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In Search of a New Home Page
02-20-2013, 11:26 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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In Search of a New Home Page
I have Yahoo.com as my home page.
IMO, over the years, the strong point is the page is very organized.
But going there today, it looks like Yahoo has joined the crowed (can anyone say USA Today?) of making pages less friendly. The layout, I think feels overcrowded.
What are some nice organized home pages to start at?
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Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
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02-20-2013, 12:20 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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I have a customized "My Yahoo!" home page and haven't seen any changes - at least not recently.
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02-20-2013, 12:23 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: May 2007
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early-retirement.org... That's my homepage.
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02-20-2013, 12:40 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Nov 2007
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cnn.com or your local news station or newspaper? That is what I use on different browsers.
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Retired in 2013 at age 33. Keeping busy reading, blogging, relaxing, gaming, and enjoying the outdoors with my wife and 3 kids (8, 13, and 15).
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02-20-2013, 12:42 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by REWahoo
I have a customized "My Yahoo!" home page and haven't seen any changes - at least not recently.
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They changed the way they report stock prices, got terrible feedback, and reverted to the previous method. No change other than that. It is easily customized.
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02-20-2013, 12:43 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Charleston, SC
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I use an igoogle home page with a nice slideshow of my picasa albums, my email, a few news sources on RSS, and a calendar.
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02-20-2013, 12:50 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Thanks. I might have to mess around with customizing.
I do miss just the Yahoo classic look.
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Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
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02-20-2013, 01:02 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sacramento area
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Yes. It didn't need fixing. That was always an issue at w*rk:
"We are upgrading the system...."
No, you are changing it. Perhaps it is an upgrade, perhaps a downgrade. But it IS a change. Sigh.
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Is there a better free email than yahoo?
02-20-2013, 01:50 PM
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Confused about dryer sheets
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: earth
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Is there a better free email than yahoo?
I like yahoo as a home page but my email keeps getting hacked. Is there a better place for free email that is a bit more secure? I also hate the thought of changing email address.
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02-20-2013, 02:20 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sacramento area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah in SC
I use an igoogle home page
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Just looked at it... sez it will not be abvailable after Nov 1. 2013. Bummer...looked like a nice alternative.
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02-20-2013, 02:30 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AWeinel
Just looked at it... sez it will not be abvailable after Nov 1. 2013. Bummer...looked like a nice alternative.
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They'll be replacing it with something similar, I imagine. And Nov is a long way off.
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02-20-2013, 02:41 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Sacramento area
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I do like the customization. It looks like a real possibility.
I loved the pre-upgrade Yahoo! homepage. It had what I needed. They are getting hammered in the Yahoo! Answers section. Probably 99% opposed to the change (I have not seen the other 1% but I leave it there as SOMEOME must like the new page.)
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02-20-2013, 02:53 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
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My Way
Infinitely customizable. A half hour or so with setup. Have used this for many years, and completely satisfied. No ads, and many basics such as your selection of TV Channels, Newspapers, Websites... Delivers headlines from your choice of newspapers. Easy links.
I also use IGoogle, and Google News, but don't like them as much.
Use Gmail and Chrome Browser. The Chrome Sync works perfectly on all my computers.
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02-20-2013, 03:06 PM
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Recycles dryer sheets
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Location: Sacramento area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imoldernu
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We may have a winner. Looks right.
Many thanks. Now even if the Yahoos do fix it I may not go back.
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02-20-2013, 03:09 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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My PC web homepage is XFinity/ComCast, but I use it as a jumping off point, so it doesn't make much difference to me. Maybe I should try another...
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02-20-2013, 05:02 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Midwest
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www.wunderground.com
... set for my city. That's my Home Page. The day's WX forecast. What else do I need to know?
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02-20-2013, 05:08 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by razztazz
www.wunderground.com
... set for my city. That's my Home Page. The day's WX forecast. What else do I need to know?
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Paul Simon wrote a song that had a lyric "I get the news I need from the weather report".
Hard to beat Paul Simon.
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02-28-2013, 08:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imoldernu
My Way
Infinitely customizable. A half hour or so with setup. Have used this for many years, and completely satisfied. No ads, and many basics such as your selection of TV Channels, Newspapers, Websites... Delivers headlines from your choice of newspapers. Easy links.
I also use IGoogle, and Google News, but don't like them as much.
Use Gmail and Chrome Browser. The Chrome Sync works perfectly on all my computers.
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Thanks for the suggestion of My Way. That has the right approach.
I decided however to just use Google News. I especially like how to add specific news topics of my own.
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Have you ever seen a headstone with these words
"If only I had spent more time at work" ... from "Busy Man" sung by Billy Ray Cyrus
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03-01-2013, 12:05 PM
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I have outlived most of the people I don't like and I am working on the rest.
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03-01-2013, 01:06 PM
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gone traveling
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I've found Yahoo (actually the personalized "My Yahoo") to be very customizable and user friendly. (Still that way today) I've been using it as my home page for a lot of years and haven't noticed many (if any real changes) except it seems even easier to use now than it was 10 years ago
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