www.google.ca/ig
Now you can do much more all from the same Google search page. Here's how I've got mine set up:
Who knows, because of this, I might actually start to get informed by reading Slashdot and other articles.
And there's a host of other things you can add to it. Just click on "Add Content" and a sidebar will appear with all the things you can add to it.
As a last note of new Google features (this one isn't so new, but it is very nice, especially when combined with this), you can now send all your email through your gmail account through another account. For example, I have my compsci.ca email, but I don't like the interface. So I set it to forward my mail to gmail, and I set gmail to send through compsci.
This personalized Google page is another incentive to use gmail, as it gives you a preview of your inbox. You can check your email often without having to go to the trouble of signing in, running an email program like Thunderbird constantly, or leaving a email tab open.
When checking email from this preview, it doesn't open your account like normal. It just shows the email itself (and conversations linked with it) and a reply box. Everything loads nice and fast, even when you're on dial up.
