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9 Nov 2024 8:16

NZCity Membership

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While you've always been able to personalise NZCity without giving any details at all, customisation is a key feature of NZCity, so for the more advanced features like being able to reload your homepage on other computers, enter our competitions, use our finance portfolio manager and being able to email things on NZCity to friends now requires a free NZCity membership. Its quick and easy to join and as accountable Kiwis we have a comprehensive privacy policy.

To get started, let's find out if you already have, or have ever had, an NZCity membership by checking if your email has been used with NZCity before:

Section Preferences

Customise your NewsLinks headlines, local 3 day weather forecast and horoscope reading here. Remember that the full NewsLinks listings and horoscope readings are still only a click away!
Display General News NewsLinks Display Computing NewsLinks Display Entertainment NewsLinks Display Business NewsLinks Display Sports NewsLinks		You can customise Newslinks to display topics you are interested in. The default is all topics. Display Newslinks Remove articles that I have read

Weather:	Tides/Sunrise Hide hourly weather	Select the area closest to you for your weather forecast, If your City is next to the sea you can also choose to have Tide information and Sunrise/Sunset information

Horoscope:		Set your starsign for your Daily Horoscope reading
Horoscope:	D M Y

Link Preferences

Enter up to 15 of your favourite links below. Any spaces left blank will be filled with a premium New Zealand site chosen at random from our database, and these will change each time you visit your page. Once you have entered your sites or if you change the number of links to display press "update & return" to save your changes.
Displayed Name	Address (URL)	Instructions
		Enter the Names and Addresses (URL) of your favourite Web sites here. An example is show. ShowLinks Display Buttons in MyLinks Instructions Move Link Up Move Link Down Insert a space Delete Link sort alphabetically clear all links If you do make a mistake press refresh in your web browser to start again.

Set your page options here - don't forget that you can also customise your NewsLinks, weather and horoscope readings below.
Display NZCity News Display ISP Links Display NZ Web Directory Display News Top Stories Display Entertainment Headlines Display NewsLinks Headlines Display Search Tools Display Daily Horoscope Display TV Links* Display 3 Day Weather Forecast Display Site Of the Day Display Quote of the Day Display Bible Quote of the Day Display Daily Photo Thumbnail Display Today in NZ's History Display Lotto Results Display NZCity Feedback Form Email Login Preferences Display Xtra and/or Yahoo Email Logon* Display Hotmail Logon* Display Paradise.net Webmail Logon* Display Gmail Logon*		All of the options on the left are available for display directly on your Personal Start Page. Simply select the options you want displayed and they will appear each time you visit.
* Note: Links to external sites do not indicate endorsement by these sites

Set your browsing options here: These general options allow you to open a new window when clicking on links, increase the font size, and the Section control buttons allow you to move sections around on your Start Page.
Use Larger Text where available Open new Window when clicking on a NewsLink Open new Window when clicking to a new site Refresh Page after 30 minutes Display Section Control Buttons Optimise for Speed (removes some features) Use wide right column Show scenic background Fit page to screen width Enable occasional push notifications to this web browser	These options set the way your Browser handles text and links within NZCity. For the ability to move the sections up and down on your Start Page, tick the 'Display Section Control Buttons'

In addition to the NZCity Search Tools you can pick other Search Tools Here
Google Bing NZ News NewsLinks the White Pages NZ Street Names the Yellow Pages Yahoo Dogpile Webcrawler Duck Duck Go Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com Facebook Instagram Twitter NZ Sharemarket Trade Me Ask Jeeves Wolfram\|Alpha Wikipedia Image Search Video Search

This option allows you to select from various colour schemes, modifying the look of NZCity to your favourite colours.
NZCity Minimal Theme NZCity Alpine Blue Theme NZCity Garden Green Theme NZCity Shiny Metal Theme NZCity Plain Purple Theme NZCity Tiger Orange Theme NZCity Original Theme NZCity Crayon Red Theme NZCity Metallic Rust Theme NZCity Tasty Teal Theme NZCity Kiwi Fruit Theme NZCity Sunflower Yellow Theme NZCity Scenic Theme NZCity Xmas Theme NZCity Bubbles Theme NZCity Very Pink Theme	We are always listening to site feedback and have added this feature after numerous requests from our users. Enable Special Event themes (Xmas/Valentines etc)