Tag: HOME PAGE

It's been a long time coming, but Microsoft is finally testing a new Be what's next homepage. To enable the new look, you need to visit http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/preview/default.aspx. The layout is strongly reminiscent of Windows Phone 7's Metro UI, with not a single rounded corner to be found. There are also some design elements from Internet Explorer 9, such as the 'cut off' back and ...

Recently on Twitter, an Internet Explorer 9 beta user asked how to have his most popular sites displayed whenever he launched the browser. By default, IE9 shows a localized version of MSN.com and you can switch to home page(s) you define. As it turns out, it's a very simple task to swap in your popular sites. Here's an easy way to do this: click the gear icon, then select Internet Options. ...

Why do we assume we only get one homepage? For those willing to explore the potential of their browser, we'd like to show you a little out-of-the-box thinking in the form of Morning Coffee. Though Firefox can set a series of tabs as your "homepage" (select "Use Current Pages" from the preferences menu), this free add-on (shout out to all the free software coders out there) gives you the ability ...

Netvibes has just launched a private beta of its new iteration, Ginger. To those lucky few who were given an invite; now you must know how those kids who found Wonka's Golden Ticket felt. For the rest of us, Netvibes was kind enough to post a run-through of some of their pending and exciting features. Netvibes has been one of the most popular and easy to use personal start pages for a long while ...

Google has unleashed a new Google Talk Gadget for use on your Google personalized homepage. The Talk client -- still only available for PC users -- can be semi-enjoyed by Mac users with this new Gadget implementation that resembles what PC users have been enjoying for quite a while, although it adds a few slick features. The new Google Talk Gadget shares the functionality of the standalone ...

Personalized home page site Pageflakes allows you to customize a start page with flakes (the rest of the world calls them widgets, Microsoft calls them gadgets). Flakes include weather forecasts, email services, calendars, to-do lists, and RSS feeds. Pageflakes has a repository of flakes, and it's about to get a lot bigger. CEO Dan Cohen says the company plans to offer a directory of 10,000 ...

Yep, yet another one. Pageflakes is a personalized home page along the lines of Google Personalized Home, Netvibes, and so on. It's nice and AJAXy as we've come to expect and has a pretty good selection of widgets ("flakes"), including address book, sticky notes, to-do lists, Gmail, headlines, and so on. One nice feature not seen everywhere else is the ability to create multiple pages, ...

Yahoo! is reportedly working on an update to its home page, and randomly-selected users are getting a chance to check it out. Screenshots of the new design that have surfaced on Flickr show a home page with the Yahoo! logo shifted to the left (rather than centered, where it has been since the site's debut in 1995) and slightly less clutter, with Yahoo!'s many services moved to a sidebar on the ...

The torrent of personalized AJAXy homepages continues. This week's contender is ItsAStart.com, a site with poor punctuation but all the standard features. It has RSS feeds, weather, bookmarks, sticky notes, and a clock. It has a Google Search widget but no others--a shame when other services offer unlimited, custom search boxes. Also, the RSS feeds can be expanded to show entire items, which some ...

Between Google's Personalized Homepage, Microsoft's Start.com, NetVibes, Protopage, and Goowy, It's getting hard to keep track of all of these personalized homepage services. Favoor is another such service. It works mostly like the others, but as Martin at Tipmonkies points out the only "widgets" allowed are links, RSS feeds, and sticky notes. What, no custom search boxes? It is, of ...