A new start (home) page

[GeoPatSK Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close GeoPatSK]

I have used Yahoo as my start page for years. It appears that on Wednesday I will be forced over to their new high tech page. If I have to learn something new, this might be a good time to look around at other good start pages.

What is your start (home) page, would you recommend it, and why?

Thanks

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

My isp is Verizon with AOL as my start page. I like it cause it gives me latest news and stock quotes.

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

I've been using igoogle.com (Google's personalized page) for a couple years now. Quite easy to configure and allows "tabs" to organize your items into separate sections. It has a ton of user-contributed items (stock quotes, news, RSS feeds, calendars, games, weather, etc.) that you can add to personalize your page.

Kurt

[Jya-Ning Silver Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close Jya-Ning]

A blank page on my local machine.

When my parent were alive, a local designed page that constain all the chinese links they cared, just in case when they visit.

Maybe with kids growing, some page that contains links I don't mind they visit.

You can open Word and insert all the link you like, and save them as HTML, than in the option, point to that page.

Jya-Ning

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

I've been using igoogle.com (Google's personalized page) for a couple years now. Quite easy to configure and allows "tabs" to organize your items into separate sections. It has a ton of user-contributed items (stock quotes, news, RSS feeds, calendars, games, weather, etc.) that you can add to personalize your page.

Kurt

I checked it and it is my new start page..Thank you

[kapish Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close kapish]

Why limit to 1 home screen when you can have more!

iGoogle is really good. However, my home page is a bit different.
I use Firefox and I have 4 tabs open when I start Firefox. It is pretty slick. I have my Gmail screen, timeshareforums, and a couple of other sites opening automatically.

Here is what I did:
In Firefox, go to Tools | Options
In the Main tab, at the Home Page field, type in the sites seperated by a | and save the settings.

Example:
"www.google.com/ig|www.timeshareforums.com/forums/search.php?do=getnew|www.rci.com|www.techcrunch.co m" (no need for the quotes.)

[PigsDad Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close PigsDad]

I use Firefox and I have 4 tabs open when I start Firefox. It is pretty slick. I have my Gmail screen, timeshareforums, and a couple of other sites opening automatically.

Just an FYI -- you can do that in IE as well. In Internet Options, just specify multiple URLs as your home page.

Kurt

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

I'm agreeing with Kurt as I have used IGoogle for many, many years for my home page & I also agree with Kurt using IE adding more than one URL for your home page, just use enter after each URL.

I don't use Yahoo for my home page but I use Yahoo all the time, guess I'm already using the new format as I have seen nothing "new" on this "High Tech" stuff you speak-of. Been using the "new" stuff for some months now, what am I missing here?

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

I use yahoo as my home page and there has been no changes to it that I have noticed.