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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Google adds skins to personal home pages

Google is finally skinnable. The promised feature has finally appeared on personalised home pages, and you now have a choice of half a dozen themes including Beach, Bus Stop and Sweet Dreams. Many more are on the way. The Official Google Blog says:



All of our themes are dynamic: they change with your own local time of day, current weather conditions or season. If you add the beach theme, for example (changes with time of day), it will ask you for your Zip code and adjust itself to match your local sunrise and sunset times. So if you happen to be stuck in a windowless office, you can at least crack open a cold one and watch the sun set over your desktop.



Having just installed Tea House, I have to say it makes the thing feel much more like my Yahoo home page ;-)

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