Hey ho there, it’s just come to my attention that google quit supporting inline objects on their igoogle home page product. What this means is that people who were using my little tutorial to stop igoogle from auto-refreshing and to get another window, such as pulling in google reader, are pretty much s.o.l. One caveat to this is that if you managed to load in that inline gadget prior to December 12, 2007, google supposedly took a “snapshot” to allow you to continue using it.
After a cursory look around the tubes, I haven’t seen anything that could replace the inline tools I had suggested. I’ll add more info if I find any updates on this scenario…
How funny that my web site is popping up in the search engines highest in regards to igoogle, specifically the posting that I put up last week about placing Google Reader inside of igoogle and stopping the auto-refresh on it.
Please keep in mind I am in no way an expert at this! I’m just persistent when it comes to rooting out the information that I want. Ahem. Having said that, I’m going to add a couple more bits of information for those people who quickly drop in and drop out of my blog. I make zero money off this thing, so maybe just as a kindness to me, if you find something useful here, read a couple other posts. I go into paroxysms of happiness when I get more traffic.
So the largest number of hits I’ve gotten has been from people wanting to shut off igoogle, some people are so incensed by it that they want to SHUT OFF IGOOGLE. Hahah.
Anyways, I’m not really sure why this is difficult, but I’ve actually taken a snapshot of my personal page to show you how to do it.
As you can tell, I like the beach theme, and all you have to do to shut off igoogle is press on that link I’ve highlighted in red that says Classic Home. Hey presto and no more personalized home page.
The other thing I’m going to briefly mention is resetting igoogle. I’m doing this more for myself than anyone else, just so that I have a place on my own blog that I can look up the link if needed. If you are unhappy with what you’ve created on your igoogle page you can reset it. Very simple. Just follow this link: http://www.google.com/ig/resetprefs.html. This will take you to a page where you can choose what you’d like to reset, I’ve always just chosen reset all. If there are tabs that you’d like to hang on to, don’t forget to click on the little drop down on the tab and click on share. Email it to yourself.
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