iGoogle is a personal homepage for your browser that can be customized in many different ways by adding or removing modules with varied online services. Now iGoogle Sidebar enables you to always have this personalized webpage opened in your browser's sidebar.
You can have the latest news headlines, weather forecast, Google calendar, direct access to your Gmail inbox and many other tools, each one of them with their own settings. They can be arranged in any order just by dragging and dropping them with the mouse. Depending on the sidebar's width, you may need to reduce its font size or hide tabs if you don't want to have a messed up layout.
Of course, this extension implies giving up some precious web browsing space. On the upside, iGoogle Sidebar offers such a wide variety of modules to customize it that you may find this sacrifice worth it.
