Playing with gadgets

Widgets & gadgets done! I've been playing round a bit with gadgets through Google. I tried adding a couple of things to my blog which was OK. I found a very pretty fish tank which looked nice, only it added minutes to my page loading time so I deleted it pronto.

I also had a go at making my own widget through DigitalNZ. i found this to be really fiddly and not terribly intuitive. It took a lot of playing around to get it working. I've put it on my blog so if you want to have a play just go for it. It links into CCL's image databases.

Then it was onto experimenting with gadgets in iGoogle. If you've read any of my other posts you'll probably already know that I'm a fan of iGoogle and use it regularly. I set myself the goal of finding a gadget that was actually useful and looked good too. And I succeeded! See the screen shot below - I found a birthday gadget where you can see how many days it is to each birthday, have a small present planning list for everyone and the like. Its very cool and I think it might just stay on my pages. Fun fun.


So that is week 2 done. I enjoyed it a lot and found some new and interesting things to play with. I particularly like Google Reader and think I will keep on using this. Next week brings on social networking and info connect discovery which I'm particularly looking forward to. More on that next week!