is a colorful, information-packed default start-up page for your Web browser that installs on your hard drive.
The page is colorful, graphical, and extremely easy to use. Upon loading, it provides a greeting, an amusing message of the moment, a time check from the USNO atomic clock, and a news ticker with headlines from six to ten major Internet news services. A single click on any headline takes you to the complete news story, and links to four additional news sites are included.
Best Start Page also has fifteen carefully-selected links to popular, useful and interesting sites featuring sports, TV, entertainment, finance, health, reference, computer news and software, government resources, humor, and commentary, as well as a flashing red button that links you to one of 60 random sites. The page also provides direct access to: current weather conditions and forecasts for any U.S. locale; twelve of the most popular general purpose search engines; twelve specialty search engines (with home page links); 29 links to name, address, zip, phone, and e-mail directories plus online maps; dozens of links to small games, puzzles and other mind-candy; and keyword searches at the Earth's Biggest Bookstore.
The Best Start Page runs on
Windows 95/98/Me
and is available under the
Shareware
license
— the installer is 176 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Bookmarking Tools.
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