New! Themes for your google homepage!

[ForumBot]

Little things like this make me giddy. I've had a Google Homepage for a while now, and yesterday they rolled out some themes to spice up the boring ol' green and white. (look up in the top right corner, if you have one)

I love how this thing updates to whatever the weather is. Right now my little fox is bathing in the not-so-light and the sun's right where it should be. Too cute!

[Man With a Cat]

Those are more than a day old, I've been watching the weather at my bus stop for a week or two at least now. But they are pretty neat, I agree.

When it snows, there's a little penguin on the bench, and when it rains, one of the people there is in a wet suit and flippers.

[Vision of Love]

Cute! Now if only they could integrate Google News into the Google Homepage, I'd go back.

[Baron Greenback]

Originally Posted by Vision of Love

Cute! Now if only they could integrate Google News into the Google Homepage, I'd go back.

You can - look in the homepage content directory.

[parsnip]

Why does my weather theme have a snowman in a yard of green grass?

[Vision of Love]

Originally Posted by Struan

You can - look in the homepage content directory.

I was actually looking to have the content looking more like my Google News page but I am not getting such results. What I like from Google News is that it provides a headline with news links under it to different online periodicals, so I can choose which article I prefer to read.

Unless I am doing it wrong.

[Baron Greenback]

Originally Posted by Vision of Love

I was actually looking to have the content looking more like my Google News page but I am not getting such results. What I like from Google News is that it provides a headline with news links under it to different online periodicals, so I can choose which article I prefer to read.

Ah, right. The Google News plugin for the customised homepage isn't as fully featured as that. It just provides one link per story.

[Missy2U]

Thanks, man! This is cool. I just updated mine.

[Savannah]

It's pretty! I have the beach theme now. I do love Google, despite the fact that it occasionally scares me.

[nashiitashii]

I also have the Fox themed page. What I think is cute is that we're both eating lunch right now, and so is the frog on the other side of the page! It's very squee.

[susan]

They're pretty, but despite trying a variety of local zip codes they do not "dynamically change" as promised--rather, they do, but not in logical relation to my time zone. Right this minute (1:57 AM) "beach" shows a mid-morning sun. If I restart one of them it gives me an accurate time analogue, but if I were to come back to Google later it would be off. Ideas?