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View Your Google Tasks In Actual Full-Screen

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | We pointed to an iGoogle interface for Google’s Tasks to-do manager yesterday that gave users a pretty big view inside their custom home page. Want a totally full-size Tasks view without launching iGoogle? Bookmark the “Canvas view” page. More »

Build An Uber Job-Search Dashboard With iGoogle

9:30AM Adam Pash | With an unemployment rate hovering around 5.7% in Australia, every little thing you can do to improve your job search helps. Weblog Freelance Folder details how to create a seriously streamlined job-finding dashboard using iGoogle. More »

iGoogle Working With Secure Gmail Connections

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Setting Gmail to always use a secure connection (connecting with https://) is a good idea for many reasons, but doing so had, for a long time, prevented users of Google’s customised iGoogle pages from accessing their Gmail. More »

Video Chat Directly From iGoogle

12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Earlier this year Google added the chat sidebar to iGoogle, which gave you Gmail-style chat in your iGoogle start page. Now they’ve expanded the chat functionality to include video chat right from the main iGoogle interface. More »

Coastalwatch Splashes Out With iGoogle Version

1:00PM Angus Kidman | You can already access surf conditions tracking site Coastalwatch via the web or on your mobile phone. Now there’s an iGoogle gadget to let you seek out the perfect wave on your home page. More »

Google Adds “Social Gadgets” To iGoogle

8:30AM Angus Kidman | Australia is often low down the list when it comes to Google features getting rolled out (Voice, anyone?), but a new range of “social gadgets” for iGoogle are being tested in Australia before hitting the rest of the world. More »

Google Updates Australian iGoogle Apps

2:30PM Angus Kidman | Google has launched a minor refit of its local iGoogle home page, including ‘canvas view’ gadgets that can expand and contract without leaving the iGoogle site and a bunch of additional news feed gadgets. More »

Convert iGoogle Feeds To Google Reader Subscriptions

1:05AM Kevin Purdy | iGoogle, the Google start page loaded with gadgets and data, is a nice way to get started with RSS feeds. When it’s time to upgrade to full-fledged feed reading, iGoogle users have two roads they can go down. More »

Zoho Gadgets Puts Your Web Work Nearly Anywhere

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Online office suite Zoho one-ups its Google counterpart by offering a half-dozen quick-access gadgets for its Docs, Mail, Calendar, and other webapps, embeddable in Gmail, Facebook, iGoogle start pages, and nearly anywhere. More »

iGoogle Adds Sidebar Chat, Works Just Like Gmail

9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Google’s start page is rolling out a sidebar chat tool, which uses Gmail users’ existing chat settings if they have them but can also chat between iGoogle users without Gmail (all 12 of them?) We kid, we kid. iGoogle’s chat works almost exactly like Gmail, offering the same status options, providing mouse-over details on contacts and quick links to email, chat, and choose their appearance frequency in your list. If you want to invite a non-Gmail friend to chat, you can do that from the “Add friends” link—they’ll have to sign up for iGoogle, but after that, you’re both inside Google Talk/Chat. The two noticeable drawbacks to iGoogle chat are the lack of Gmail’s AIM support, and no pop-out options for the chat windows that pop up from the lower-right corner. If you use iGoogle to get things done and don’t want any chats, you can sign out and minimise the chat bar to a single line. It’s a US-English-only thing for now, but “coming soon” for other languages and countries. Does Google Talk make your iGoogle page a better all-in-one home page, or is it feature overload? What features would you like to see installed? Trade your takes in the comments. Chatting away on iGoogle… [Official Google Blog] More »