Google Gadgets on your Dashboard
Posted by Rose Yao, Google Mac
team
A question everyone asked when we
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id="g8cr" >launched Google Desktop for the Mac was: where are
the gadgets? Today, we have an answer: they're in your
Dashboard! Now there's a new feature for Google Desktop,
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the Mac, which is ready to install. With this launch, we're
bringing hundreds of Google Gadgets to the Mac OS X platform. You
can take advantage of gadgets to do things like
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id="e86:" >nurture a virtual flower pot, or
id="h6m8" >even check your day's agenda
Not only that, the new Google Gadgets applications let you add
gadgets with one click and interact with them beside your Apple
widgets in Dashboard. There's an automatic update to the gadget
list each week, so you'll always have something new to look
forward to.
Watch the Gadget application in action:
Attention, gadget/widget developers: this launch makes it possible
for you to write your gadget once and have it run on a Mac, a PC,
and any webpage on the Internet. Learn more about
href="http://desktop.google.com/dev/crossplatform.html" >how to
write a cross platform gadget.
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