Whats on your iGoogle?

Nalz

Mine has Skysports football updates, currency converter, translator and weather updates

JIZZLORD

Weather, gmail, wired news, bbc technology, breakingnews.ie, reuters oddly enough, Rte news, google news.

Xavi6

Weather for Perth, Dublin and Chicago, gmail, latest sports and music headlines, calendar, map search. Must add a currency converter now.

GLaDOS

Wiki search, Bush Quote generator , Quote of the day, soduko

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Currency converter, Gmail, weather in Dublin, Stockholm and Berlin, White Ninja comic, Dilbert, BBC Technology, loads of news, Super Monkey Poop Fight game.
Plus a few others...

enda1

For some reason I typed in 11811 as my zip code for the weather forecast and it wont go away!!

Shooooo!!

See, nothing.....

biko

I don't use it - so Atari Jaguar

Wertz

My what now?

Mint Sauce

igoogle??

ibh

What do people mean by having Gmail on it?? Does it tell you if you have mail or is it just a shortcut??
I have RTE News and Sport and BBC News and Sport and a quote generator and a Wiki box and a calender which is surprisingly useful.

leninbenjamin

iGoogle is evil. just another way for them to gather their information for those targeted ads and expand their database entry for you. I don't and wouldn't use it... at least until the long run intentions for the use of the information is clear....

Jesus Wept

~Great thread, will be adding stuff that sounds good.

Various news, weather, calendar....

But best...

Sticky Note ftw.

No longer need scraps of paper with things scribbled on them that I need to do.

cee_jay

I have calendar, boards.ie, Wikipedia search bar, gmail, weather for Aberdeen, Limerick & Murcia, horoscope and currency converter

Not that I ever use any of them of course - except for something on the boards feed catching my eye that i go click on it and lose many hours of my working day.

kevmy

BBC news, BBC sport, RTE News, RTE sport, breakingnews.ie, calender, quote of the day and optical illusions

Da Funky Munky

What the hell is an iGoogle and why should I buy one?

Wertz

Having looked up what iGoogle is (I googled it ), it seems that FF faves bar with it's RSS feeds, a multitude of permanently open tabs and some carefully selected extensions perform the exact same task. Far too much to list here...

AlmightyCushion

ibh wrote: »

What do people mean by having Gmail on it?? Does it tell you if you have mail or is it just a shortcut??
I have RTE News and Sport and BBC News and Sport and a quote generator and a Wiki box and a calender which is surprisingly useful.

It shows your 5 newest emails.

Mr E

I used to use iG until I discovered netvibes (www.netvibes.com) - nicer interface, same functionality. I've been using it for over a year now, and its built up nicely to 6 tabs of stuff to read with my cuppa over breakfast. Who needs newspapers?

Mint Sauce

just tried looking it up, cant get into anything google related

highlydebased

I dont use it at all. Even if I did, it would only be for news headlines and weather, which I have in my vista sidebar

Stargal

I've customised mine so the background is meant to show roughly what time of day it is in Dublin when I log on, so in the morning times it's very bright, for instance.

I currently have:
News: Guardian, BreakingNews, RTÉ News, BBC, Irish Times, New York Times, Economist, Slate, Reuters Science, Newsweek, Online Journalism Review.

Fun: Boards.ie, Doonesbury, Gmail, NASA Image of the Day, Quotes of the Day, Art of the Day, Weather, People.com, Dictionary.com, Word of the Day.

MooseJam

Google is the work of Satan !

rcs

Mr E wrote: »

I used to use iG until I discovered netvibes (www.netvibes.com) - nicer interface, same functionality. I've been using it for over a year now, and its built up nicely to 6 tabs of stuff to read with my cuppa over breakfast. Who needs newspapers?

iGoogle is the only permanent tab I have open at work! It's the business, have every RSS feed I can think of in it!

But now that I've seen that Netvibes methinks I might be switching... looks pretty cool... will have to play about with it a bit first though.. not looking forward to entering all the feeds in again, bit of a pain in the :eek:

Cheers Mr E.... that's my day at work planned for tomorrow

top_dog

What are the advantages of netvibes over igoogle? Both look similiar to me but I haven't used netvibes.

Ideo

does anybody know if you can have two email tabs? like one for gmail and another for tcd mail(which is a partner with google?) I know i can forward one account onto the other but id like to keep them seperate and i tried it before but i ended up with 2 gmail tabs which is no use! :rolleyes:

phasers

iwhoogle?

Karoma

Moved from AH

dulpit

igoogle is my homepage. Currently it has a beach-scape that changes as the time does (so it's now dark - night time)

Anyways, i have the following:

ESPN.com - NFL
ESPN.com - College Football
ESPN.com
Gmail
BBC News - Technology
Weather for Cork
RTÉ News
RTÉ Weather

I find it dead handy..

Anti

Mac based hardware <_<

rcs

top_dog wrote: »

What are the advantages of netvibes over igoogle? Both look similiar to me but I haven't used netvibes.

I find Netvibes more user friendly. It's easier to move/rename tabs & move content from one tab to another. You can customize it more, you can edit each feed, to show pictures, how many items to display within it etc.

You can also browse the web within netvibes. If you click on a link it will take you to the site without leaving netvibes (handy for work!), or you can open links in a new window if you want.

ShoulderChip

What is the Borads.ie rss feed I cant find it.

Deliverance XXV

I just use the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox for all my RSS feeds. Handy.

bus77

Funny cat picture of the day. Go on, you know you want it...

buildabong

I have the usual: Gmail, Facebook, Wikipedia, weather (Dublin and Cape Town), but I love my big monster who plays with all the boats in the harbour.

Mr E

Still using Netvibes:

Tab 1: Gmail, Eurogamer, Aint It Cool News, Joystiq, Ibood
Tab 2: Rolling Stones CDs/Movies, GBAtemp, Guardian Unlimited Games Blog, Pokernews.com, Spoilerfix
Tab 3: DS Fanboy, Kotaku, Cinema Blend, British Gaming Blog, Rock Paper Shotgun
Tab 4: CHUD, TheFutonCritic, ReelViews Reviews, Zap2It, The Movie Blog, ComingSoon.net

byte

On iGoogle, I currently have:

Gmail
Google Reader
Translate
Currency Converter
BBC World News
Wired Top Stories
Slashdot
Quote of the Day
Mahjong
To-do List