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im going to hold my tongue

Deadman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:46:43 +0000

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im going to hold my tongue regarding the yahoo/msft deal, but i will also rec the my yahoo route. i love it, and can't believe anyone uses the yahoo home page as their main starting point (altho i was intrigued by the beta)

Safari has a similar

Nebton — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:15:09 +0000

In reply to Use Google Chrome as your

Safari has a similar feature.

Personally, I might just have to change mine to my #5 above. Who knew there was so much Genghis-related news?

I'm a news junkie, so Google

acanuck — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:16:42 +0000

In reply to Yahoo, Microsoft, and Home Page Upgrades: Smalls Steps to Oblivion

I'm a news junkie, so Google News (Canada Edition) is my long-time home page. The top international stories are the same, but the Sports section, for example, will emphasize hockey and the CFL. I've personalized it further by designating Montreal under Local News. I could add RSS feeds, but haven't got around to that yet. Until persuaded otherwise, it's Google News for me.

Use Google Chrome as your

Orlando — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:52:45 +0000

In reply to Yahoo, Microsoft, and Home Page Upgrades: Smalls Steps to Oblivion

Use Google Chrome as your browser. That way, your home page is a page with the icons of the pages you visit most frequently. Fire it up and click on what page your want. Of course, Dagblog should probably be your home page.

For what it's worth, I was

Nebton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:23 +0000

In reply to Ha

For what it's worth, I was serious about that last one. My "home page" is set to about:blank. That way, Firefox loads very quickly, and then I either click on a bookmark or type something into my Google search bar.

Ha

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:13:15 +0000

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I just took another look at

Michael Wolraich — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:12:09 +0000

In reply to Call me crazy (and not to be

I just took another look at My Yahoo. It's prettier than it used to be, much nicer than iGoogle, what with all the monotonous blue boxes. Maybe I'll give it a try.

Call me crazy (and not to be

Brett — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:57:49 +0000

In reply to Yahoo, Microsoft, and Home Page Upgrades: Smalls Steps to Oblivion

Call me crazy (and not to be a corporate shill), but I've used my.yahoo.com forever and it seems to do everyting you want without any of the problems of the non-"my" version of their homepage. It's got tabbed pages so you can put different feeds on different pages, has tons of different built-in aggregators and cute boxes, and you can add your own RSS feeds.

Here are a list of possible

Nebton — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:52:58 +0000

In reply to Yahoo, Microsoft, and Home Page Upgrades: Smalls Steps to Oblivion

Here are a list of possible options:

The obvious.
The sickening.
The search.
The "news". (See my previous discussion on that.)
Highly specialized news.
What I use in Firefox - about:blank