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IGoogle, Do You?

Reblogger Christopher Johnston
Real Estate Agent with The Johnston Team

Original content by Missy Caulk

Do you use IGoogle?

I use IGoogle for my home page on Google and love it. Today on Twitter, I posted that I had just added Twitter to my IGoogle page.  IGoogle is a personal home page that you set up for your personal use.

Like all Google Apps it is FREE. 

The first step is to go to Gmail and get a free email account. If you don't want to use it for email that is OK, but it is the door into all the other free Google apps. For example: I use Missy@MissyCaulk.com for my email so all I do is forward all my emails from caulk.missy@gmail.com into my Outlook account which is Missy@MissyCaulk.com.  So I am only managing one email account.

After you get your GMail address,  you go to your setting page and add all the apps you want to that Google provides. This is where you set up your GoogleDocs. Google Calendar, Google Alerts etc....

This list on the left is how I have cutomized my IGoogle Home Page. There are literally hundreds of applications created for IGoogle, so personalize it and make it your own.

When I want to search on Google it is set up to go to my IGoogle Home Page.

 

Here is a screen shot of my home page on iGoogle. I used SnagIt to capture it. All the apps on my home page are on the left column as this snap shot is only part of my page. (The left column is a new feature).

You can see, I bring in Twitter, my Google Feedreader for all the blogs I subscribe to, all the AgentGenius posts, my to do list, Google Maps, Dictionary, YouTube, Digg, and even one of my RockYou Listings. My Google Calendar sync's with my Outlook Calendar, and Blackberry. It is all in front of me all day as I work.

Leave questions below in the comment section. Like all things Google offers this is is easy to set up.

 

IGoogle screen shot

Noman Syed
Freelance Programmer - Detroit, MI

Why don't you migrate to Google apps? ie you will have all Google Apps for Missy@MissyCaulk.com

25GB email

Postini (Powerful Gmail SpamGuard)

on and on!

Aug 21, 2009 08:41 AM