Wednesday, September 1, 2010

EXTRA-iGoogle Screenshots

iGoogle on the Web is a customizable web site home page. One can put a variety of information directly on the iGoogle home page - surprisingly quickly!  The various pieces of information on the iGoogle homepage are known as mashup gadgets.  Screenshots allow users to quickly see information at a glance.   Taking a screenshot is easily accomplished with a MacBook Pro.  For the entire page, sequentially press and hold the following keys:  Command, Shift, 3.  Upon release of these three keys, a screen shot is placed on the MacBook Pro desktop.  The default format for this save is a .png.  Merely clicking the .png will appear as follows in one's blog:

file:///Users/mary-annferree/Desktop/Screen%20shot%202010-09-01%20at%204.44.40%20PM.png

which isn't of much use to the blog viewer who does not have access to the MacBook Pro desktop where the screenshot is saved.  Instead, using the link to import a photo on the blog's upper menu bar brings in the .png as seen below.





Figure 1. View of the home page when an iGoogle account is set up

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