Personalize your Google homepage

I'm not sure when this was launched by Google, since they have a tendency to sneak up on the unsuspecting public and drop new products and services on our laps, but I have been using this for quite some time and I must say it is very useful.

You can actually personalize your Google home page. So instead of getting a plain vanilla Google page with the search box, you add "portlets" onto your page, available portlets are newfeeds from most major media new outlets, Gmail. Recently, Google has even released an API so keen programmers can also create their own little portlets or widgets.

How do you do it? Well, first get a Google account and to go to http://www.google.com/ig. Then just sign in and add the content that you want. Easy!

If you don't have a Gmail account and if you want one, drop me an email at ynchan at gmail dot com