iGoogle - A centralised stop off point

I have been wanting to blog about iGoogle for 'quite' a while now (back a few months time when there were some news about the revived Google Homepage)!

So essentially iGoogle is your own customised Google Homepage (formerly called 'Google Personalised Homepage' hahaha).

Personally I found that it is 'similar' to netvibes, where I can subscribe to various sources of news by adding a 'Gadget' to my page (I have actually added them on another tab called 'News').

But what's more is that I can add 'other' gadgets...e.g. Horoscope, Garfield stripes, weather update.....as well as gadgets that sync with my other Google software, e.g. Google calendar and gmail. This is what my Home tab looks like (enjoy!):

My iGoogle Home page

Another thing I found that is very neat is that Google has allowed its users to pick a theme for their iGoogle page. For the theme that I've picked I noticed that it changes according to your local weather!!!!! @.@ hehee See the following:

Sunny day:

Rainy day:

Now I thought this was pretty neat of Google to add this in! It really does give their user a nice surprise! : )

So all-in-all, iGoogle have managed to create one centralised place for me where I can just stop off to check:

• If I have new emails
  
• Upcoming appointments
• To look at news around the world
• Or just to chill out for a minute or two (by looking at 'jokes of the day' or 'Garfield comic stripes' and other gadgets)! : P

I still don't use it constantly or perhaps as frequently as Google would expect for their average user. May be I'll use it more frequently now that I have add it onto my Firefox bookmark toolbars! : P Definitely worth a try!