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Google Gadgets now cross-platform

by XXChristine Lyons on Dec 1, 2007 at 03:01 AM

Google Weather Sphere Screenshot

Google Gadgets is the mini-application created and toted by Google offering a wide variety of content to their users.  Quick access to items such as news feeds and individualized to-do lists, Google Gadgets have quickly become a great innovation that individuals rely on in their day-to-day life activities.

Now, using Google Gadgets has become even easier for Mac and PC users. Mac users can now conveniently run their Google Gadgets along with their Apple Widgets in Dashboard.  Running these applications side by side allows users to have the same items on their Mac, iGoogle pages and the ever-helpful Google Desktop Sidebar.  This helps users to create a centralized and exceptionally efficient Dashboard area on their computers.  For example, some aspects that can be capitalized upon from the Dashboard with the Gadgets include YouTube, the video site owned by Google, Virtual Flower Pot and the Weather Globe, which is a unique and interesting 3-D weather sphere that appears in the Dashboard to show users different weather conditions.

As developers create one particular gadget to work with both Mac’s and PC’s, the advantages are many.  With just one simple click, users are now able to install upwards of hundreds of Google Gadgets.  Better still, these can be run in the Dashboard of Mac computers and will also have the potential to allow individuals utilizing the Google Gadgets to enhance their own personal web sites.

Via [News.com]

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