How to Spice Up Your Online Experience with iGoogle

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How to Spice Up Your
Online Experience
with iGoogle
Sid Macatol

Sid Macatol - How to Spice Up Your Online Experience with iGoogle 18-December 2010

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What in the world is
iGoogle?

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Imagine having
your own entrance
to your internet
world


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Photo Credit: “Theatre Breaks London” by Andy Roberts (http://www.flickr.com/photos/aroberts/)


iGoogle is a page containing 5

all your links and reminders


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You decide what
goes into it


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You alone have
access to it.
It’s fully yours


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A banner that inspires you


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Daily quotes to motivate you


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Links to your favorite sites


Clocks to keep you abreast of 11

the time around the world


Ever ready currency 12

converter of your choice


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A snapshot of your Gmail


Weather reports from the 14

cities of your choice


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Ever ready units converter


Ever ready Document to PDF 16

converter


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Jokes to humor you


Tropical storm tracking to 18

alert you


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The choices are
almost endless


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By choices, I mean
your choices


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There are hundreds
of gadgets for you
to choose from


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Go to google.com/ig


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Sign in


Enter your own Email and 24

Password


If you’re using someone 25

else’s computer, uncheck this


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Click the ‘Sign in’ button


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Let’s change the theme


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Choose a category here


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Or, type the keyword


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Click ‘Next’ for more options


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Click ‘Add it now’


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Click ‘x’


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Relish your new theme


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It’s time add stuff to
your page


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Click this button


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Click ‘Add a tab’


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Type a tab name


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You can have separate
tabs for your business,
social network, personal
interests, etc.


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Uncheck this for now


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Click ‘OK’


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Click ‘Look for new stuff’


This is where we look for 42

gadgets


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At this point, I suggest
you make a list of things
you want in your
iGoogle Page


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With the number of
Gadgets available,
you can be
overwhelmed


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So, better start with
a list of what what
you want


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Write your iGoogle Wish List


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You just listed ten
items. That’s enough
at this point.


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Let’s start with Gmail


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Click ‘Search’


Here are the results. Scroll 50

down for more


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Note who created the gadget


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Note how many users


I think the higher this number 53

the better for you


Let’s stick to Google-made 54

gadget for Gmail at this time


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Click ‘Back to iGoogle home’


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There’s your Gmail gadget


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We’ve done 1 of 10 in the list


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Let’s go the 2nd item


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Click ‘Add stuff’


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Type ‘Tony Robbins’


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Click ‘Search’


We’re looking for quotes, 63

so scroll down


This looks like the one you 64

want


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There you have it


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Wait!
What happened to
the Gmail gadget?


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It moved down


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Don’t worry we can
rearrange the
gadgets later


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We’re done with 2 of 10!


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Next, the weather report


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Click ‘Add stuff’


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Type ‘weather report’


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Click ‘Search’


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This one looks good


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There’s your gadget


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Click ‘Settings’


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Click ‘Add Location’


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Type ‘manila’


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Click ‘Search’


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Click ‘Manila (Philippines)’


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Click ‘Edit Locations’


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Delete New York


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Click ‘Celsius’


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Click ‘Close’


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Click the tab name


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There you have it!


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We just did 3 of 9!


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By now, you get the
hang of it?


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I’ll just be showing
you where I get the
other gadgets from
this slide onwards


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World Time


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Jokes


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Currency Converter


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Unit Converter


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News on Android


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Sticky Note


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Table Styled Bookmark


Here is your hodge podge of 101

gadgets


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They can be
rearranged


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Click and drag each gadget


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Rearrange the
gadgets according to
your liking


I placed Tony Robbins, Gmail 105

and World Time on top


Here are the rest of the 106

gadgets


Let’s put something in your 107

bookmarks gadget


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Click this icon


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Click ‘Edit settings’


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Ignore this for now


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Two columns are ok


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Six rows would be good


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Retain this


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Have fun, choose Icon Right


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I suggest you check this


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Click ‘Save’


There’s our Edit icon, which 117

we moved to the right


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Click Google


This is your iGoogle opened 119

in a new tab


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Search for your hot topic


Click on the search result you 121

like the most


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Highlight and copy the URL


Back to Bookmarks, click the 123

Edit icon


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Type ‘Football News’


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Paste the URL here


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There’s your Bookmark


What if you want it in the 127

second column?


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Click Edit


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Click ‘Move’


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Click and drag to next column


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Clik ‘OK’


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There’s your bookmark


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Use same
procedure for the
rest of the links you
want to bookmark


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We got all ten!


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Add as many other
tabs and stuff as
you like


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Two more things
before we end


Make iGoogle your home 137

page in your computer


If you’re using another 138

computer, Sign Out


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Your iGoogle Page
is precioussss


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Thanks for watching the slides.

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Dream a life!
Live your dreams!
Sid Macatol


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