iGoogle, PageFlakes, and Netvibes are very similar to each other. They all are very simple to set up and useful to keep organized. All of them allow you to customize several pages via tabs. PageFlakes and Netvibes have the tabs on top and iGoogle has them on the left side which makes it a bit less obvious at first but equally useful. I chose to stay with iGoogle for several reasons, some more important than others. iGoogle has a more attractive and innovative look, but more importantly, I was already using iGoogle because Google has combined many other services that I use all the time on this page, such as Gmail, Maps, internet search and more. This is how my iGoogle page looks like now:
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I have already made this page my permanent page and I plan to customize it further.
In reference to the online Calendars I looked at Scrybe. Scrybe is not accepting subscriptions at the moment but I look at a video clip where Scrybe is explained. I could not take a look at “30 Boxes” because I would have to create an account and I didn’t want another account. Again, Scrybe seems very user friendly and useful, but once again I chose Google Calendar for reasons similar to the ones explained previously. I am not using Google Calendar but I may, because it is on the internet and therefore I will have access to it from anywhere. Right now I am using MS Outlook at home and my “smart phone” when not at home, but I don’t like that I have to synchronize them all the time manually. I wish my cell phone would connect to my computer automatically via my wireless network when I am at home without my having to actually connect it to my Vista desktop computer, open Outlook and manually synchronize the calendar. The only problem with Google Calendar is that I don’t know if I can synchronize my calendar with my cell phone. If I do, I will definitely prefer Google over Outlook.
“Ta da list” or “Remember the Milk” are online To Do lists which require you to create an account. Honestly I don’t need this, simply because the things that I have to do are always clear in time. Without a To Do list I never forget to do anything. Very rarely I forget something that I have to do. Jott don’t appear to be an online To Do list. Perhaps their new owner got rid of that. To Do lists seem to be too much work for me and I don’t have the need for one.
I would recommend the Google online Calendar since it is online and it is for free. I am considering using it myself. I will also recommend iGoogle.
I decided not to do the Challenge part this time.
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