gadgets/widgets
Gadgets/Widgets displays web- and other content in a small frame.
They appear on your computer's desktop or in your web-browser. An universe of download-plattforms provides gadgets for download (similar to the app store, but all for free).

NZZ Online Gadget (Google Desktop)
Sample Apple Widget

Info
There are two main types of gadgets:
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Desktop Gadgets
=>run on your Windows-Desktop or in the Mac OSX Dashboard -
Web Gadgets
=>run on any website (embedded) or typically on your iGoogle homepage
Actually, I provide the following plattforms:
Desktop Gadgets
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Google Desktop Gadgets
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Windows Vista/Windows 7 Sidebar Gadgets
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Apple Mac OS Dashboard Widgets
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Yahoo! Widgets
Web Gadgets
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iGoogle / OpenSocial
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Netvibes
Please let me know, if your desired plattform is not on the list.
- on your own website
- on official websites of Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo!
- on third-party websites (there a lot of sites providing gadgets for various plattforms)
Wikipedia Article about Gadgets
Customer Projects
Radio Energy Zürich is a radiostation in Zurich and belongs to the Radio Energy (NRJ) Group (French, Europewide).
I developed a very cool radio player, based on Adobe Flash for Google Desktop, Windows Sidebar and Mac OS Dashboard.
The gadget offers numerous music channels, plays the stream and shows current album/title.
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Download directly from Radio Energy Zurich website: http://www.energy.ch/zurich/inside/empfang/gadgets/
"Schweizer Fernsehen" (=>Swiss National Television) is the national radio and television company here in Switzerland.
I realized a couple of gadgets for the following plattforms:
- iGoogle
- Google Desktop
- Windows Vista/Windows 7-Sidebar
- Apple Mac OS Dashboard
Functionality
- news, sports, glanz und gloria
- sport-liveticker
- weather forecast
- tv-program
- video-clips
Example of the embedded iGoogle gadget
Here's the live embedded iGoogle gadget. Use the "add" button to add it to your personal iGoogle page.
NZZ Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a very common Swiss daily newspaper.
I developed gadgets for iGoogle and Google Desktop. An iPhone Web App also exists.
Example of an embedded iGoogle gadget
Here's the live embedded iGoogle gadget. Use the "add" button to add it to your personal iGoogle page.
more infos on customer gadget projects:







