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1st April 2007, 05:06 PM #1
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What is a good home page?
Hi folks, I've been using optus as my home page for a while now but they have recently "upgraded" their site so now it takes forever to open because it has all this "entertainment"/ "multimedia" garbage that I dont need and dont want.
OK call me old fashioned...........
when I click on that e symbol I just want to see maybe a few news headlines, a bit of weather...maybe....hell I can look out of the window for that, you know, I don't need the latest film clip from Britney frigging Spears flashing in my face or real time stock market reports.............
I'm more a cuppa tea and a Bex sorta guy....... any suggestions? What are you using?
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1st April 2007, 05:13 PM #2
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My home page is google.com.au mainly because it is quick to load and most of the time (except when I am online here) I am looking for some info on the web anyway.
Have a nice day - Cheers
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1st April 2007, 05:17 PM #3
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Well, I use 'about blank' which displays nothing other than a clean page, and then open (usually) three forum sites before getting to the reason I'm sitting. The weather, date and time are in the task bar, and I want nothing else.
Pop-ups are blocked, also because I prefer to control what I see.
soth
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1st April 2007, 05:27 PM #4
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1st April 2007, 05:27 PM #5
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Blank page it's quicker.
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1st April 2007, 05:36 PM #6
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I use http://www.smh.com.au/
It loads reasonably fast and has the news on it. Doh
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1st April 2007, 06:14 PM #7
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google.com.au
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1st April 2007, 07:20 PM #8
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Your looking at my favorite homepage...
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
My Other Toys
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1st April 2007, 07:55 PM #9
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I would, but I know exactly where you're coming from 'cos I'm in the same boat.
Originally Posted by Bleedin Thumb
Gra got it right... This is my new home page, 'cos in any browsing session it is normally my first port of call anyway.
- Andy Mc
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1st April 2007, 08:34 PM #10
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I use Google as I use Gmail and I can also add any other news or other service to it.
I have ABC News and other bits and pieces as well as my Gmail inbox which updates automatically,
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1st April 2007, 09:41 PM #11
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Make one for yourself. A home page can also be a local HTML document. Have a few news feeds on it and perhaps a java applet pulling weather from somewhere. Whatever you like.
'What the mind of man can conceive, the hand of a toolmaker can achieve.'
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1st April 2007, 09:48 PM #12
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I like to use Reuters as a home page. That way I can at least see if the world blew up before puttering off to here and elsewhere.
Cheers,
Bob
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1st April 2007, 09:59 PM #13
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I use 'blank' as a home page - its easy to re-set if some dodgy site tries to re-direct your home page to their ad-farm.
Yahoo has a 'reasonable' home page facility - you just add or remove junk as YOU want making a semi-custom page.
IE7 is a PITA with blank page tho' - keeps trying to load it from the 'Net for a minute or more where Firefox just goes to blank in a second, just like IE6 used to. Come to think of it, IE7 is also a PITA when you try to shut it down too - seems to take forever
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1st April 2007, 10:00 PM #14
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You can now configure your Google page to have feeds from The Age, SMH etc, plus the weather etc.
Pretty quick to load.Photo Gallery
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1st April 2007, 11:26 PM #15
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I use blank, then come straight here. If I want to know what the weather is doing I look out the window, if I want to know what it's going to do I either consult my old bone fractures
or I go here. If anything really catastrophic and earth shattering has happened (beer strike or the outlawing of woodwork) I'll hear it here soon enough.
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