Google Gadgets Beta for Mac
Google has released a beta version of Google Gadgets for Mac. Google's Mac Blog provides some details about the release from Mike Pinkerton.
Google's "Gadgets" are mini applications similar to Apple's own Dashboard Widgets. Google's Gadgets for Mac are now integrated and installable into Apple's Dashboard in Mac OS X. This makes them functionally indistinguishable from Dashboard Widgets.
Google Gadgets comes integrated with Google Desktop, a desktop search application also available from Google.
This feature brings hundreds of existing Google Gadgets to Dashboard. You can add fun gadgets (such as bowling, virtual flower pot, or YouTube), useful gadgets (weather maps, driving directions, and news), and others that offer daily wisdom for the ages (Confucius, horoscopes, and even a joke of the day!). These gadgets look and behave just like any other Dashboard widget, so you don't have to learn anything new.
Google's "Gadgets" are mini applications similar to Apple's own Dashboard Widgets. Google's Gadgets for Mac are now integrated and installable into Apple's Dashboard in Mac OS X. This makes them functionally indistinguishable from Dashboard Widgets.
Google Gadgets comes integrated with Google Desktop, a desktop search application also available from Google.
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55 months ago
nice to have a large repository of widgets/gadgets for people who use dashboard. I personally never really got into the whole dashboard thing.
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55 months ago
So are both Spotlight and Google Search whirring away indexing all the same stuff slowing down my Mac and taking up space with two sets of index files? Or does this either turn off or suggest you turn off Spotlight?
55 months ago
All those gadgets sound cool, but remind me again why I would want Google desktop on Leopard?
55 months ago
nice to have a large repository of widgets/gadgets for people who use dashboard. I personally never really got into the whole dashboard thing.
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I know what you mean, I was excited to get it, I set up all kinds of cool widgets when I first got it, and I never ever use it.
55 months ago
I wonder if this is going to bugger up my machine? I'd rather just install native widgets- this sounds like some sort of emulation layer to get gadgets to look like widgets. In general I am very much not in favor of all these little bolt-on enhancements, toolbars, etc. that folks like Google, Yahoo and others come up with. Who needs another possible way for their OS to become unstable.
55 months ago
I know what you mean, I was excited to get it, I set up all kinds of cool widgets when I first got it, and I never ever use it.
I'm the opposite...thought it would be useless, now I have a calculator, su doku, two games, dictionary, three webclips and the translation widget...
55 months ago
ill try it, but if it picks up my marked as not indexed content it's sooo going.
55 months ago
I use them now and again, but only a select few. Currency converter, weather and calculator is pretty much it.
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