Convert Google Gadgets into Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets!

Posted on March 26, 2007 at 7:51 am

If you’re trying to find cool gadgets for your Vista desktop and you can’t, well that might be because there really just are not that many! Yes, there are a TON of Windows Live gadgets, but most of those are crazy obsucure gadgets that no one wants anyway! Microsoft only has a handful of cool gadgets for Vista and third party gadgets are being developed, but will take time!

But Google has come along and has some very nice time-wasting gadgets like Wikipedia, jokes reciepe of the day, People magazine headlines, etc that are great, but only work with Google Desktop or with your personazlied version of the Google homepage. So wouldn’t it be nice if you can convert the Google gadgets into Vista ones!?!

Well, thankfully a company by the name of Mesa Dynamics has done just that with a free piece of software that merges the two together. It’s called Amnesty Generator for Vista and it requires that the user take the HTML of the Google gadget and paste it into the appliation, which then performs the conversion. It sounds like it could be tough, but don’t worry, you don’t have to know any HTML and they have a guide on their web site to walk you through it. Actually, when you go to download the gadget off of Google’s web site here, you’ll see a text link called “View Source”. This is the HTML code you would copy into the application.

The app even comes in a Mac OS X flavor so you can generate Mac sidebar gadgets also! Once you give your gadget a name, you pick an image for it and the program will automatically add the gadget into the Vista gadget gallery. So give it a shot and start using the gadgets that really interest you!

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20070318/tc_cmp/198000885

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