Getting organised with iGoogle

I finally worked out the easiest way of adding a screen shot of my iGoogle page to my blog - knew my coffee-fueled brain would eventually work it out (and yes it was simple). It would be so nice if 'cut & paste' would work but then again, having to think about what it is I'm trying to do as well as looking at the ways others have achieved the same result is also a worthwhile exercise.

So what did I do? I took a screen shot of my iGoogle page and pasted it into a powerpoint document. After I'd shrunk it to a respectable size I then right-clicked on the page/image and saved the picture into the MyPictures folder on my pc. From here I then uploaded the image from my pc into this blog post. Quite simple really but I guess having to come at it from a side angle can be a little disconcerting sometimes especially when I was unable to simply right-click on my iGoogle page and save it as an image initially. A little round-about but heh, it worked.

This second screen shot shows a few of the gadgets I've added reduced to show what I've managed to add to it. I'm a bit dubious now as to whether it actually will do everything I'd like it to do so I may just turn around and explore some of the other options out there.

Later I'm planning to add a Delicious gadget as well as one or two others. I'd like to be able to add straight web-links but I'm yet to work how to do that.

This has been a fun week - it's nice to do something that broadens the brain!!

January 11 - Getting organised

Had fun with iGoogle - the sheer scope of available themes made it hard to choose just one but fun to search for and flick through what was there. I'm sure I'll be back to change my theme againa and again and again. I re-set my Googlemap to default to South Grafton and selected Coffs for my weather section (even though it's always a few degrees cooler there than here at Grafton). I've got a clock, news, and my gmail.
Next I'll just have to work out how to go about adding-in links to my various blogs, etc. Overall, I quite like this application. I can see some changes a'happening!

I checked out Ping and decided that were I far more active on Facebook, Twitter , etc then something like that or any of the 7 ways of managing social networks would be really useful - depending on what I actually wanted to do. What delays me using such tools is that generally I have a different group of friends on the various applications I use and aside from updating profile info (like an email address) across them all I doubt I'd atually want to post the same thing to the all. My use of Facebook is different to my use of Twitter. I have a different range of friends on each and I guess a different use for each. Facebook is more of my 'fun' application, whereas I use Twitter more for Library stuff - I kind of like it that way. Perhaps if my use of my various applications changed then I might make use of these other tools - it's nice to know they're there at least.

I'm not too sure about 43 marks, but I do like All My Favs. I think it's primarily the visual aspect that makes the first relatively unappealing and the other much more appealing.

At this point I'd add a screen shot of my iGoogle page but I'm having troubles with that - perhaps I simply haven't had enough coffee yet. I also have a distinct feeling that the answer is extremely obvious and simple. I know it will come to me...... soon....... maybe.........

When I work it out I'll post it to this blog.

Now I'm off to boil the kettle and pour myself another cup of coffe - I'm bound to be bouncing off the walls by this afternoon!