Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Pageflakes grow up!

Personalised homepage pageflakes will offer 10000 flakes (widgets) from next month. Pageflakes uses AJAX and you can put on your homepage anything you want: weather forecasts, feeds, calculator, calendar, games, news, music player, video player and much more. Personally I use pageflakes and I can do anything that comes up to my mind. Google search is also provided. You can build many homepages and view which you want with a single click (the operation is simple, like changing tabs in firefox) if you have so many flakes and one pages goes to long. Flakes include rss feeds from famous sites, but you can add also your feeds by entering the feed adress or by importing an opml file. I found really usefull the notes flake and the to-do-list, alongside with the google maps and music player widget (which looks like an ipod). Up to now pageflakes work only with gmail, so if you want be able to view your mail if you do not use a google mail account. The interface is available to five languages up to now and more will be probably added. Personally I prefer pageflakes to google personalised homepage bicause of the interface and the number of widgets. It seems that it has become a passion to use a personalised homepage. It is like having a digital newspaper with up-to-date contect 24/7.

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