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iGoogle has been my homepage for some time and is my window into numerous google properties (gmail, calendar, etc). This is an unwelcome change.
by beambot 14y ago
iGoogle has been my homepage for some time and is my window into numerous google properties (gmail, calendar, etc). This is an unwelcome change.
- Torrents 14y agoI've used it for years as well. I have Gmail and Google Calendar widgets, one for Hacker News, one for Reddit, and other news sites. It's a useful aggregator for all of the resources I use on the Web. I'll have to find a replacement before November of 2013.
- fishbacon 14y agoI never found iGoogle too appealing because I find the interface messy, any idea what draws you to it? Is it just that it contains a bunch of RSS data?
- freehunter 14y agoPersonally I use iGoogle daily simply because of the Gmail/Calendar integration (don't need to open anything else to see those) right on the first page I see when I open my browser. It allows me to start my day at one glance: new emails, daily events, and RSS feeds of overnight news. When I switched to it, I was previously using Netvibes. I switched because it loaded roughly 5x faster than Netvibes. There are some things I don't like about it. The header is gigantic. I wish I could turn that off and add a few more feeds without needing to scroll. iGoogle has also been breaking a lot lately. I actually removed my Gmail feed simply because it never worked even though it was developed by Google themselves. I'm sad to see it go, but it's better than the sorry state it's been in for the last few years.
- bishnu 14y agoFor Gmail/Calendar integration, just use widgets on your Android phone :)
- radley 14y agoI used Element Hiding Helper to remove the header since it's redundant.
- Goronmon 14y agoThere are some things I don't like about it. The header is gigantic. I wish I could turn that off and add a few more feeds without needing to scroll. That's what Super iGoogle is for. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncindhlccodninkgiofmmjdidmcmllhd https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ncindhlccodninkgio...
- prostoalex 14y agoThey kept messing around with the layouts for it until the very last moment (you can no longer drag and drop widgets into tabs, switching between the tabs takes two clicks instead of one), but I'm in the same boat - any decent replacements? Netvibes and My Yahoo! both seem to have deteriorated.
- fredliu 14y agoditto. I don't get their rationale behind killing iGoogle. Sure, it's not sleek looking enough nor "social" enough... but are those enough reasons to kill it? Cost of support? This is a product people actually find useful, and many can't live without, isn't that enough a reason to keep it?! On the other hand, I wonder how many people would care about it that much if it's Google+ that were dropped... That's actually something you CAN live without...
- scott_w 14y agoActually, it makes sense considering they want Google+ to be the "homepage" of the web. Why compete with your own products?
- fredliu 14y agoIt makes sense for business, but definitely not for users. Instead of building upon something people actually find useful (iGoogle), they want to replace it with something nobody takes seriously (Google+)?
- maigret 14y agoHave you looked into Netvibes?