iGoogle replacement
dragonrapide
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Thank goodness I have found a great replacement for my iGoogle home page.
protopage.com
Can be fully customised and very simple to set up. Found all my favourite widgets too. You need to go down the list to explore the widget showcase to get full selection.
Phew, cannot notice the difference now, infact it may even be an improvement.
protopage.com
Can be fully customised and very simple to set up. Found all my favourite widgets too. You need to go down the list to explore the widget showcase to get full selection.
Phew, cannot notice the difference now, infact it may even be an improvement.
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http://www.ighome.com/
You can transfer your settings from igoogle and it looks pretty well the same with very little work. All the regular gadgets and feeds work.
Only slight niggle is that there aren't as many themes, but that's hardly a major issue.
Google can get stuffed.
That is my opinion.
Glad you can see the need to replace it. I enjoyed iGoogle, a nice easy page to let you very quickly access various things.
It's basically set to show tiles from my favourite RSS feeds.
I've got their smartphone and tablet apps too so can catch up on the news and articles when I'm commuting etc.
I like a nice clean Google as my home-page.
Mark
That was suppose to be I can't see the need to replace it, but then you know that anyway.
but you can access these things anyway and no doubt get better information.
Was igoogle also full of widgets or what ever they are called that was not supplied by Google? While i have never used it, I did from someone that his daughter used it and got a virus on her computer from it. Now if that was from Igoogle I don't know, only going by hear say.
I don't have a home page, i use speed dial, which got a list of sites I use and that is it.
Try this for a reason to use such a graphical interface -
I find ighome useful as I can quickly glance through the news feeds in a well-laid out manner to find what I'm interested in. They're laid out on 4 different pages, home, international, science and 'other'. Each column is specific - archaeology, computer news, tabloids, 'serious' newspapers, etc so scrolling through is subject linked and I can see multiple headlines from each source at once. Each of the columns is more than a screen in length.
Then there's a couple of pages of useful stuff - calculators, search engines, site watching, clocks and other utilities. And each page links to my reminder and calendar so it's accessible from anywhere.
In addition, the Google bar at the top is adapted for the search options I use most, and multiple e-mail accounts. All available from my home-page.
Not for everyone, I know. But it works for me and speeds up a lot of daily computer time. What else gives me that flexibility?
Fair enough.
I used to use those sort of things in dial up days, but then most of us did, but to be honest I thought they had become out of date as connections got faster.
i suppose if you like lots of news type stuff then it is fine, but I used to find these sites was limited by what they supplied and not what I wanted them to supply.
But you're right, it does depend on what you need. Neither of my youngest kids have any use for it, they just hook into Facebook and iTunes.
What I have is 120 news headlines on any one screen (and itcould be more but that's a convenient length scroll), with a two-line synopsis of the story, and direct click through to the full version. No signing in required. And each box of headlines is also in essence a bookmark to the BBC or Fox News or Archaeology Today or whatever also.
You can't tell me it would be easier to go to all 24 sites on a page seperately and scroll through all the news on each to get what I want! It's a simple graphic interface to view mass news at one look, and there isn't another setup that does it as efficiently as these homepage options.
If you mean no signing in to a site by your method, sure. You could sign into ighome every time you want it. But once I registered I just set ighome as my home page. Takes me straight in, all the news updated, no manual signing in necessary.
I hink what we have here is a prime example of 'horses for courses'. It doen't suit your information needs, it does mine.
As for signing in, you got to sign in to the sites, so it knows who you are, unless you keep your cookies.
But as you say, horses for courses, but google must have had a reason for getting rid of Igoogle, I presume because the number of users have dropped.
Do you sign out of accounts you use after every session?
Normally yes, but even if I don't cookies are deleted when I close my browser.
Why? you live on your own....what do you think would happen if your stay logged on, allowed cookies? I just like to open a site and use it, can't be bothered to keep signing in....life's too short for that utter nonsense.
That is up to you if you want to do that. I prefer to get rid of cookies simple as that.
He asked why.
To stop all these advertising networks following me around. Saying that I have got a extension on my browser that blocks them anyway.