Recently Google has added a number of new features in their iGoogle. Now Google is inviting internet users to take a tour of iGoogle new features. Google has added “Canvas View” to their iGoogle gadgets that offer users to full screen and the navigation bar is shifted from top to left Let’s have a closer look into iGoogle new features.
"Canvas view" Gadgets
Canvas view gadget help iGoogle users to view GMail Messages, watch video, play games and do a more a lot of things with their favorite websites in full screen view. Users can expand any gadget to full-screen view ("canvas view") by clicking its "maximize" button or the gadget name in the left-navigation bar.
Full Feed Reading
iGoogle users can now read full RSS feeds in canvas view. including rich content like inline videos and photos. If you use Google Reader, you can also keep track of what you’ve read and star your favorite feeds.
Improved Google gadgets
The Google Reader gadget’s full-screen "canvas view" lets you browse, share and highlight your feeds, manage folders and subscriptions and use keyboard shortcuts. The Gmail gadget lets you forward and reply to messages and compose new ones. The YouTube gadget lets you watch, browse and search YouTube videos, and even see related videos, all in full screen. And you can do all of this from within your iGoogle page.
Left navigation
Google has introduced the left navigation bar to their Google Gadgets . Under each tab, all your gadgets on that tab will be listed. With the left navigation, you can click on the name of any gadget and it will take you to the canvas view page of that gadget with one click. You can always return to the home view of your tab with all the gadgets by clicking on the name of the tab in the left navigation or the minimize button on the gadget.
Source : Learn more about iGoogle’s new features
How do you get the left-side navigation bar? I use iGoogle for my home page. This looks pretty neat. But how do you get it? Can’t figure out any source for getting this installed into my iGoogle page???
@Ronald
just type this url http://www.google.com/ig
u will we able to access all new features of iGoogle
Nice article. Thanks.
Eugene
I like the “look” of the changes, but no one in Google’s organization has given any consideration to those of us who have vision issues. SOME of the text (not all of it) is SO small that it’s impossible to read, even with the Windows magnifyer. If I adjust my computer settings so I can see my Google homepage comfortably, it messes up the rest of the world for me. I wish you had given an option for adjusting the font sizes in some of the sections.