QotD: My Daily Dose
What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.
In an effort to streamline my life and get more things done in less time which in turn allows me more time for the pleasant things and less time spent dealing with the daily grind, I pretty much only go to a few sites, as I have most of them consolidated under one roof. I swear by Netvibes as my start page, which is where I go several times a day, as I have everything I want there, for the most part. Weather, multiple emails, news, blogs and rss, my del.icio.us bookmarks, websites I like embedded, entertainment, torrents, travel, shopping, etc. all tabbed out nicely. I still do visit Google Reader (although I don't have to) when I'm really digging through all my RSS like a madwoman. In short, I visit tons of sites, from gtd, tech, entertainment, shopping, news, scrapbooking, music related, and more, but having all these under one roof means I really only go to a few sites a day.
Another site I daily navigate to is my personal hobby website for Generation 80s [alternative] Retro Radio to say "hi" to my listeners via the Shoutbox during the day and to my administration panel at Live365 to change or program my playlists daily. Of course, I come here, to Vox. Did you know you can set groups of tabs to open up simultaneously in Firefox, so all you have to do is click on the description on your links bar or in your bookmarks and all those pages you like daily will open? Even better is the Firefox extension Morning Coffee which gives you the ability to manage and organize regularly visited websites by day and open them up simultaneously by integrating it with your daily routine. Now you can have your favorite AM sites open when you come down for coffee, work related sites you must read open at 11am, or the news and comics waiting for you at night. If it could only make the coffee, I'd be golden.
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I might have a look at netvibes, but I guess it's similar to (the renamed) iGoogle (I don't like that name). Which I never really use.
I swear by Google Reader too. I don't rely on Netvibes as heavily for my RSS feeds because at time of heavy server usage and module format, it's just easier to plow through sites on GR, but Netvibes is far more slim and functional than Google Start Page or now iGoogle, which I can't stand. Too much worthless fluff, not enough functionality or customization. It's funny how Google Reader and GMail with Better Gmail or other extensions can be so superior, yet iGoogle can seem so insufficient, especially when they are theoretically meant to integrate. Oh well. Anyway, I do keep weather a mail notifier in my browser bar, so if I want, I can skip Netvibes and go straight to GR and not be too much worse for wear. My browser opens to blank and then I take it from there.