I have a black sweatshirt hanging in my closet, sent to my by Google, that says “Gadget API Guru” in big white letters on the back. Jealous? No? Okay, then…
They sent it to me because I am actively involved in the gadget developer’s forum, and I write gadgets for iGoogle. I think they are interesting little bits to develop, and I find them extremely useful on my iGoogle page. So I thought I would link to some of my gadgets here in case someone wants to give them a try.
4 New Quotes of the Day Every Day
Displays 4 new quotes of the day every day with the quotes and authors easily visible. Once you’ve read them, you can clear it so they are hidden until new ones are available!
U.S. Financial Market Summary – Stock Market, Dow Jones, Nasdaq, S&P 500 Ticker
Show a short summary of the US financial market, with current market values for the DOW, Nasdaq, and S&P 500. Info taken from live Google Finance and updated as often as you want!
Super Digg – Links Directly To Stories
A Customizable Digg feed using the Digg API to give you full control and links directly to the story, not to the Digg page. You can also mark all the entries as ‘read’ and clear your list so you only see new items. Very configurable and customizable!
RSS Feed Customizer: Improve the look, layout, and functionality of your iGoogle RSS feeds!
Customize the display of all RSS feeds in your iGoogle page so they take up less room, look better, and have addded functionality.
Google Groups Reader
Google Groups Reader. Read any Google Group via this gadget! Groups by subject, filters, auto-refresh, custom title, many styling options, etc. Makes reading Google Groups via Gadget very easy!
Gadget Monitor – Keep Track Of Your Gadgets
This gadget allows you to monitor up to 10 of your gadgets to check for new users and new comments. If you are a gadget author and want to keep tabs on your users, this gadget will be useful to you.
Latest Viral Videos from ViralVideoChart.com
See the new viral videos hitting the web before your friends and family even send them to you! This gadget uses the feed from ViralVideoChart.com, which monitors videos posted to web sites and blogs to identify those that are becoming popular and ‘going viral’.
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Is this supported?
RSS Feed Customizer: Doesn’t appear to hide RSS feeds with No Content for those gadgets that allow me to enter a generic RSS URL. Ex: If I add gadtet “Custom RSS Feed”, which appears to be yours, specific a feed and press the Clear button (inside, not on the title bar), the gadget window is clear, but the gadget still appears eventhough ‘RSS Feed Customizer’ says to hid read feeds. The title bar decoration doesn’t apper like it does for gadgets that are pre-configured for a specific feed.
The RSS Feed Customizer gadget only works with “plain” RSS feeds in iGoogle. Meaning, if you go to “Add Content” and just put in an RSS feed address. If you use a specific gadget (even mine) to read RSS feeds then the RSS Feed Customizer will not interact with it because it doesn’t have privileges to do so. I recommend using plain RSS feeds on your iGoogle page and then using the RSS Feed Customizer on top of that.
Matt,
I have 3 gadgets in the iGoogle directory that are busted due to recent changes in the iGoogle environment. The feeds are called with “_IG_FetchFeedAsJSON” BUT they never load. The user only sees “Loading…” under the 4 tabs.
I tried registering this in the iGoogle Developers Forum: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/629be11a8ef39e8c/341f32f62afa569a#341f32f62afa569a
Have also emailed Daniel L., the original author of the code, describing the problem and asking for help. No answer yet, and I need a work-around fast!
So my question for you is this: is there some example iGoogle Gadget code of a feed reader that works in the new iGoogle environment? This needs to be a feed reader that I customize with my local news feeds for TodayinAustin. I can let go of the 4-Tabs version if I just had a simple .xml file for loading 1 feed.
I would then replace my 4-Tab .xml code with something simpler that works for 1 feed.
Can you please give me a push in the right direction? My code is here: http://todayinaustin.com/gadget/volumeone.xml
Thanks. Much appreciated,
dianaP
Austin, TX