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Add Google Gadgets to Gmail

Here's the trick to make any google gadget, a gmail gadget. All you really need to do is add the .xml tag to the end of the gadget and have it easily transform. Give it a try.


Here is more information below:

There are hundreds of different gadgets around the web. Some web services (such as Remember the Milk) have created their own and supply you with a URL. If you want other gadgets have a look at the iGoogle gadgets directory. To add a gadget from the iGoogle gadgets directory navigate to a gadget of your choice and copy everything after the “url=” tag in the address bar. For example, the Official Wikipedia Gadget for iGoogle has the following URL:
http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=gadgets&url=www.google.com/ig/modules/wikipedia.xml
To add this gadget to Gmail simply copy the portion after “url=”, i.e.:
www.google.com/ig/modules/wikipedia.xml
And paste it into the gadget URL box in Gmail