Tag: PERSONALIZEDHOME

Nowsy is feed reader that lets you add an unlimited number of feeds as panes on a personalized home page-style page. It has a clean, uncluttered interface but otherwise does little that will blow anyone away or make them switch from Netvibes or Google Personalized Homepage. For newshounds, however, it does have once nice feature: You can search among your feed items. Typing in a search term will ...

This idea seems a little obvious in hindsight, but I didn't think of it, Google field technician Erica Joy did: Rather than keeping Google Personalized Home (a.k.a. Google IG) open in a tab, change the layout of your Gadgets so they're all in the left column, then configure Firefox to open it in the sidebar. That way you can always have quick access to your Personalized Home without switching away ...

30 Boxes' Narendra Rocherolle wrote in to tell us about the new 30 Boxes Webtop, which is basically, well, a personalized home page a la Netvibes or Goowy. What sets it apart, of course, is that it's tightly integrated with the 30 Boxes calendar, so if you're already a 30 Boxes user you may prefer it to other home page options. Right now it's pretty basic, with upcoming events, buddy updates, ...

Reader Mark wrote in to let us know that Google has released a Google Calendar widget for Google Personalized Home. It looks pretty standard, showing a calendar view on top and events for the selected day (and the following day if there's room) down below. It also features Quick Add and Create event buttons. [Thanks, Mark!] ...

Last month I mentioned that Flash-based personalized home page Goowy was working on adding IM and online file storage functionality. It took a bit longer than I'd expected, but those features are now online. The web-based IM feature lets you sign on to MSN, Yahoo, ICQ or AOL and chat in your browser, and the web-based storage gives you a free 1GB virtual hard drive via Box.net. You can try Goowy ...