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I got some requests back to the version 4.00 of Jello Dashboard for digital clocks and gadgets into the homepage. Later, as I was coding for the new version and created the new homepage I though of running a couple of tests using google gadgets without any real expectations.
Then for a strange reason and despite of Outlook’s web browsing limitations some gadgets worked!
After working with some more widgets I have found some ways of using almost any gadget from google’s repository. So you can safely add an Web page widget into your Jello Dashboard homepage and paste the following URLs to their web address parameter:
Clock and date:
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.canbuffi.de/gadgets/clock/clock.xml
Word Clocks
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.ljmsite.com/google/gadgets/worldclocks.xml&up_messageid=0&up_mode=ana2&up_servertime=1&up_meetingplanner=1&up_digiformat=12&up_digifontsize=14&up_analogformat=12&up_dateformat=date&up_showseconds=1&up_tz1=UTC&up_tz1name=Clock%201&up_tz2=UTC&up_tz2name=Clock%202&up_tz3=&up_tz3name=Clock%203&up_tz4=&up_tz4name=Clock%204&up_tz5=&up_tz5name=Clock%205&up_tz6=&up_tz6name=Clock%206&up_tz7=&up_tz7name=Clock%207&up_tz8=&up_tz8name=Clock%208&up_tz9=&up_tz9name=Clock%209&up_width=10000&synd=open&w=320&h=300&title=__MSG_Title__&lang=en&country=ALL&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999
Dictionary.com search:
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://rmicka5478.googlepages.com/dictionary.xml&up_boxcolor=%23c0c0c0&up_textcolor=%23000000&synd=open&w=320&h=100&title=Dictionary.com&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999
You can test any widgets copying the code from the Google gadgets directory keeping in mind the following rules and limitations:
- If gadgets use any pipe characters into their parameters they cannot be used
- Gadgets using cookies cannot be used. Cookies are blocked by Outlook
- In some cases, not all user defined settings can be used (it depends on the resulted url)
So select the desired google gadget, press the Get the code button and go to the HTML code field.
Copy it to the clipboard and paste it into any text editor
Now you got something like this:
<script src=”http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.matt.org/modules/GoogleClock.xml&up_vsize=240px&synd=open&w=320&h=200&title=Google+Clock&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999&output=js”></script>
Then strip the <script src=” characters from the beginning of code and the &output=js”></script> from the end.
http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.matt.org/modules/GoogleClock.xml&up_vsize=240px&synd=open&w=320&h=200&title=Google+Clock&border=%23ffffff%7C3px%2C1px+solid+%23999999
Try pasting the remaining code into a Jello web page widget and see what happens. Some gadgets won’t accept any user settings (the URL part after the first &). In that case you can try removing all of user settings having a lot smaller URL (eg http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?url=http://www.matt.org/modules/GoogleClock.xml)
Now choose your favorite gadgets and experiment. Who knows? Maybe you will be able to use it inside Jello Dashboard!
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