How to Access The New iGoogle

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Back to end of June, Google announced they are testing the new iGoogle in a small number of randomly selected Google accounts. In an other word, not everyone is able to access the canvas view enabled version of iGoogle

For this, we’ve crawled deep into the Internet and finally collected some information about the new iGoogle. Details next!

What’s New

This time, the new iGoogle places the tabs on the left side of the page instead on the top. It allows you to expand the tabs to see the list of gadgets in a tree view. This new structure works similar with Google Reader to me.

gmail-in-new-igoogle

Another big improvement is each gadget has an expanded interface aka canvas view. Within canvas view you’re able to check for more information and deeper functions will be provided too like we can directly read an email or a subscribed feed.

google-reader-in-new-igoogle

How To Access The New iGoogle

To accession the unofficially release version of the new iGoogle, try the steps below:

Visit http://www.google.com/ig
Paste this in the browser address bar:
javascript:_dlsetp('v2=1');
To go back to the original version, click “Leave the sandbox” on top of the page or paste this in the browser address bar:
javascript:_dlsetp('v2=0');

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Comments

kew August 11th, 2008

couldn’t get it to work.. anyway, dont find the iGoogle to be useful nor it make idrool over it…
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th13rteen August 11th, 2008

Yeah I agree with you kew. iGoogle isn’t very useful. I never use it. I don’t think a lot of people do. Most people have MSN or Yahoo as their homepage.
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Kay August 11th, 2008

Sorry guys, we are working out with the encountered script problem.
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BoltClock August 11th, 2008

Kay, WordPress prettified the apostrophes in the JavaScript that you’re supposed to paste into the location bar, so the JavaScript doesn’t work.
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Kay August 11th, 2008

@BoltClock, thank you. Problem solved. I was in office just now. So now only have chance to fix it.
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syokbeb August 11th, 2008

Yes look like google is try to do their best serve customer worldwide.

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Juliana August 11th, 2008

Wow..mean im the lucky one to be selected.LOL
Well i dont find it useful too..
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Yong How August 11th, 2008

Yeah can’t wait to try this new Google features. Google had implemented alot of good free features and API for developers.
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Gravity August 12th, 2008

Works like a charm, thnx alot.
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Danesh August 13th, 2008

Thanks dude, looks good.
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Matt Richards August 29th, 2008

nice one, works great.
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Bobby October 18th, 2008

I read about a site today called 43marks.com - its like iGoogle but better cuz you can add you own bookmarks and the bookmarks can be websites not just gadgets and RSS feeds although you can upload your favorite RSS feeds too. Its free and totally customizable. Plus you don’t have to login to see your bookmarks and RSS feeds cuz they give you a unique URL just type that in to any computer and you have your bookmarks without having to login - Just one less step for me to access my bookmarks
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