Google Personalised Homepage
Google has come up with many great services. One of their best is the Personalised Homepage, where you can choose what RSS feeds you want to have on your own customised homepage. For more information about RSS, please click here. To start off, there are a number of preset feeds that you can add and remove. You can then add your own by simply searching for the particular feed name, such as “machet” if you are looking for The Machets’ Blog. The feeds are displayed in three rows and link back to the original post.
Unfortunately, your own RSS feeds only display the title of the post, with a link to see the story. This is where the Google Personalised Homepage has its downfall, where you can’t do what is written on the box. You can personalise it to some extent, but the fine details are left out. On most feeds, users only have the ability to choose how many titles are displayed. Some of the preset feeds have extra information appended to them, including the news stories, quotes of the day and your Gmail inbox.
Overall, the Google Personalised Homepage is a good service. I have it as my homepage and it loads quickly without many troubles. Google still needs to flatten out little problems and improve the service, but otherwise it gets a reasonable score of three out of five.
The Google Personalised Homepage requires a Google Account or Gmail account. To access the service, go to google.com/ig or google.com.au/ig for Australians. You can use the two localised serviced interchangeably, and you should to get the most suitable for your needs.
June 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am
I have installed live to my computer and use that email address but when I rang my ISP Vodafone they would not give me the pop to use for the in and out mail can you help please Jas