, users found that they were unable to enable email forwarding earlier this month . Of course, this came after Yahoo admitted that 500 million accounts had been compromised , and after Reuters reported that Yahoo collaborated with government requests to track all users’ inbound emails . It looks like it’s not time to turn off the general feature for development. If you’ve already enabled it, it still works, otherwise there is no clear alternative. Hopefully this is really a temporary glitch. [AP via TechCrunch ]
- Microsoft is developing a completely new version of its classic Paint application. It has all of the drawing features that have been mainstream over the past several decades, as well as rudimentary new 3D modeling and optimization features for touch devices. A WalkingCat user posted a demo video on Twitter . There is also a leaked beta; it looks like Microsoft intended to unveil the new Paint app at its Oct 26 event . Check out the demo below. [The Verge]
- Do you like to work? Do you like Facebook? What if there was a way to use Facebook purely for work? Good news, my friend. Facebook has just launched its enterprise platform for collaborative work called the Workplace . It’s very similar to the Facebook interface you’re already familiar with, filled with only your peers and TPS reports. Since this is an enterprise product, it is chargeable. [Facebook via The Next Web ]
- Samsung’s new ArtPC Pulse , a cylindrical PC with a built-in “360-degree omnidirectional speaker”, looks great. I think? I would never buy it, but I love that it exists, just like the similar Mac Pro. [Gizmodo]