Google
Thursday, June 7th, 2007
In the
Official Google Reader Blog today there was an interesting post that mentioned that
Michael Bolin had created 'Your Page Here', a gadget for iGoogle that allows you to embed the Google Reader, Calendar or just about any web page on its own tab in iGoogle.
This seemed like a pretty nifty idea to me so I thought I would give it a whirl, and it seems to work very well. You can only have six tabs on the iGoogle homepage (
though there is a hack . . .) so if you are already at maximum you may have to have a bit of a sort out, you can't really have anything else running in the same tab.
I now have my Google Reader and Calendar along with Docs and Spreadsheets running in their own tabs, as well as a tab with this blog in it which allows me to run this site without ever leaving iGoogle.
There were a few problems getting Gmail to work in its own tab, but that may just have been me, feel free to give it a whirl yourself and let me know how you got on.
With the
Remember The Milk now working offline via the
Google Gears application I thought I would see how well that worked too, so I added that into a tab as well and it synchronizes fine when you go back online.
All in all I think that the addition of Michael Bolin's'Your Page Here' gadget will go a long way to helping me be more productive, especially if I can work out how to get Gmail to work!
What uses do you think you can make of it? Do you think this will increase your productivity? Let me know in the comments.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
I was just checking my Google RSS feed and noticed that there is now has a new feature available, Google Gears, that you can use offline to read your 2000 most recent articles, which is more than you should need
unless you're Robert Scoble. ;-)
I haven't had a chance to fully check this feature out yet, but if it up to Google's usual standard it should be pretty nifty.
Is this a feature you think you will use? Do you use Google for your feeds or do you prefer to use another application? Let me know in the comments if you think online or offline is the best way to read your feeds.
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