RogueGypsy

I use iGoogle, which is actually 12 pages in 1. It gives me everything I want to know to start my day and many things I might like to know just a click away.

There are thousands of feeds and services that can be added to any of the 12 pages. I'm sure there are many more features I don't use to their fullest, but what I use works great for me.

Home, local, news, humor, music, games, cooking, business, art, technology, politics and entertainment. Each have a page that you can populate with whatever floats your boat. It loads fast and I'm not hindered by some big ass flash advertisement with dancing elves and rabid reindeer prancing across my screen while I'm trying to read the news.

How 'bout you? Whatcha' usin'?

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Methods, application and intensity of application vary by the individual. All legal wavers must be signed before 'treatment' begins. Self 'Medicating' is not recommend. However, if necessary, it is best to have an 'assistant' or 'soft landing zone' nearby. Any and all legal issues resulting from improperly applied techniques should be forwarded to: Dewy, Cheatum & Howe, Intercourse, PA 17534. Attn: Anonymous.

uncle phil

google news...

i can do anything and go anywhere from there...

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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.

Cynthetiq

blank.

I like to control my experience and where I start off/launch from.

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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

amonkie

Gmail. When I'm online that's usually the reason I opened the browser. Anything else, I hop to igoogle or browse through my Google Reader and bookmarks.

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Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

LordEden

Google. It's usually the first page I open anyway.

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Vice-President of the CinnamonGirl Fan Club - The Meat of the Zombiesquirrel and CinnamonGirl Sandwich

spindles

I have my own customised 'links' page with a *lot* of links I use often. This is my start page.

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who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?

LaLa1

Bing, because I like to see what picture they have up that day. I usually end up clicking on the links to the pictures and learning something new about a place or an animal I hadn't known before. I like the randomness of it.

snowy

My browser is set to open "speed dial". Various favorite sites are on my "speed dial" such as Gmail, TFP, Facebook, and the NYTimes.

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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Meditrina

I use iGoogle. It has all my favorite websites bookmarked so I can access them from any computer I use. I also have gmail, calendar, Google reader and the weather on it.

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"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

StanT

Local weather with radar.

Craven Morehead

ISP's home page so I can check email through their web interface if I wish rather than Outlook.

Fremen

Google here, as well.
Recently changed it from a browser-based mmo that shut down.

The why is because it's still the best search engine bar none.

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Google

FuriousAvatar

This is only further proof that Google is slowly taking over the world.

And yeah, it's my homepage too, of course.

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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
-Pope John XXIII

Daniel_

+1

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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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Redlemon

Google Chromium saves the pages that I had open when I close it, so I don't have any need for a home page. Firefox did that as well.

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I can't read your signature. Sorry.

The_Jazz

Yahoo at home, my company's web page here. At the last job, though, it went from Drudge Report to the Chicago Tribune to United Airlines over a few years. Basically, the progression was very utilitarian.

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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

Xazy

I use a my.yahoo.com, I like it, easy to read and see most of the news and information I use and get a quick glance whenever I open the browser. I tried Igoogle, it has a lot more flexibility but I do not find it as easy to see all.

I do plan on retrying Igoogle again it has been over a year since I last tried it as my home page.

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Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.

PonyPotato

UC.edu. I changed it over the summer when I started attending UC, as OSU.edu had been my homepage for YEARS. I'm going to go back to osu.edu now, actually..

I prefer the academic home page because of the interesting "hey, look at this cool research!" links. It also reminds me of any registration, application, etc. I need to do in the near future..

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"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Orchrist

/agree with Cynth. I use a blank screen, don't have to worry about waiting for a page to load either which just slows you down!

freeload

I start with the speed-dial in Opera. Then I usually load page 1-6 in separate tabs to quickly browse three photo sites, TFP and local/national news.

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The future ain't what it used to be.

AquaFox

regular google.com or igoogle. regular google loads rather fast which is great, lets me type in where I want to go... it's almost as good as having a blank page in terms of loading time. iGoogle for when at work or when dealing with emails.

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inBOIL

Google. It loads fast and it's frequently the first page I use anyway.

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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.

Fotzlid

Gmail. I like reading my mail first.

Willravel

This.

RogueGypsy

That's freakin' fantastic.

I'm gonna change the home page of every computer I sit down at to that, except mine. That's awesome.

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Methods, application and intensity of application vary by the individual. All legal wavers must be signed before 'treatment' begins. Self 'Medicating' is not recommend. However, if necessary, it is best to have an 'assistant' or 'soft landing zone' nearby. Any and all legal issues resulting from improperly applied techniques should be forwarded to: Dewy, Cheatum & Howe, Intercourse, PA 17534. Attn: Anonymous.

SecretMethod70

I'm also a Speed Dial user. I used to use iGoogle until I found out about Speed Dial. It's even available for Firefox AND Chrome!

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Le temps détruit tout

"Musicians are the carriers and communicators of spirit in the most immediate sense." - Kurt Elling

EventHorizon

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

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Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.