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Turn any web widget into a Vista Gadget

Slimy   on 06 February 2007 - 16:59 · 5 comments & 5832 views

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The Amnesty Generator for Windows is designed to easily convert any embeddable web site widget (including Google Gadgets) into a Vista Sidebar Gadget. Compared to Vista's Gadget library's relatively meager 275 gadgets, Google Gadgets for your web page, for example, currently sports over 3000 widgets. So basically, Vista's gadget library just grew from 275 to 275 plus 3000 plus whatever other web widgets you can find on the Internet. If this sounds familiar to OS X users, it is because Amnesty Generator is also available for Dashboard. The generator currently has a few bugs (particularly in the visual interface department), but overall it works fairly well.

Link: Amnesty Generator
News source: Life Hacker

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(1 reply) #1 xxdesmus on 06 Feb 2007 - 17:55
Doesn't quite work...I tried 3 Google gadgets and all 3 didn't work. (a gCal gadget, a clock gadget, and a weather gadget)...not exactly a great first impression.
#1.1 TurboTuna on 06 Feb 2007 - 18:10
I tried the same 3 you did, worked fine here.
#2 ShawnB on 06 Feb 2007 - 19:31
Vista gadgets are just html in a zip file. Rename any Vista gadget from .gadget to .zip and you'll see for yourself. Nice tool
#3 saddino on 06 Feb 2007 - 19:35
Windows Vista Magazine already has a nice write up on how to use Amnesty Generator to embed tiny YouTube videos in your sidebar.
#4 barrygonewild on 07 Feb 2007 - 06:23
ill have to give this a try..

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