I just bought a new macbook and am still learning it.
1) I use Yahoo mail. on a pc when I start entering a name from my address book or a nickname the name would autofill. ON the mac it does not which is really annoying. Is there a setting i can change on Safari.
2) Is there an outlook equivalent i can use for the mac which can be synched up with Yahoo via yahoo sync?
Thanks
1) Over time, the autofill function on your old machine probably cached the addresses that you had commonly used while using Yahoo mail. As previously noted, you can also have Safari auto-fill those addresses, but it will need to "learn" those addresses over time. Either way, I'd strongly suggest you run Firefox instead of Safari - in my experience, it's a better all-around browser. In the meantime, you should check to make sure that Safari is set to auto-fill forms by going into preferences (Safari menu -> Preferences -> Autofill).
2) I believe Yahoo mail has a premium service that allows you to use a POP3 mail client to download your mail directly to Outlook. You can set Mail to do this as well, but the set up procedure would be different (I can't tell you how to do so, since I don't subscribe to the premium version). If you'd rather not pay for this feature, you can also use a program called "FreePOPs" which will allow you to sync any POP3 mail client with a number of different webmail services, including Yahoo mail. Check it out at
http://www.freepops.org.
Once you install it, you simply need to set up a new POP3 mail account in Mail and then set the port to 2000 instead of the default of 110. This is done by going to Mail menu -> Preferences -> click + to add an account, 127.0.0.1 as server address, put your <username>@yahoo.com as the username and Yahoo Mail password. Then, go into the new account you just setup, go to Advanced and set port to 2000. Now, Mail will check your Yahoo mail account for new messages.