iGoogle

March 26 finally came, and it was gone pretty darn quick! The good news… my fiancee liked the LV bag I gave her! Yippeeee! The bad news… I didn’t win the lotto! Surprise surprise! There’s another one on Sunday though, and I’m not giving up on 216 million pesos! It was a nice 3 day break for me, but it’s back to work again on Monday. In any case, I found something pretty nifty a few minutes ago…

If you’re one of those people who have Google as your default homepage, you must be sick and tired of how that page looks like every single day. To give Google credit though, the word changes in design depending on the occasion for the day or the month But if you would prefer a better looking page that has personalized settings for you based on the content you want, then iGoogle is for you.

I’m not sure how new or how old this is, but today is the first time I have seen it. What’s great about it is that you have a ton of content to choose from, and you can personalize it based on RSS (Really Simple Syndication). RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content, such as the news blurbs you see here. As I live in the Philippines, I’ve selected the top newspapers to feed me the headlines everyday. You can also add a few games, like I did on the right side like a daily crossword puzzle. You can even theme your Google page to suit your taste like the Solar System theme I used, and put on the usual sticky notes for things to do and see how the weather forecast is everyday. So pretty much a fairly simple application, but much cooler because you drive the content you want every time you open your browser.

This beats that white classic Google page anyday.

~ by melancholiac on March 29, 2008.