Dress up your iGoogle
January 9th, 2008 (2:00pm) Bob Walsh 8 Comments
Tired of the same blah iGoogle look day after day? There’s a spiffy Google Gadget by Greg Bullock: Custom iGoogle Skins V.2. Besides the 50 or so custom themes submitted so far on topics ranging from Canada to the Mac OS X, you can set iGoogle Skins to your favorite Flickr group and be pleasantly surprised with each reload.
Here’s one of my dull and drab iGoogle tabs before:
And here’s the same tab after adding iGoogle Skins and choosing the “Feeling Lucky” skin:
and then a few minutes later when I reloaded the page:
iGoogle Skins is an inline (renders directly on your iGoogle page) gadget so don’t be surprised if you see the following message once you’ve added this gizmo:
Module requires inlining. Inline modules can alter other parts of the page, and could give its author access to information including your Google cookies and preference settings for other modules.
Loading dodgy gadgets into any part of your web worker cockpit is a bad idea, therefore it’s worth noting that Google made Greg (alias BonstioNet) an official “Google Guru” within the Google Gadgets API Google Group in Sept. 2007, based on this and 12 other gadgets he’s written.
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Chester's Home Remedies says: January 10th, 2008 9:47am
Thanks, I also like the feeling lucky wallpaper. I have seen a few wierd ones, but that is half of the fun!
Zia says: January 11th, 2008 2:23am
Fantastic…Although I am a Netvibes fan, this is also a welcome add-on to iGoogle.
Deb Harrison says: January 11th, 2008 5:11am
Thanks for that Bob. I am just in the process of writing about iGoogle as a whole on my Blog, but I couldn’t get past the skins bit (which actually sits on top of your nicely organised page, persistently getting in the way.
This is a much better option. I am assuming it doesn’t add boxes to your pages?
Sandy says: January 11th, 2008 1:05pm
Interesting… Somebody know about Google PR up?
Bob Walsh says: January 11th, 2008 4:52pm
Deb - my pleasure: it does add a small box that you can either bury at the bottom of the page or use it’s “hide mode” setting to hide. One word of caution there - it took me 15 minutes to somehow unhide it!
ITrush says: January 12th, 2008 7:27am
Cool, thanks for sharing this tool WWD!
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