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Looknsee Photography

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Portland, Oregon, US

Got me a new puter (Windows 10), and its default browser is MSN.  MSN is not too bad for a home page:

Good points:
...  I like that there are "live tiles", flashing images & news stories.
...  I like that there is a lot of tiles.

Bad points:
...  Extremely limited customization.
...  Too many "Microsoft centric" items popping up.

I've been using Protopage, which is static but nice.  What I would want:
...  Ability to track weather in 4-5 cities,
...  Ability to track a half dozen stocks.
...  Ability to select / configure what kind of stories I want to show up.
...  Ability to avoid ads (I use AdBlock)

Any suggestions?

Feb 24 16 12:33 pm Link

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Model Sarah

Posts: 40987

Columbus, Ohio, US

Eh I use Google for a homepage. I use apps on my phone for weather and news. Yahoo used to be good for what you're looking for. Now it's terrible.

Feb 24 16 12:53 pm Link

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salvatori.

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Amundsen-Scott - permanent station of the US, Unclaimed Sector, Antarctica

Mutts.com

Whenever I fire up my computer, I get a laugh smile

Feb 24 16 12:58 pm Link

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Michael Bots

Posts: 8020

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Write your own (which can reside on the local hard drive) for the custom links

Drop something like one of the  www.thedailyhomepages.com/  pages into a frame for more links

Feb 25 16 07:59 am Link

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Mark Salo

Posts: 11726

Olney, Maryland, US

I use my own web site as my home page.  My home page is my home page. LOL  I have a menu page of links that I could use as my home page.

But most of my time is spent on MM and a news site.

Feb 25 16 08:40 am Link

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GRMACK

Posts: 5436

Bakersfield, California, US

I use Excite.com as my homepage.  Has about 18 weather locations I've selected and a bunch of forums loaded too.  Pretty customizable.

Not a fan of Yahoo! or Google at all.  Too much data mining and ads and my att.net email (My slow-poke DSL) uses Yahoo! for their email since AT&T got out of their own sever biz along with Worldnet for websites, Newsnet, etc.  Yahoo! seems bent on pushing a ton of spam on me and I think they allow it unless you pay for an upgraded pro service.  I get about 20 crap emails on "You got money, millions. Nigerian stuff. Etc.) whereas with Excite I don't see it or very few with my email there (i.e. Excite maybe 1 a week, against about 20 a day in Yahoo!).

Feb 25 16 09:12 am Link

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Jerry Nemeth

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Dearborn, Michigan, US

My home page is Aol.com

Feb 26 16 08:29 am Link

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Motordrive Photography

Posts: 7087

Lodi, California, US

Jerry Nemeth wrote:
My home page is Aol.com

cool borat your homepage is a time machine?

Feb 26 16 09:52 am Link

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Roy Hubbard

Posts: 3199

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US

last opened tabs or a blank page

Feb 26 16 12:12 pm Link

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Looknsee Photography

Posts: 26342

Portland, Oregon, US

Roy Hubbard wrote:
last opened tabs or a blank page

Not to pick on you in particular, but...
...  Where do you gather the top news stories?
...  Where do you get weather reports for your favorite 4-6 cities?
...  Where go you get news stories on...
     ---  your favorite sports teams?
     ---  your favorite celebrities?
     ---  tech news?
     ---  etc.
...  Where do you go for a joke of the day?
...  Where do you go for local movie start times?
...  Where do you go to find your favorite links?

And so forth?  I like a busy home page.

Feb 26 16 12:28 pm Link

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Roy Hubbard

Posts: 3199

East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US

Looknsee Photography wrote:

Not to pick on you in particular, but...
...  Where do you gather the top news stories?
...  Where do you get weather reports for your favorite 4-6 cities?
...  Where go you get news stories on...
     ---  your favorite sports teams?
     ---  your favorite celebrities?
     ---  tech news?
     ---  etc.
...  Where do you go for a joke of the day?
...  Where do you go for local movie start times?
...  Where do you go to find your favorite links?

And so forth?  I like a busy home page.

I guess mine probably isn't the best example for your purposes, but here goes.

Where do you gather the top news stories?

I get wind of most news via social media. I don't feel that I miss out on much (at all), and I don't follow anyone that annoys me.

Where do you get weather reports for your favorite 4-6 cities?

I wrote a nifty perl script that lives on my mailserver. If I want a news report I just send an email to a special address with a comma separated list of zip codes and it replies with the forecast. I'm usually too lazy even for that these days. If I start typing my zip code into my browser, weather.com is always the first result.

Where go you get news stories on...
     ---  your favorite sports teams?
     ---  your favorite celebrities?
     ---  tech news?
     ---  etc.

I follow all the organizations I care about on social media, they're all generally very on the ball about keeping their pages updated.

Where do you go for a joke of the day?

The mirror -_-

Where do you go for local movie start times?

Mooo vee? Vat is this?

Where do you go to find your favorite links?

I use a Firefox extension called vimperator. It hacks up the browser interface and makes everything ridiculously easy and intuitive to anyone that finds the vi text editor easy and intuitive >_<

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Feb 28 16 07:50 pm Link

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