King  Gary 

Google just added a new feature to the Google Personalized Homepage - themes. www.google.com used to be my browser’s homepage for a long time, and then I finally had an epiphany: most of the tools that I use online have widgets for the Personalized Homepage, so why don’t I just use that as my homepage and use those widgets? (Specifically, Gmail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, a clock/calendar, and the weather.) I made this move about a month ago, and today, they released a new themes feature. I’m currently using the one called ‘City Scape’; there’s a sun in the background, which moves depending on the current time - very cool. The weather in the background image also changes depending on the current weather at my location that I have set.

This is really a nice touch to the homepage, and it does indeed give the homepage just a bit more much needed personality in the fight for every browser’s homepage.

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