If you use Google products a great deal, having an iGoogle page as your homepage makes great sense. If you use Google products less frquently, create an iGoogle homepage and either bookmark it or place it in your bookmarks bar for easy access.
iGoogle lets you create a personalized homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets below. Gadgets come in lots of different forms and provide access to activities and information from all across the web, without ever having to leave your iGoogle page. Here are some things you can do with gadgets:
Translate anything you type in
Store bookmarks for quick access to your favorite sites from any computer
Read headlines from Google News and other top news sources
Check out weather forecasts, stock quotes
way more stuff!
Create your iGoogle homepage
(If you have already created one, review new widgets and/or help a colleague)
Be sure you are logged into your Google account. If iGoogle is not showing in the menus across the top, click on "more" and then "even more" and navigate to iGoogle. If you have not set up an iGoogle page, you will have the opportunity at this point to do so.
Create your iGoogle page. A few "widgets" are automatically placed on your page.
Change your theme by clicking on the link in the upper right corner of your iGoogle page.
Add more widgets by clicking on the "add stuff" link in the upper right corner of your iGoogle page.
Peruse the categories of widgets and consider which ones you might find useful in your professional practice. Use the search box to find widgets, too.
Be sure to add the Google Bookmarks widget if you would like to keep a list of sites you generally visit every day readily available.
Practice deleting and then adding widgets.
Practice seeing your widget in full screen size.
Practice moving your widgets around your page.
Practice expanding and minimizing your widgets (you can get lots more widgets on your homepage by minimizing them!)
Set your iGoogle page as your browser's homepage and/or put your iGoogle page link in your bookmark toolbar
Select 2 widgets you found and be ready to share this info with your colleagues
Some Brentwood favorites:
iphone matters
thousand places to see before you die
Spanish word of day
Quotes for all
freeware downloads
microsoft downloader center
how to of the day
national geographic photos
sudoko
hangman
totally free stuff (cr_p)
best selling children's books
Chuck Norris random fact generator
to do list
beauty tip of the day
iGoogle is your customizable homepage
If you use Google products a great deal, having an iGoogle page as your homepage makes great sense.If you use Google products less frquently, create an iGoogle homepage and either bookmark it or place it in your bookmarks bar for easy access.
iGoogle lets you create a personalized homepage that contains a Google search box at the top, and your choice of any number of gadgets below. Gadgets come in lots of different forms and provide access to activities and information from all across the web, without ever having to leave your iGoogle page. Here are some things you can do with gadgets:
Create your iGoogle homepage
(If you have already created one, review new widgets and/or help a colleague)Be sure you are logged into your Google account. If iGoogle is not showing in the menus across the top, click on "more" and then "even more" and navigate to iGoogle.
If you have not set up an iGoogle page, you will have the opportunity at this point to do so.
Some Brentwood favorites:
iphone matters
thousand places to see before you die
Spanish word of day
Quotes for all
freeware downloads
microsoft downloader center
how to of the day
national geographic photos
sudoko
hangman
totally free stuff (cr_p)
best selling children's books
Chuck Norris random fact generator
to do list
beauty tip of the day