Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware
Use Google gadgets in the OS X Dashboard
by Jordan Running Oct 6th 2006 at 6:15PM
The other day Chris Gilmer reported that it's now possible to embed Google gadgets intended for Google Personalized Home on any web page. A company called Mesa Dynamics has capitalized on this ability with a free utility called Amnesty Generator, which lets you use any Google web gadget on Apple's Dashboard. All you have to do is copy the gadget's HTML code from Google and paste it into the program, and a brand new widget is created for you. Hooray for wrappers. Mesa also makes a couple other free Dashboard-related apps that let you run Dashboard widgets as stand-alone apps or a screen saver.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
