THING 28. CUSTOMIZED HOME PAGES

I set up a home page using iGoogle. I added the weather, Dow Jones, a sticky note, calendar, CNNMoney. com, the BBC news, the National Geographic picture, Hulu and other features. Many of the news organizations came up by default. I chose a theme for the top. This was easy and fun to put together.

I was concerned that if I created a home page with iGoogle, this would replace the home page we have on our staff Intranet. I didn't want this to happen. After asking around, I learned that to change the home page default on Internet Explorer, you have to go into Tools and then Internet options. So I won't do that. Come to think of it, I didn't find a link on iGoogle where you could make that your home page. Netvibes has an obvious link at the top of the screen to set that as the default home page.

THING 13. ONLINE PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

I set up accounts with Ta-da and Remember the milk. I am a big list maker, and I wanted to see how useful it is to make lists online. I like Ta-da better because it's easier to use. Remember the milk is too complicated. It's more than I want to get into. I will probably keep making handwritten lists as well as using online ones.

I had fun playing with iGoogle and PageFlakes. I didn't make either my start page, but I might come back to this later.

I used Google Calendar to make a September sign-up sheet for cleaning the kitchen at SV. My group has two months out of the year. Google Calendar is a lot easier to use than Calendar Wizard. I've been using that for years, and it's a pain. As for the the other calendars, 30 boxes is misnamed. Their calendar only shows 4 weeks-- that's 28 days. You have to scroll down to see the rest of the month. Scrybe looks cool. I watched the YouTube video showing how it works. I didn't sign up for it, because I don't think I need anything that detailed right now.