Posts Tagged ‘Gadgets’

Hamster Widget

December 16th, 2008

Check this out!

You can have a very useful pet hamster on your page.

from the aBowman site:

This lively pet hamster will keep you company throughout the day. Watch him run on his wheel, drink water, and eat the food you feed him by clicking your mouse. Click the center of the wheel to make him get back on it.

Found on aBowman via Stumbleupon

OAuth For Google Gadgets

December 4th, 2008

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What is OAuth?

“An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simpleand standard method from desktop and web applications”

And now you can use it with the Google Gadget Platform (iGoogle, Web Google Gadgets and Google Desktop) and that is a good thing because it means you now can rest easy that Google will not know of your data if you don`t want them too and because that also means you can do Mashlets of Google own Services Gadgets.

For more on this check out this post of David Meyer at CNET

Google adds OAuth to widget mashups

Google Gadgets Adapted To Nokia Internet Tablet

November 6th, 2008

Nokia got some very hardcore fans. and they also got hardcore fan that like Widgets. If you got a Nokia Internet Tablet and you miss your Google Gadgets. then you will be happy to know they have been ported to it.

Now you can have your Google Gadgets living with regular native maemo Widgets. not that you would know because from what i read they are not very good. so having some actually good Widgets is just what you was lacking and now you can have that.

Take a look

Google Gadgets for maemo (yes, this is a Linux Thing)

via Ars Technica

Remember The Milk Gadget For Gmail

November 6th, 2008

Remember The Milk

If you where one of those that liked the Google Gadgets For Gmail idea and wondered where you could get a To-Do List Gadget to put into Gmail. then you need the Remember The Milk To-Do List Gadget for Gmail. it is the very best you can ask for since RTM whole focus is on making good TO-DO Lists web apps and Widgets.

                                Remember The Milk gadget

Here is what it will let you do:

Review your upcoming tasks for the week
Add new tasks and edit existing ones
Easily complete and postpone tasks
Review your overdue tasks
Optionally show tasks with no due date
Display tasks from a particular list or
Smart List

Perfect if you live in your E-mail or it is the first and the last thing you do online. the explanations on how to get it can be seen in this post from the RTM blog:

RTM + Gmail gadget goodness

You can get the Google Gmail Gadget here

Remember The Milk To-Do List Gmail Gadget

Remember The Milk

via TC

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