Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

What do you use for a start page?

I thought about doing this as a poll, but didn't want to miss any good portal sites or unnecessarily limit the discussion.

I used myCNN as a start page for almost two years until they discontinued the service last spring. It was a terrible shame; they offered customizable news which was updated frequently, the usual cusomized weather and stock quotes...it had a very "Wall Street Journal" look to it...very crisp and clean.

I swtiched to myYahoo, which I find almost trashy looking; the news gets stale, the design is poor, and I don't use Yahoo Messenger or any other Yahoo components to make it worth my while.

I would very much like to change. MSN seems much the same as Yahoo, and Google is just a search engine, not what I consider to be a good "Start Page".

What do others use for a Start Page? I want regional and international headline, sports, weather, stocks all in a clean professional looking page...

Registered: Feb 2001
Location:
Posts: 447

Two words: About: Blank

Although I may be changing to Time.com now that I realized I can access up to a year's worth of old articles with a subscription.

Registered: Oct 2000
Location:
Posts: 443

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Originally posted by Thunderbird291
Two words: about : Blank

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

You mean nobody's got their home page set to VisorCentral? Shame on you!

Actually, I agree with the about: blank. I hardly ever start my browser directly. I have a bunch of favorite shortcuts on the desktop and utilize the Favorites menu. On the rare occasions that I start IE from its default icon, it comes up with the blank page and I go from there.

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God bless America, my home sweet home...

Registered: May 2000
Location: St. Paul, MN
Posts: 1429

slashdot.org
I than go form there to pic, than to vc, than to pdabuzz, than to fark, than bbspot, plastic, and than to the VC boards. I do this every day in teh exact same order. sigh.. am I crazy or what?

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Registered: Aug 2001
Location:
Posts: 383

C|Net

Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Aberdeen, SD
Posts: 2531

damnit. I thought I was one of only a few with the about :blank thing. I've turned mainstream.

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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Holly Springs, NC
Posts: 124

www.wral.com

My local TV station... one of the best sites for a local television station in the world.

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Posts: 85

www.thedaily.com/bikini.html

It's a nice portal with a different bikini-clad girl every day. You can also select other themes like pets or nature pics also.

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RadarGreg

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
Posts: 1435

I need my blank-y.
Since I tend to quit the browser when I don't need it, having a specific start page wastes my time. I briefly used one when I went online years ago, but that's all.

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: El Segundo,CA
Posts: 374

I'll be the first to vote for MyYahoo! It's got everything, portfolios, bookmarks, news, sports, weather, photos, calendar, directions, search, best fares, company news, calculator, Yahoo clubs, TV listings, address book, currency converter, auto tracking and comics. You can sync with a PDA and its free!
Of course, I have another window open to VC, discussion usually, both here and at work.

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Registered: Mar 2000
Location: McLean, VA USA
Posts: 216

I also have mine set to about:blank. There are only a few sites that I visit everyday. Visor Central, TheRegister, Fark and WashingtonPost are the only ones and I have shortcuts to them on my desktop. When I just start up my browser, I want a blank page because I'm always going to a different place.

I too, thought that I was in the minority since no one else that I know does this.

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What the Heck! It's what I want!

Registered: Aug 2001
Location:
Posts: 383

if you like blue better than white use

<A HREF=about:mozilla>about:mozilla</A>

in MSIE its a blue page, in Mozilla its an easter egg thingy...

Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Connecticut USA
Posts: 2682

If you can't find a decent start page out on the web, and you don't like the ugliness of about:blank, you can always create your own local HTML page and use it as your start page. It can be as simple as a blank page (so you're not staring at the about:blank boilerplate), or can be as fancy as you want it to be. Many applications today can create HTML files (i.e. MS Office) so there's no reason not to try.

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Registered: Nov 1999
Location: New York, New York
Posts: 560

quote:

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Originally posted by MarkEagle
You mean nobody's got their home page set to VisorCentral? Shame on you!

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Happy Treo 600 user, so far. Thanx Cingular for having an unlocked phone.

My Treo 600 is my phone, my PDA, my watch, and my MP3 player. Oh yeah, I take a picture once in a while with it. Convergence is such a great thing.

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

http://onestop.umn.edu

Yep, the University of Minnesota, baby

Hey, them gophers may be struggling in nearly every sport to break into the big leagues, and they may be cheating, but the university has this English TA that is totally HOT and is clearly the SMARTEST MAN ALIVE.

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

I'm very boring. My internet provider (quixnet) automatically sets you up on your "own" page when you dial up. I've been using them for almost five years and I've never customized it. I just download my email and immediately go to VC or LinuxApps or AudreyHacking. I get all my news from my email subscriptions like Wired, etc.

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Registered: Dec 1999
Location: "Children are a gift from God, they are a reward"
Posts: 1049

"Hey, them gophers may be struggling in nearly every sport to break into the big leagues, and they may be cheating, but the university has this English TA that is totally HOT and is clearly the SMARTEST MAN ALIVE. "

Oh, but for the vanity of man....

You're mistaken anyway. He's not hot, you're thinking of his monkey.

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 415

blankety blank blank blank.

no portals for me! im the reason the tech bubble folded!

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Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Them Twin Cities
Posts: 1758

quote:

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Originally posted by BobbyMike
[I]You're mistaken anyway. He's not hot, you're thinking of his monkey.

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