Michael Sync

All screenshots of Google Theme (iGoogle)

25 Jul, 2007 Google

I believe that all of you already knew about iGoogle (formally known as “Google Personalized Home Page”) and its gorgeous themes. The interesting thing is that those theme can be changed dynamically based on either local time or weather.

There are six different themes as picture above in iGoogle. ( Actually, there are 7 themes available but “Winter scape” is a hidden theme which can’t be directly accessed. ) All of those themes are divided into 2 categories such as Weathe-based theme and Time-based theme. The weather-based theme is a theme which shows the different design based on local weather condition. For example, we will see raining theme if it’s raining in our location. The time-based theme does the same but based on local time. For example, we will see night-view theme at night.

Weather-base theme

BusStop

Time-base theme

Beach
City Scape
Sweet Dreams
Tea House
Seasonal Scape

The BusStop theme is based on local weather condition while all others are on time.

The reason why I write this post is that I wanna share something that I found on iGoogle last weekend. The story started when I was eagerly to know how many pictures included in each theme. I didn’t know how to find out for those images. The first flash I got is that Google Gadget are created based on XML file. So, I believed that I will get the path of those images when I got the link of XML file. Then, I googled a lit for that and I found the list of xml files as below.

XML file of Google Theme

Images of Spring Scape

3.14 AM

6 AM

8 AM

10 AM

Noon

2 PM

4 PM

6 PM

8 PM

10 PM

Midnight

2 AM

4 AM

Images of Tea House theme

3.14 AM

6 AM

8 AM

10 AM

Noon

2 PM

4 PM

6 PM

8 PM

10 PM

Midnight

2 AM

4 AM

Images of Beach theme

3.14 AM

6 AM

10 AM

Noon

2 PM

4 PM

6 PM

8 PM

10 PM

Midnight

2 AM

4 AM

Images of City Scape

3.14 AM

6 AM

8 AM

10 AM

Noon

2 PM

4 PM

6 PM

8 PM

10 PM

Midnight

2 AM

4 AM

Images of Sweet Dreams theme

3.14 AM

6 AM

Images of Winter Scape

3.14 AM

6 AM

8 AM

10 AM

Noon

2 PM

4PM

6PM

8 PM

10PM

Midnight

2 AM

4 AM

Images of Bus stop theme

Cloudy

Mostly Cloudy

Hazy

Foggy

Snowy

Flurries

Icy

Windy

Rainy

Stromy

Thunder

Yeah. I’m done.. Those are the images from Google Theme.

The following code is cool trick that I got from this link. Go to XML file (that I already mentioned above). Find out the path of CSS file. Type the code with the path of CSS file that you wanna changed.

javascript:void(document.getElementById("ext_css").href="/ig/skins/winterscape/winterscape_3.14am.css");

What do you think? do you like it??

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15 Comments so far »

Alvin said

am July 25 2007 @ 11:39 pm

Hi Mike,
First time I visit your site (got the link from Melody’s shoutbox).

Thanks for the info on iGoogle themes. First time I heard of iGoogle. I’m rather new to blogging… I started only in the May of this year.

Can these themes be used on Blogger (Blogspot), which also belongs to the Google group? I’m looking for a nice background for my plain blog
Cheers!
Alvin
Shwesin said

am July 26 2007 @ 1:47 am

yap.
i love those themes..
i really excited when i look it and i found something change..
really thanks for finding all themes…
gr8!!!

(i.o.u)
Michael Sync said

am July 26 2007 @ 12:34 pm

>>Can these themes be used on Blogger (Blogspot), which also belongs to the Google group? I’m looking for a nice background for my plain blog

I think it’s not for blogger. AFAIK, those themes are especially created for iGoogle (also known as personalized homepage).

I have been to your blog. your blog looks nice.. very clean and elegant theme.

For me, I’m still happy with the default theme without making any customization … I think that it’s not really important to customize the theme. The most important thing (at least for me) is content.. if you are writing nice and valuable contents which are useful for everybody then people will come and visit to your blog..
pstephensen said

am September 29 2007 @ 3:56 pm

love your themes
Cleo said

am October 14 2007 @ 2:37 pm

Hey, just curious on how to get seasonal scape. And wondering whether google will make a theme for holidays (like for Halloween, Easter, Forth of July, Christmas ect..)
tamzel said

am November 13 2007 @ 7:27 am

why can’t I find any winterscape theme on my igoogle? does it have been discontinued?
Michael Sync said

am November 13 2007 @ 8:25 am

does it have been discontinued?

maybe.. no idea.. Based on my research, the XML file (CSS and images) for that theme is still there. The option for selecting this theme is not available in iGoogle..

Thanks for visiting my blog, btw..
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am November 14 2007 @ 7:10 am

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am November 15 2007 @ 2:02 am

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jdawg said

am November 15 2007 @ 4:07 am

iGoogle’s themes are a great little way to spice up a homepage. making them dynamic? well, thats just the icing on the cake. What would be awesome is if they could make them all dynamic on multiple ranges like for weather, AND time,

would be neat
Michael Sync said

am November 15 2007 @ 4:23 am

Hi jdawg, thanks for your comment..

>>What would be awesome is if they could make them all dynamic on multiple ranges like for weather, AND time,

Actually, the Google already exported the user preferences so the developer who create the Google Gadget should get the color preferences and should change the things in their gadget.. Have you checked-out Google Clock Gadget? The color of this gadget change based on the user preferences.
Michael Sync » All screenshots of New Google Theme said

am November 29 2007 @ 10:56 am

[...] are based on either local-time or weather. (you can check the all screenshots of old google themes here.)Now, Google added five new themes and also introduces the new type of theme which is based on Day. [...]
Nevis said

am January 16 2008 @ 10:51 pm

Hi Michael,

Google has released new themes again.. Will you post all screenshots of those new themes?
Michael Sync said

am January 16 2008 @ 10:58 pm

Hi Nevis,

Yeah. I know that… I will post all screenshots of those new themes soon? As you know, it take some time to capture all screenshots… anyway, I will post them soon.. Please keep on watching my blog..
babydog said

am March 1 2008 @ 7:34 am

I absolutely love spring scape because of it’s friendly country theme and how it changes every few hours.