iGoogle
Productivity has become a bit of a hot topic in my life for some reason this week, so I’m going to share something with you all that has changed my life.
No, really.
It probably has something to do with the onslaught of wedding planning, as well as the capabilities of my iPhone, as well as the inability of my brain to hold on to pertinent information, but I am becoming a sucker for any and all automated ways to keep my life organized.
The number one way I do that these days, is with iGoogle.
Some of you more tech savvy kids out there are going to be nodding with me and going: yeah, duh, Google is the greatest thing in the universe.
But I also know, quite personally, that some of you are going: Waaaaaah? Eye-whatsa-oogle?
iGoogle, is kinda like MyYahoo used to be (if you ever used it). Except for it works.
It’s a customized Google landing page, where you can add little boxes (or widgets) that gather feeds or information from all the various internet sites you may use from day to day. Twitter, Facebook, GMail, Flickr, RSS feeds for your favourite blogs via Google Reader (which you should also be using!), Google Docs, Last FM, MySpace, BBC news - there is a widget for pretty much everything you could come up with.
No more wasting your time, clicking through all your bookmarks, no more missing out on pertinent information. Every update, for everything, on one page, topped off by one of a large number of adorable themes that change based on the time of day (the one I use is called Teahouse, and there’s a matching GMail theme to go with it!).
So, now you know. Use this knowledge, and thank me later.
Mirrored from b e t h m a h e r . c o m.