Friday, September 14, 2007

Set your browsers homepage to something other than Google.com

Google.com gives you one thing, search. Many browsers have Google search built in. Today set your browser homepage to something you'll use more. Here are some ideas:

iGoogle
iGoogle lets you customize your Google start page however you want. You can choose from a pile of "widgets" giving you anything from news to feeds to games. Also you can create tabs that let you organize different pages of widgets.

Netvibes

Net vibes is like iGoogle with a twist. You can style your page with the templates they give you, add feeds. They also have "widgets" but not as many as iGoogle. Another neat feature is you can share your pages with other Netvibes users. Tabs let you organize pages however you want.

Your ISP's website
Many ISP's offer a homepage to use. My preference is not to use these as they are prone to use ads and often don't offer much customization.

A web page that you use a lot.
Consider making your feed reader your homepage (if you use a web-based reader). Or set blogger.com, wordpress.com or whatever blogging software you use. Also you can use any web page such as Google Blog search or Digg. The possibilities are endless!

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