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How to Customize Your Google Homepage With a GIF Background

Fancy personalizing your Google homepage with your favorite GIF? It is actually possible to do this, and here, we'll show you how.

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Why Kadaza Should Be Your New Home Page

Kadaza is a home page and web portal that brings you the best of the internet.

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How to Make Links to Your Homepage Look Great on Social Media

Here's how to control what people see when you link to your homepage across social media.

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The New My Yahoo Gets A New Design To Emerge As An iGoogle Alternative

Yahoo isn't pulling any stops in its efforts to personalize the user experience for you. In the latest move, it has dusted off My Yahoo and given the personal start page a fresh look.

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6 Best Netvibes Widgets for Bloggers and Journalists

The growing volume of widgets and tools that are available on Netvibes makes it a useful tool for all sorts of great things. One of the uses that I've discovered myself is developing Netvibes into a sort of a dashboard that lets you monitor newswires, quickly keep track of interesting story notes or ideas, research those ideas, and keep track of all of your information for increased productivity while you're blogging or writing your articles.

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4 Websites To Create Personalized "Speed Dial" Homepages

If you use an obscure browser that doesn’t show any support for Speed Dial, there’s good news for you: the same feature can easily be replicated by a large number of web services. All you need to do is configure your page and set it as your browser’s homepage, and it’s as good as any add-on for the same feature. Some do it better than others.

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Reader Isn't The Only One - Alternatives For 3 Dead Google Services

Over its long course serving us as the overlord of the Internet, Google has had some good ideas and some bad ideas. However, Google has pushed out some pretty interesting and obscure projects on the side. Google PowerMeter, for example, was a way to keep tabs on how much energy you're using in your home from a web interface. Never heard of it? You're probably part of the great majority.

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Get An Awesome New Tab Page For Google Chrome

Awesome New Tab Page (aNTP) is a Google Chrome add-on that turns the new tab page (NTP) into a metro-like browser home screen. In addition to icons that lead to your favorite websites, this add-on offers dynamic widgets that instantly update you on what's going on. Your Awesome New Tab Page is fully customizable, meaning you can change the content, positioning, size, color, and type of content.

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Great Personalized Start Pages: 6 Alternatives To iGoogle

If you’ve not yet heard, Google plans to pull the plug on iGoogle in November 2013 in addition to a few other services like Google Video and Google Mini. Though the company have yet to announce a viable alternative for those who still use the service, comparable start pages do exist. The best replacement depends entirely on how you use the service.

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Bring Some Life Into Your Browser With These 5 Brilliant Start-Page Extensions [Chrome]

Chrome’s default start page has nothing to be ashamed of. With its neat appearance and quick access to apps, most visited pages and recently closed tabs, it’s fast becoming a great option for a default start page, which doesn’t require any additional installation. However, Chrome’s start page is not perfect for everyone, and other great options do exist out there in the form of browser extensions.

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Customize Your Browser's Start Page To Look Like The Windows 8 Theme

If you like the Windows 8 new user interface design, you can implement that look on your browser's start page with the help of Eight. It's a start page theme which will give you more than just eye candy. Eight allows you to customize its elements to suit your needs. The last update of Eight is compatible with Firefox 4.0.1, Chrome 12, Opera 11.11, and Internet Explorer 8.

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Turn Your Android Phone Into a Shared Internet Launching Point With PAW

One of the things I've been toying with is making portable web servers. What if I could set up a mobile web server on my phone, and then share out any web content that I have? What if I could carry around a customized start page that I could use to access important weblinks on the network? The good news is that using two tools - the PAW Mobile Web Server, and the SPGM - this is all possible.

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