IGoogle

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Revision as of 07:58, 3 May 2010

Main purpose

iGoogle is a customizable homepage

iGoogle allows you to create a mashup homepage. iGoogle homepage contains a Google search box at the top, and below you can put gadgets like video, photo, mail, chat, to-do list and etc.

Gadgets are a piece of reusable code from the same company that you can plug into website or blog. Google offers following gadgets:

   * Google mail 
   * Google News 
   * Weather forecasts
   * Stock quotes
   * Saving and accessing bookmarks
   * Make notes or to-do list
   * Design your own gadget

Useful information

iGoogle page

To start using iGoogle you don't need to create an account, and then your iGoogle page is saved just on the computer that you are using. Signing in with a Google account before you start lets you save your iGoogle page across computers.

Gadgets let you use tools, read info, and play games all that from one web page. Click Add stuff to add gadgets. Once you find a gadget you'd like to add, click Add it now. Then click the Back to iGoogle home link at the upper left side of the page to get back to your page. You can arrange gadgets by dragging and dropping them on the page or you can have more tabs and more gadgets on them (default tab is Home). If necessary, edit your gadgets' settings by clicking the down-arrow in the title bar and choosing Edit settings.

Video tutorial you can see here iGoogle tutorial 

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Easy to use
• Possibility to add different RSS feeds
• Rich database of gadgets
• Supports chat and mail application
• Many different themes

Cons

• Supports only gadgets and not widgets

Reference

• http://www.google.com/ig

• http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/topic.py?topic=1592

• http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=9004