Themes in iGoogle

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DREW NOAH: So, the first thing I'll show you how to do is how to change the theme. It's probably one of the first things you want to do and it's really, it's just kind of something fun so you don't have to do it, but iGoogle has a whole lot of themes that actually, they'll change like during the day or like depending on like what the season is or something like that so it's pretty cool. So to do that, just go right here to select theme and it's going to bring up this page right here which you'll see there's a gadgets and themes tab, we'll be looking at this a lot when I'm--started showing you the gadgets. I'm kinda getting you an idea of--just this page we'll be using a lot because this is where you go to customize your iGoogle page. But looking at the themes tab, here's one, pretty cool one I like called Earth-light depending on the time of day, you actually see where it's daylight and where it's dark in the world. This is kind of an abstract one and this one too will change over time. It's not just going to look like this, it's going to change, just like this one's changing as the day goes on. Supermoto Mayhem, Adventure in Lollipopland, there's just a whole bunch of different themes, Hong Kong, Bus Stop and you see we've got like pages and pages of themes and then kinda the Solar System, Winter Village, Spring Scape and they change throughout the day. I like this beach one, this one I've used before and the sun actually sets at night so that's pretty cool. And then, of course, the Classic if you don't really need a crazy theme, then you can just stick with the classic theme. A Sweet Dreams, Tea House, and what's cool about iGoogle is that they're constantly adding these themes and gadgets as well, but I remember when I first started using it, they didn't--there was only like six themes or something, so now there's like pages and pages of them, so there's a pretty cool one, just--you can see when you actually add it, what it's doing it's just changing this top part in between the top of the page and where all your gadgets are. So you can kind of go through and just keep checking them out, see which one's you like. I like this one, so I'm going to stick with this one for now, but remember most of them will change throughout the day, so it's kind of fun to try different ones out and see what they look like in different times of the day and whenever it becomes night time, North America will be in darkness, just like the rest of the world is now, but so after you select a theme that changes by the time of day, usually you'll get a little pop up that says like enter location. So you'll have to enter your location if you want to change depending on where you are. So, I'll just enter in where I am and save and it was pretty much already set to daylight in North America anyway, but you get the idea. So that's how you can change your theme in iGoogle.

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