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09 August 2006

Find me a new home page →[More:] So. My internet service went down unannounced Saturday. By Tuesday, it magically came back up, with a new home page. I liked the old home page okay, but I'm not crazy about the new one. So... what do you use for your home page?

I am kind of looking for a grab bag kind of site, where I can get some news, some sports, some general interest stuff, a weather report, etc., and also some of my own personal links.

Ideas?

post by: Doohickie at: 16:57 | 16 comments

um... totally lame recommendation I know, but Yahoo *does* give you pretty much all you're looking for...

its ok I'll shoot myself now, no really!

posted by lonefrontranger 09 August | 17:03

I use My Yahoo, which I've personalised for the news, cartoons, sports, weather I like to skim before looking at a real news website like the BBC or Drudge.

posted by essexjan 09 August | 17:06

Yeah, that is definitely a possibility, but before I settled on Blah-hoo, I thought I would see if there is anything snazzier out there.

posted by Doohickie 09 August | 17:06

I do My Yahoo too. And if that's lame, eh, I don't care.

You can also customize a Google home page, but that's just extra work if you've already done Yahoo.

posted by mudpuppie 09 August | 17:07

yahoo here too

posted by getoffmylawn 09 August | 17:10

I use Google's personalised home page and love it to death. But that's just me.

posted by dg 09 August | 17:13

Yeah, I'm a big fan of the Google personalized homepage. Plus, if your workplace blocks gmail, you can use the Google homepage to see if you have new messages and see who they're from and a few words of the subject.

posted by mullacc 09 August | 17:32

I use del.icio.us/recent or sometimes /fun. There's always something new. I'm a sucker for novelty.

posted by lekvar 09 August | 17:35

Google mostly, and sometimes nothing at all (blank)

posted by pieisexactlythree 09 August | 17:50

When I go online all I want is the time.

posted by pointilist 09 August | 18:33

netvibes.

mullacc: if gmail is blocked at work, try mail2web.com and accessing gmail via POP.

posted by blag 09 August | 19:11

about:blank

posted by Wedge 09 August | 20:01

yeah, about:blank. I have about a dozen href links on my desktop (mecha, mefi, flickr, local radar on weather underground, etc) and if I want something immediately I click on one of those, otherwise I just start it up and get the blank page and go from there.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 09 August | 20:36

I decided to go with Google. For now. Thanks for the ideas, folkses.

;- )

posted by Doohickie 09 August | 21:49

about:blank and
findory.com

posted by seanyboy 10 August | 02:41

My FF is set to open several pages in tabs when I start it up: MeFi, Mecha, Gmail, Google news, Netvibes, del.icio.us.

posted by taz 10 August | 03:07

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