Wiley Google Business Solutions All-in-One For Dummies 978-0-470-38687-3 ユーザーズマニュアル
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Chapter 1: Introduction
to Google Gadgets
to Google Gadgets
In This Chapter
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Taking a look at the available Google Gadgets
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Assembling the gadgets into your own personal creation
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Making gadgets work for you
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Putting Google on your desktop
G
oogle’s capability to supply and configure information is what makes it
the dominant force on the Internet that it is. In addition to the search
the dominant force on the Internet that it is. In addition to the search
functions and applications Google provides, it offers the ability to custom-
ize and tweak that information and these services into exactly what the user
wants. This information isn’t just available on Google’s standard home page,
though. Google offers information and functionality through a series of small
programs called gadgets, which users can discover, modify, and embed in
their own home pages and elsewhere. Better still, these users can create
their own gadgets and spread them to the home pages of other users.
ize and tweak that information and these services into exactly what the user
wants. This information isn’t just available on Google’s standard home page,
though. Google offers information and functionality through a series of small
programs called gadgets, which users can discover, modify, and embed in
their own home pages and elsewhere. Better still, these users can create
their own gadgets and spread them to the home pages of other users.
Exploring the Gadget Directory
Whether you’re using an individual account or a Google Apps domain start
page, you have an impressive selection of Google Gadgets available to you.
These gadgets can be installed anywhere on your page just by dragging and
dropping, and you can arrange them into different tabs as you want. First,
though, let’s take a look at what’s available in the main directory.
page, you have an impressive selection of Google Gadgets available to you.
These gadgets can be installed anywhere on your page just by dragging and
dropping, and you can arrange them into different tabs as you want. First,
though, let’s take a look at what’s available in the main directory.
The Gadget directory may look a little different, depending on whether you
access it through iGoogle or Google Apps. Still, the same gadgets are avail-
able to either view. Click the Add Stuff link on the homepage of either ser-
vice to see the screens shown in Figures 1-1 and 1-2. You can also point your
browser to http://google.com/ig/directory to see what’s available.
access it through iGoogle or Google Apps. Still, the same gadgets are avail-
able to either view. Click the Add Stuff link on the homepage of either ser-
vice to see the screens shown in Figures 1-1 and 1-2. You can also point your
browser to http://google.com/ig/directory to see what’s available.
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