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What is your customizable home page? Looking for an alternative to iGoogle

Leros

Leros

Lifer
I like the concept of iGoogle in that I can customize the content on my start page, pulling in content from various sites that I find interesting. However, I have to feel that in 2011 there is something better than iGoogle.

What do you guys use?
 
I tried iGoogle and didnt care for it.
I think maybe you should use desktop widgets, anytime you wanna see whats going on, hit the button in the lower right corner of Windows.
 
shortylickens said:
I tried iGoogle and didnt care for it.
I think maybe you should use desktop widgets, anytime you wanna see whats going on, hit the button in the lower right corner of Windows.
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I'm multi-computer and multi-OS, I'd rather keep this sort of stuff on a website.
 
who still uses home pages i just have a google search widget and a weather widget news widget,i..m also running gingerbread os though on a tablet i dont game...dont even run a pc anymore..well besides my laptop but its just to run my turntables/dj equipment...anorher windows xp mce machine thats just a dedicated htpc and fileserver
 
zanejohnson said:
who still uses home pages i just have a google search widget and a weather widget news widget,i..m also running gingerbread os though on a tablet i dont game...dont even run a pc anymore..well besides my laptop but its just to run my turntables/dj equipment...anorher windows xp mce machine thats just a dedicated htpc and fileserver
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I'd like to have various widgets for:
email
weather
basic news
a few sites I frequent

Its nice to have a home page with some content on it staring me in the face. So that I see things like weather, news, etc.
 
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Leros said:
It mean I can use Chrome, Firefox, etc without having to think about what I lose when I make a switch. If its a webpage, it is completely portable.
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You should only use Chrome. And when yur at work, you should work.
Or if you're like me and cant get a job, just spend all your time on the home computer. Chicks love it, seriously.
 
iGoogle to be shut down:

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-igoogle-shutdown-20120703,0,355430.story

Google says iGoogle is soon going the way of Aardvark.

Since Larry Page took the helm as Google chief executive in April 2011, the tech giant has more aggressively closed services to focus on its strengths. Now five more products, including Google Video and iGoogle, are on the chopping block, the company announced Tuesday in a blog post.

Some of these products are getting the axe because they became outdated or redundant, Google said.

Take Google Video, which stopped taking uploads in May 2009. It’s now officially migrating all users’ content to YouTube. Users have until August 20 to “migrate, delete or download” their videos, the company said.

iGoogle, the search giant’s personalized Web portal, launched in 2005. It will retire in November 2013.

iGoogle was created “before anyone could fully imagine the ways that today's web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips,” the company said. “With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for iGoogle has eroded over time, so we’ll be winding it down.”

Three other services Google is winding down are Google Mini, the Symbian Search App and Google Talk Chatback.

The services join a growing pile of relatively obscure products that Google has purged. A list from September of services to be retired included Aardvark, Fast Flip and Google Pack. The company said it has shut down more than 30 products since last fall.
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