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media type="custom" key="6456553" align="right" width="100" height="88" Now let's take a look at iGoogle. While on the [|Google] page, you will notice iGoogle on the top right. Click it. First you will be asked to sign into your Google account. iGoogle can be set as your internet homepage and actually save you time! Watch this video for an introduction to iGoogle.

Below is a screenshot of my iGoogle page. By setting this as your homepage, you are able to quickly view a variety of items at one time from your calendar to a sticky note of To Do's to an RSS feed of your favorite sites. Go ahead and follow the "Get Stuff" and add a few things to your iGoogle page. This is actually more than just a simple one page homepage.

As you saw in the video, you simply click the "add stuff" button for a variety of items to add to your page. If you look to the left of the screen you will notice a nav bar. This is how you can have more than one page.

The small arrow to the left of the word "Home" allows you to add more tabs. When you add a tab you can even have Google automatically place items on the page that you might like.

How can you use this feature? Of course you will want your daily items on your iGoogle homepage, but what about your favorite rss feeds? You might opt to have all of your reading on a separate page.

What is an RSS feed? I'm glad you asked! Basically an RSS feed is short list of new information from your favorite sites or blogs. When you were looking through stuff to add to your iGoogle page you might have noticed a sports gadget from your favorite sport site. This gadget is using an RSS feed to display information on your page. You don't have to find a gadget already built for your favorite sites, you can just send the rss feed to your site. You can even create a Google Reader of numerous sites to read at one time. If you look above at the center bottom of my iGoogle page, you will see "Google Reader: 31 Day Challenge" This is just one of my rss feeds I have set up through Google Reader. It feeds about 20 people's blog posts into one location. You can follow the links in this paragraph to learn even more about Rss feeds and Google Reader.

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