Monday, June 24, 2013

iGoogle conversion to igHome.com via 4 minute tutorial

iGoogle,  Google's very nice 'start page' that doubles as an extremely flexible RSS feed reader, is being retired on 11/1/2013. Google Reader goes away sooner than that, on July 1st! Here's a short tutorial I put together about how to move your iGoogle RSS feeds en masse to igHome, which has a very similar look and feel to iGoogle.


I looked into a few replacements for iGoogle (and Reader for that matter). igHome fit the bill for me. What are you switching to? Inquiring minds want to know!

10 comments:

TeachMoore said...

Thank you so much! I have been frantically searching for an acceptable replacement to iGoogle. How kind of you to include the tutorial as well. I'm spreading the word.

Gene Tognetti said...

Thanks for the kinds words! Much appreciated.

Tammy Moore said...



I switched to igHome to replace igoogle. The only thing I am having trouble with is that when I type in, oh let's say,"home depot", it doesn't give me a suggested underlined website to go straight to. Any suggestions?

Gene Tognetti said...

Hmm.. Not sure about that. There's a Feedback and Help link at the bottom - some FAQs are there, or you can email support. Good luck and thanks for checking our site!

Beckett said...

This does not work on an iPad 2. Any suggestions?

Anonymous said...

Ed hope all is well

Question is ighome safe to use ? also once you change your password in ighome does that link with my gmai account stops the link with igoogle? I may not be explaining right but i hope you can try to understand what i'm trying to say.

Mr Soul

aac said...

I love it but how do I save it as my home page?

Gene Tognetti said...

Here's a link to their help page w/ info https://ighome.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/139932-set-ighome-as-your-browser-s-home-page

Marilyn Benoit said...

Wow!
I had given up, and had tried to get a Chrome page with apps to replace igoogle. Now I can try to implement your video instructions. THANK YOU!!!!

Anonymous said...

Another great option that I have been using is http://startme.com because it is very simple, user friendly and intuitive.

I have also been able to recommend it to friends in other parts of the world because it exists in many languages. I really like it.