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Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« on: March 10, 2009, 12:09:42 pm »

So, as many of you know you can use google.com's customization to serve as a homepage that has everything from weather and news to movie times and daily deals, coupons, etc.

What I'm curious - is how many people actually use iGoogle? 

If there are alot of gamers out there using it, as I do, we are goin to put together a OKgamers widget for your home page!  So, let us know via this 2 week poll! 



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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2009, 12:59:56 am »
I hate the new iGoogle.   But I found a small hack so you can use the Old Style iGoogle.

For those who do not like the tabs on the side for iGoogle and rather have them on top use this link
http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all

and walla.

Ive used iGoogle for years and have seen it evolve.  Im pretty savvy at making iGoogle themes.  they have a awesome deal to use XML to design your own layout.


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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2009, 04:07:43 am »
Yeah, I'm with Fury on that. I have used iGoogle for a while and can do without the tabs.

@Fury- Have you ever noticed that they pretty much made gmail useless from those tabs? Most of the interface seems broken at best, like not being able to find contacts or trying to send and receive properly.

As for a widget it would be nice. Personally the only widgets I pay attention to are: Gmail, News, and Quotes. In fact, while writing this I deleted my calendar to see what else I had and that's really it. So an Okgamers would fit in there nicely.
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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2009, 08:07:18 am »
Yeah, I'm with Fury on that. I have used iGoogle for a while and can do without the tabs.

@Fury- Have you ever noticed that they pretty much made gmail useless from those tabs? Most of the interface seems broken at best, like not being able to find contacts or trying to send and receive properly.

Ris,

Yea Gmail Widget sucks withthe new layout.  Thats the main reason I use the link up top for my home page.  The old Widget fuctions for Gmail still work like if you click on an email it takes you to gmail rather than the peice milled feed page that does not support HTML. Soo Annoying.   

Try that link out up top Ris you will enjoy having the classic GMAIL Widget back.

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2009, 02:50:44 pm »
Much better. With the new layout it was pretty irrelevant to me anyways because I have so few widgets on my page that I can easily look at them all without the aid of the new sidebar.
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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2009, 02:03:58 am »

And what about an OKgamers igoogle theme?



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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2009, 12:09:06 pm »

And what about an OKgamers igoogle theme?



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This my friend would be great with a tourney widget and calendar crossover would set it over the top.
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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #7 on: March 31, 2009, 08:52:23 pm »

And what about an OKgamers igoogle theme?



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This my friend would be great with a tourney widget and calendar crossover would set it over the top.

The Widget would be simple.  Just get the Generic RSS widget (you can have as many as you want) and then link it to the RSS feed of the page your wanting.  I will post some of those Links when i get home.  The Calendar has on and each Forum has one.

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #8 on: March 31, 2009, 10:36:50 pm »
I use iGoogle as my homepage. They have gaming themes made by the copmanies that make them.
They have ones for Mario, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, COD, Guitar Hero, and many more.

http://www.google.com/help/ig/gaming/

I use the one that changes every day.

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #9 on: March 31, 2009, 11:02:51 pm »
I use iGoogle as my homepage. They have gaming themes made by the copmanies that make them.
They have ones for Mario, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, COD, Guitar Hero, and many more.

http://www.google.com/help/ig/gaming/

I use the one that changes every day.

Nice Find!  I wish iGoogle Themes would organize the themes a little better. other than sifting though page after page they should have them all sorted out by some sorta genre or something.

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2009, 03:04:33 am »
Everyone knows real men use a blank page for "home."  Come on, people!
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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2009, 09:38:32 am »
Everyone knows real men use a blank page for "home."  Come on, people!

booo!

lol I have to have a one stop shop for my home page.  I Use the Classic iGoogle.  LOVE IT.  Have all my RSS Feeds, news I like to read and my Email all on one page.

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #12 on: June 08, 2009, 04:45:56 am »
At the Meeting we had today, Rislone Mentioned his iGoogle tab where missing..  He Jinxed me i came home and mine went missing as well.

So after about 2 hours worth of searching, I Now have a Fix :)

http://www.google.com/ig?hl=all

is the New Link to Use :) Go Me!  Google quit messing with my Tabs!

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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #13 on: June 08, 2009, 06:32:43 pm »
Sweet all back to normal, yippee!
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Re: Who uses iGoogle for their homepage, etc?
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2009, 01:58:04 pm »
I didnt realize how sweet google is until I got my G1 Google phone.. my whole life is right there in front of me.. so easy to manage! :D
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