Google

We have a winner!!

Sorry Gert

Also see: http://www.bdeferme.net/blog/2008/08/gert-paradize

A nice post about google gadgets:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/06/16/install-google-gadgets-for-linux-on-ubuntu/

And me using them:

The image is clicable clickable for a full-format version ;-).

P.S. A few features that I think should be in google-gadgets (and I think screenlets have them!):

• Make gadgets sticky (show up on all desktops)
• Have the option to hide some gadgets in the compiz gadget layer, some not (maybe create 2 window classes? So you can choose 1 of them to be in the gadget layer...)

UPDATE

Tom explains how to integrate google gadgets into the screenlets application. This allows you to have the 2 missing features of google gadgets (by using screenlets) AND using the official/non-official google gadgets.

Anyway, I do hope to see a new version of google gadgets soon (it is currently in beta) because it looks a little bit more slick to me then the screenlets-manager application :-).

A cool concept, and funny to play with, use google shell-style:

http://www.goosh.org/

After some time using liferea I switched to google reader for a number of reasons including:

Google Reader looked nice, it had a nice user experience, it's accessible from anywhere and not just from one workspace, ...

A while ago I learned from a collegue (gert) that there was a nice package in ubuntu called 'prism' with some other packages like:

• prism-google-reader
• prism-google-calendar
• prism-google-analytics
• ...

Prism is more or less a fully capable web browser but without all the fancy stuff, no plugins, no addons, no bookmarks, no nothing. This makes prism really fast and it is nicely integrated on the desktop as you can see in the next screenshot (though the fact I like the most is that it's far more faster reading posts then google reader in firefox).

Prism is a mozilla project (just like firefox, thunderbird and all the other mozilla projects) and you can find more info at the mozilla site.