Wednesday, I discovered Google.
Well, not really. I mean, I use it every day at work. But we had a presentation here in the office about RSS feeds and learned how you can get them on your Yahoo or Google home page or Web browser (and other ways that I now forget).
My Web broswer is too out-of-date for RSS, so I created a Google account.
And so the door opened into a wonderful world of organizational paradise at my fingertips...
On a single page, I can:
*Search the Web
*Send and read e-mail (if I had it with Google)
*Keep tabs on the latest postings on the blogs I read (this is the RSS feed thing)
*See my local weather
*Manage my calendar
*Check movie showtimes at my local theaters
*Get driving directions
And more. No more back and forth from one page to another for me! It's all right there in one spot.
You can move around each "tool" to put it exactly where you want it on the page. You can delete what you don't want and add any number of others. Some of them are pretty cool. Here are some of my favorites, which I might add to my page if they don't clutter it up too much:
* Local gas prices
* "I'm hungry, what's open"
* Allrecipes.com
* Daily Spanish word (mini foreign-language lesson)
* National Geographic picture of the day
* Calorie counter
* To-do list
* Expense tracker
* Daily horoscope (not that I believe in that stuff, but still...) and fortune cookie
* Quote of the day
But there's so much more. It's mind-boggling.
You can track daylight around the globe and keep track of the phases of the moon. You can find out if you're smarter than a fifth grader and keep on top of the world's top-rated coffees. All on a single page.
Honestly, technology never ceases to amaze me.
congrats! Welcome to 2004! ;)