With the advancement of Internet technology, various tools and techniques are being launched in the market to enhance and fasten up browsing and surfing giving better comfort to the users.

For those who wish to stay current with their favorite websites, iGoogle can be a great help. This customizable homepage offered by Google gives you the opportunity to manage and organize the sites of your liking.

While using this tool, you will find a number of features that can be used to customize your own web menu as per your needs and preferences. Initially, you need to sing in your Gmail account, creating which you would be able to use the iGoogle tool.

However, if you do not wish to sign in then your iGoogle page would be directly saved onto your gadget. But in such case, there is a risk of losing your homepage as if someone deletes your cookies then you would not be able to access it. Moreover, someone using your computer can change your settings. So better way is to sign in and use this service with complete privacy.

Using this tool, you can add subjects of your interest such as games, shopping, news, etc. To make your page attractive, you can replace the standard white page with any of the available themes.

One interesting feature of this service is the gadget facility. Additionally, you can use your Gmail themes in your homepage to make it spicier.

These gadgets come in different forms and allow the user to perform different activities on a single screen. You can store bookmarks, check weather forecast, read latest news and Gmail messages using these gadgets.

For organizing your gadgets in different categories, you can add new tabs to your page and can name them accordingly. Importantly, as this homepage contains all your useful links it is important to keep a backup of it. Visiting the settings section, you can back up your page. This helps you to restore your settings in case anything goes wrong.

In order to access this service from your device, you can use any of the browser including Internet Explorer 7 or above, Google Chrome, Firefox 3.5, and Apple Safari 5 or above. If you wish to return to the basic page without any gadgets, click the gear icon and choose Classic Home page.

Surely, you will love to have all such features on a single portal. So why to wait? Pick up your laptop and create your own personal startpage.