I like iGoogle, and the ability to put extra little search engines on my Google home page. I do NOT like the fact that they have been pimping it up with extra crud, like the left side tab (with default name Home ), and most recently the little "Chat" popup that causes a screen redraw.
It turns out the old version of iGoogle is still available (for now, until they change it). Instead of: http://www.google.com/ or: http://www.google.com/ig as a home page, use: http://www.google.com/ig?gl=all The old straight lines come back (they render faster) and the left side tab goes away. That also turns off the annoying "chat" popups, which cause the page to re-render in my case. BTW, my favorite iGoogle gadget is the Multi Search Gadget "mysearches" at: http://www.google.com/ig/directory?gl=all&url=mysearches.googlecode.com%2Fsvn%2Ftrunk%2Fsearch.xml Enter search text and click one of the icons below it (wikipedia, imdb, amazon, etc., perhaps 20 icons out of hundreds) and it goes to that service in a new page or tab. It is only partially customizable. You must select from the 200 or so sites that the author programmed in, and can't add your own to the list. But it still saves a lot of screen space. Perhaps some ambitious person here can rewrite it so it is customizable. Or at least tell me how to make a localhost version of the gadget so I can tweak on it myself. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
