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It was brought to my attention yesterday that Google has added an alternative, more enhanced flavor to its classic look: Personalized Google is here.

If your primary email is Gmail, like mine, and you are signed in to your account, Google.com defaults to Google.com/ig. There, you can add, edit, or remove information panes, and even rearrange them any way you want by dragging them around the page. Currently, I have set up my start page to include movie showtimes and ratings, Gmail preview, bookmarks, technology news, word of the day, and the local weather.

If I wasn’t a Gmail user, I probably wouldn’t care for this. Besides, I now use Blingo for web searching (except when searching for images, because Google gives me more options). But I like the simplicity of it, and it works well as a browser homepage. I say, there’s never too many ways to keep yourself updated on things.

To my great pleasure and honor, two CSS gallery sites have very recently featured my webite on their pages. I was informed by email the other day of my blog being featured on CSS-MANIA, and just today I almost had a heart attack when I saw my website on CSS Thesis.

As a student, getting this kind of recognition is very important and encouraging, so thanks to those who have supported me, adviced me, voted for me, and thought of my website worthy of inclusion in the above websites. It’s really something else to see your humble effort of a website featured alongside the likes of clear:left (great site, by the way).

In other (relevant) news, the CSS Thesis folks have created gallerize, “a simple concept that grabs the latest gallery entries from various CSS galleries using their RSS feeds.” Very neat.

UPDATE (09/24/05): I made it on screenspire and Design Shack too, yay!

When I first found out about Backpack a few months ago, I was very excited about it, because one of the neat things I can do with it is to place notes in my pages together with links to interesting sites/pages I would wanna go back to, and I could access them wherever I am. That is, in fact what I use it for most of the time. But, I realized just recently that the del.icio.us way of saving ‘bookmarks’ is much more efficient than the Backpack way. Continue reading »

Just yesterday, which, incidentally was my birthday, Apple had me in awe again, with the simultaneous release of the new iPod nano, iTunes 5, the new Motorola cell phone with iTunes and a hundred songs capacity, the digital, downloadable audiobook editions of the Harry Potter books, and a special edition iPod with the Hogwarts crest engraved on the back. But wait, there’s more! Madonna’s entire musical legacy is now available on iTunes! Continue reading »