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Convert web widgets into Vista sidebar gadgets
by Ryan Carter Feb 20th 2007 at 4:00PM
Amnesty makes the process very quick, but beware that most Google gadgets are huge and don't make great gadgets for reasons of size. I suggest resizing your widget on the "Add to your page" config page. You can change the border, the width and height, as if you were going to put it on your own site. It helps to play around with sizes a bit to get the optimum size for a sidebar gadget. Once you are happy, simply click the "get the Code" button on the Google config page and paste the code into Amnesty.
Amnesty will automatically pick up the dimensions and title of the widget code, but you can change them before clicking generate if you like. You can also add an icon image to display in the gadgets panel. Once you hit generate, the gadget will be in your Vista panel of gadgets. Simply drag and drop like any other gadget to add it to the sidebar.
I found that many created gadgets still end up being in the way on the sidebar, so I right-clicked on the gadget's handle and selected "detach from sidebar" to make the gadget float over my desktop. The Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) does a better job of this with it's mock-expose interface, but then again you can't very well add Google gadgets to it either.
Take it or leave it, some gadgets don't work as well as others, but it is nice to know it is possible. This is something that I will be playing with more in coming days.
Thanks to Joe from gadgettutorials.com for leading us to this app. Joe has a great start on some tips to create your own gadgets, so check it out if you get a chance.
I found that many created gadgets still end up being in the way on the sidebar, so I right-clicked on the gadget's handle and selected "detach from sidebar" to make the gadget float over my desktop. The Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) does a better job of this with it's mock-expose interface, but then again you can't very well add Google gadgets to it either.
Take it or leave it, some gadgets don't work as well as others, but it is nice to know it is possible. This is something that I will be playing with more in coming days.
Thanks to Joe from gadgettutorials.com for leading us to this app. Joe has a great start on some tips to create your own gadgets, so check it out if you get a chance.
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Asher said 7:26PM on 2-20-2007
This would be really cool!
if I had Vista
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LisKiller said 12:06AM on 2-21-2007
Got it last week from here
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=11911
You can add youtube videos also onto your sidebar. :D
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