Rob was quite taken aback recently when he noticed that I use the iGoogle personalised desktop. Not that he disapproves, but he was curious as to what I liked about it.
Firstly, it’s great for news. I get both sides of the story, local and international through CNN, News24, Time and various other news feeds covering a variety of my interests.

There are tons of gadgets from which to make up your own “information desk”, alternatively, if you don’t find the exact gadget you’re looking for, you can always create it yourself. You can also subscribe to your favourite blogs and have them sent straight to you.

I can keep abreast of the current top searched terms with my Google Hot Trends feed, learn a new word a day (one off my favourite functions), see what free downloads iTunes is currently offering, monitor my Gmail account, enjoy classic “Art of the Day”, see what’s on at the movies and keep an eye on the phases of the moon (one of the feeds with the least impact on my life, but I just can’t bring myself to delete the moon).

Plus the theme that I’m using (the bus stop theme) changes to the current Cape Town weather conditions – a bit useless, but cool none the less.

Here comes my iGoogle sales pitch:
“iGoogle helps me everyday with news, health and finance tips, interesting information, local weather and a little bit of daily humour – all personalised to my tastes. Start every morning with an iGoogle homepage.”