What I can not believe is that it has taken me so long to realise that I can set up my own personalized Google home page which I can view from any computer I am on. I feel a bit better in the knowledge that when I tell my friend about it, they also did not realise. Amazing something that was sitting right in front of me - and I did not see it.
So I googled this morning information on Google Home Page - shame on you Sue - it has been around for 2 years. You have been missing out for 2 years.
With my personalized Google home page I can add whatever Gadgets on my home page - there is too many to choose from. If I run out of space I can add more tabs for more Gadgets (this girl has become gadget crazy). I have a Google Reader gadget that feeds the latest posts directly onto my home page (regretfully this is how I learnt about the shootings at Virginia Tech). Local weather (I should have looked at it rather than the newspaper because I did not wash clothes on Tuesday because the newspaper said rain - Google said fine). News feeds - you name it is there!
And they are coming out with new features for your Google home page all the time - you just have to look more closely at the page. For example - I can access it on my PDA (it is mobile) and they have now just introduced themes. These themes change with the time of the day - mmmm - wonder if they will also show my mood? Read more about themes at internetnews.com.
If you have not set up your own Google personalized home - do it well worth it. Just click on “Personalize this page” at the top of the Google page.
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Having you show me how to create my own personalized Home Page has been great.
It certainly makes life easy especially being able to access it from any computer.
Great article
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