Dressing Up Your iGoogle

CONGRATS to Pia and Jenty who won last week’s free giveaway! They both win two lovely cushions from Side Attraction3. Congrats ladies! And our thanks to Side Attraction3 for giving away their lovely luxury goodies.
 
Remember that all South-African eLuckypacket readers purchasing from Side Attraction3 using the promotional code elucky will get a free Tickled Pink Picnic Throw, valued at R360! So please pay a visit to their site!
 
Desre Buirski iGoogle Theme

Ahem! It doesn’t take much to get me to rave about iGoogle.

“What’s iGoogle?” you ask. iGoogle is your very own personal homepage on the Internet, where you can read all of your blogs and news (using Google Reader) on one page, and add all the techie links and widgets that make life easier.

On my iGoogle homepage, I have links to my email login pages, plug-ins that give me the time and weather where all my family life, and (use them tens of times a day) Google and Wikipedia search boxes.

And then I have a whole separate tab that takes me to all my eLuckypacket stuff — admin and email logins, lists of to-dos, ideas for posts and so on. Right where I need them, wherever I am!

But I digress. This week, Google launched a whole range of new iGoogle artist themes. Everything from artists’ renditions of Dolce and Gabbana fashions and Lance Armstrong cycling to Anne Geddes babies and Japanese anime themes.

I chose the rich Desre Buirski theme shown above because I love the colours! Desre is the designer responsible for Nelson Mandela’s now-famous shirts.

The theme shows the outline of Africa filled in with a lovely silk-shirty fabric, and the design shifts throughout the day with different bits of the continent showing up in your iGoogle header every time you go there.

Little bit of geekdom, little bit of Africa, stunning design!
 

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Posted: May 5th, 2008

Categories: Arts & culture, Fashion & beauty, From South Africa, Technology & gadgets


4 Responses to “Dressing Up Your iGoogle”

  1. hanlie says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 11:12 am

    I also use iGoogle as my homepage and have noticed the artist thing, but haven’t investigated. I’ll do it right away!

    Man, I was hoping to win those wooden cushions! Congrats to the winners! It was a great competition, Sue!

  2. Jenty says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    Oh wow, I’m thrilled!! Thanks so much :)

  3. Pia says:
    May 6th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    Thanks, guys! Can’t wait :-)

  4. Jennifer says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

    I am on iGoogle about 15 times a day — library blog rss feeders in the left column, law blog feeders in the right column, news site feeders in the middle (including the feeder for eLuckypacket at the bottom of the column). It is absolutely my lifeline at work. I know I’ve only scratched the surface with it, and I have not tried Google Reader yet but I’ve heard enough about it that I feel like I should.

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