Google Gadgets - 3 comments

If you have a customised Google Home Page, you'll be familiar with Gadgets: mini Google calendars, mail views, maps, puzzles, clocks, timers, and so forth.

Well, it turns out that it's surprisingly easy to create new ones. The following simple Recently Recommended (yes, that again) gadget took no more than half-a-day from start to finish (which includes me wasting an hour or two on a rather dumb first version). It doesn't auto-update (though it could), but it does at least give you the latest each time you refresh your page. I'm sure you can think of other, more interesting candidates for gadget-isation.



Click the button below to add this to your own Google page.



Please test gently at first. I'll submit the gadget to Google's directory if all goes well, so please don't publicise until then. Do let me know if you see anything weird.

Thanks to everyone whose kind donations have seen their blogs immortalised in the screenshot. Only kidding - that's an unadulterated list, but it's a hassle to recreate the images, so you're stuck with them for the time being!