Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Personalized Google Home - and tip

So I've fallen in love with Google's Personalized Home. (Click on Personalized Home in the upper-right corner of Google's home page. This is where you can add a few RSS feeds, the comics (which I miss since I don't get the printed paper anymore), the weather, and the wonderful Google Calendar, and all sorts of other things to suit your fancy. Since I've always got a browser open, I've always got quick access to it. Nothing new to you vanguardistas, I'm sure.

But there's a lovely shortcut for getting there. As long as you usually look at Personalized Home (and not Classic Home) and you're already signed in with your Google Account, all you have to do is put your cursor in the Google Search box (with nothing in it), which is always waiting for you at the top of your browser window, and click Enter. Poof! You're there.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

OR just set it as your home page...

Liz Castro said...

Except I hate anything on my home page. I'm a fan of blank home pages because I'm always opening up a new page so as to leave the other one undisturbed, and I don't want to have to wait while anything loads. But that's just me.

kostya said...

I love iGoogle (as it is now known). I have it open in my background at work. I can have it monitor my GMail account, have a little daily scedual in case I forget, see my weather, and have a dictionary all a click away. I also love the tabs to reduce clutter.

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