Export Your iGoogle Homepage to Another Account

If you’re a fan of iGoogle, you probably have a perfect setup with RSS Feeds, Themes, and other gadgets just how you like it. Today we take a look at exporting those settings into another Google account so you don’t have to rebuild your favorite homepage.

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For those of you who don’t know what iGoogle is, it’s a customizable homepage that contains the Google Search box and then your personalized gadgets. There are tons of different things you can add like news, weather, Gmail, stock reports, RSS feeds from any site, games, movie times…etc. In fact you can even design your own iGoogle gadget if you want. It also lets you pick custom themes, move the gadgets around, and create new tabs for even more gadgets.

If you have been customizing your iGoogle homepage to perfection over several months, it would certainly be painful to have to start over if you needed to change accounts. To export and save the settings click on My Account located in the top right hand corner of the homepage.

Then under My Products click on the Settings link next to iGoogle.

 

Scroll all the way to the bottom of the iGoogle Settings page and click on Export iGoogle settings to your computer.

Save the XML file to a location on your hard drive.

Now when you sign into your different account go to the bottom of the Settings page. This time browse to the location of your saved iGoogle XML document and then click on Import.

It only takes a second for the import to complete and when it does, go to the homepage and you’ll have everything there exactly how it was in your old account. This quick tip will save a lot of time and frustration when moving between Google accounts.

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How To Run 4 Different Google Searches at Once In the Same Tab

When doing research online, it’s common to have multiple searches running at the same time. Clicking between tabs for multiple searches can be annoying, and easy to loose track of where you’re at. Today we take a look at googlegooglegooglegoogle.com which lets you run four Google searches in the same tab.

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Yes, that is really what the site is called…try saying it fast a few times. When you go to the page you will have four different Googles where you can begin searches in each.

 

There are a few different things you can do with each window. Click on the green arrow to go to a different site…

Easily pull up Wikipedia to have that open while you’re searching results, and you can also click back to Google.

 

There is a menu list in the lower left corner that allows you to restore closed Googles, change their layout, and points to a list of other Google sites.

You can close out of one or more of the windows as well to get a better view of a page.

For this example in Firefox, I’m running a Google search, checking out image results from a different search, catching up with sports headlines, and checking out a Wikipedia page all at once.

 

If you’re looking for a way to keep more organized while doing research, this site can come in very handy.

Visit googlegooglegooglegoogle.com

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Googsystray – Keep Track Of Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, Google Reader From System Tray

Most of us use one or more Google services in our day to day life. If you use Google Voice, Gmail, Google Calendar, or Google Reader, here is a brilliant application that allows you keep track of all that stuff without the help of a web  browser.

Here are the features of Googsystray:

Google Voice is the most feature-filled service at the moment. There’s almost no reason to ever go to the ‘actual’ GV page. You can hit a hotkey and pop up a ‘new SMS’ dialog, and of course replying to unread SMS is already in there. There’s no current support for listening to voicemails, although you can see the transcripts.

GMail support is limited. GST is able to monitor your Inbox and any other labels you choose, notify you of new emails, and let you know how many unread emails you have in each label. You’re also able to mark messages read, spam, or delete them.

Google Reader support is limited to notifications on new RSS articles. It supports a ‘low water mark’ — that is, it won’t notify you until the number of unread articles has reached a configurable point. I find it’s very helpful in managing my feeds without either getting overwhelmed, or wasting time checking it constantly.

Google Calendar support is limited to notifications on upcoming events (if you’ve set an alert on the actual Google Calendar page.

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