So it came as something of a shock to read that iGoogle is going away on November 1, 2013. That's only 16 months from now, barely enough time to vet a replacement.
I kid, I kid -- that's more than enough time. The question is, where should you hang your home-page hat? What should be the first thing that appears when you open your browser? I've got three suggestions:
MSN or Yahoo
Like to scan news headlines? Then you can't go wrong with MSN or Yahoo, which bring you the latest stories followed by sections like sports, entertainment, local news, and money.
You don't need an account with either service to take advantage of their portals, though signing up for one nets you an extra email address and, in the case of Yahoo, some customization options for your home page (including what content appears and where).
Personally, I think Yahoo is the better of the two pages, but you'll definitely want to browse both to see which one suits you best.
NetVibes
This old-school Web portal has reinvented itself as a Web-analytics tool for businesses, but it still offers a consumer-friendly custom dashboard where you can monitor all the media that's important to you: news, email, tweets, tasks, status updates, and so on.
Where NetVibes excels is in letting you pick the "apps" (i.e. widgets) you want to include, then organizing them to your liking. For example, you can choose the number of columns you want for your dashboard and how you want them arranged.
There's also a Reader mode that's great if you add a lot of RSS feeds. All told, NetVibes probably comes closest to replacing the look and feel of iGoogle.
Nothing
Nothing? If you're not a news junkie and don't tend to look at RSS feeds and the like, you might just prefer to leave your browser without a traditional home page.
To that end, all the major browsers now have the option of starting you with a "blank" tab, one that doesn't open a particular page but does show thumbnails of your most visited/most popular sites.
You can also automatically open multiple sites in multiple tabs, which is helpful if you like to start each browsing session with, say, PC World, Facebook, and a favorite blog. Just open the tabs you want to reappear, then venture into the settings and choose "use current" for your home page. (The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer all let you load multiple pages at startup.)
Your Pick?
Those are, of course, just three options out of many. If you've found another portal, home-page, or browser-startup option you like better, tell me about it in the comments.
see the original post at PCWorld
It's a shame Google has made the decision to end iGoogle. I am a news junkie and use it multiple times per day to access news sites I'm interested in. Unfortunately there are not as many alternatives as there once were. I have set up 'My Yahoo' which, while not offering as many choices of news sites, does work as long as they don't decide to follow Google's decision to do away with it.
ReplyDeletenice shared, yahoo does have advantages in terms of news
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