“Google will release a version of Google Desktop for the Mac tomorrow that lets users install gadgets — something previous versions didn’t support. At first I was skeptical — why would Mac users need a sidebar when they already have their dashboard? Well, it turns out there is no sidebar, and gadgets are installed into the dashboard,” Garett Rogers blogs for ZDNet.
Rogers reports, “Until now, developers were forced to port their gadgets using tools like the Amnesty Generator if they wanted their work to run on a Mac — but that’s a thing of the past.”
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Elinor Mills blogs for CNET, “‘For users, this means they can install hundreds of Google Gadgets with just one click and run them in Dashboard. They can also use Gadgets to enhance their personal Web sites by copying and pasting the HTML into the page’s source code,’ Google says.”
Mills reports, “And now developers can create one set of gadgets that will work on both PC and Mac platforms.”
Full article here.
