{"id":235,"date":"2008-03-14T07:09:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/235"},"modified":"2008-03-14T07:48:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T13:48:47","slug":"igoogle-do-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/235","title":{"rendered":"<em>i<\/em>Google, do you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/ig?hl=en&amp;source=iglk\"><em>i<\/em>Google<\/a> has become a part of my daily life, and I can blame one of my coworkers. No, it&#8217;s not just searching Google I&#8217;m talking about! With a free Google account (you already have one if you use Gmail) you can personalize your online experience every time you go to Google:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Select a visual theme to decorate your page(s) and drag and drop individual sections to rearrange the page(s) however, and as often as, you&#8217;d like<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose from thousands of Google Gadgets to add news, pictures, games, weather, words of the day, and more to your page(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/igoogle2.jpg\" class=\"aligntop\" alt=\"My iGoogle tab for news\" width=\"495\" \/><br \/>\nIn my <em>i<\/em>Google I have quite a few tabs, each a page for a different category such as science news, general news (the one shown here), movies, plants, birds, France, etc. Each time I create and name a tab I populate it with a different banner and gadgets, all chosen from the many that are available (it&#8217;s easy&#8211;just click on &#8220;add stuff&#8221; and search for whatever interests you). <strong>On this image<\/strong> <strong>you can almost make out that your University Library has a gadget too!<\/strong> The gadgets I have here are (across the top:) CNN.com-Europe, CNN.com-World, CNN.com-US; (below the CNN gadgets row:) UWW Library&#8217;s gadget, world newspapers, and Google news; and (under world newspapers:) JS online from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. If any of the news story headlines interests me, I can click on it to read it. If I want articles or books for more information I can search the Library&#8217;s catalog and article databases from the Library&#8217;s gadget. It&#8217;s that handy.<\/p>\n<p>I am finding this to be a great way to keep up with news, and on other pages I have gadgets that help keep my blood pressure down (like the Georgia O&#8217;Keefe art print of the day), educate me (the science news gadgets are great for this!), or just entertain me (like the Eiffel Tower Mini Cam). Oh, and I can listen to the German word of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Try it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iGoogle has become a part of my daily life, and I can blame one of my coworkers. No, it&#8217;s not just searching Google I&#8217;m talking about! With a free Google account (you already have one if you use Gmail) you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/235\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[220,696,697,695],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-fun-stuff","tag-gadgets","tag-google-gadgets","tag-igoogle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}