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Cozygames iGoogle gadget

2009-03-07T20:32:00.000-08:00

Access and play more than 500 casual online games by installing the Cozy Games gadget. Build your favorites game list for quick access to those games you liked and had fun most.

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Cozygames gadget screenshots

Canvas view

Live Demo

Adding the Cozygames gadget

In your iGoogle homepage :

Add this gadget to your Google Homepage

In your Webpage :

Add this gadget to your Webpage

In your Blogger :

Step 1 : Go to your Blogger's "Layout > Page Elements"
Step 2 : Click on link "Add a Gadget" in the Page Element you want to add the Gadget
Step 3 : Click on link "Add your own" in the "Add a Gadget" Popup Window.
Copy and paste the following Christmas Gadget URL in the textbox :

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/101121046269554586314/cozygames_ig.xml

Then Click on button "ADD BY URL"

Merry Christmas for iGoogle and Web gadget

2008-11-13T08:04:00.000-08:00

Customize your Christmas Wall and SHARE it with all your friends and relatives to wish them a Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas Wall screenshot

Live Demo

Adding the Christmas gadget

In your iGoogle homepage :

Add this gadget to your Google Homepage

In your Webpage :

Add this gadget to your Webpage

In your Blogger :

Step 1 : Go to your Blogger's "Layout > Page Elements"
Step 2 : Click on link "Add a Gadget" in the Page Element you want to add the Gadget
Step 3 : Click on link "Add your own" in the "Add a Gadget" Popup Window.
Copy and paste the following Christmas Gadget URL in the textbox :

http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/110375703692064397938/MerryChristmas.xml

Then Click on button "ADD BY URL"
Step 3 : Customize your settings for your Christmas Gadget and save.

Halloween Myspace App

2008-10-24T10:39:00.000-07:00

Customize this Halloween wall to be viewed in your myspace profile to wish to everyone a Happy Halloween

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Halloween MySpace App screenshot

Halloween Wall settings

The settings are the same as for the Halloween Gadget for iGoogle and the web.

The main difference is that your Halloween message is displayed on a tomb on the right and that the settings are changed in the Canvas view where you will see a list of thumbnails of the options that you can choose from.

Halloween Gadget

2008-10-18T08:12:00.000-07:00

Customize your Halloween Wall and SHARE it with all your friends and relatives to wish them a Happy Halloween and show them your DEVILISH nature

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Halloween Wall screenshot

Halloween Wall settings

Scene :

DeadTree
Graveyard
HauntedHouse

Halloween Monster :

Coffin : See a Skeleton popping out of the Coffin
Devil : my favorite monster I really like the fire on his head.
Ghost : Scary ghost.. Not for sensible souls...
GreenMonster : Girl or boy? Looks more like a She to me..
Pumpkins : 2 glowing Halloween pumpkins
TrickOrTreat : Little ghost costumes asking for Halloween candies
Witch : Witch preparing her wicked potion (or poison??) in the hot chaudron

Decoration :

Bats : Flying (stilled ) bats
BlackCat : Just dont get into this cat's way..
CatOnBroom : Cat stole Witch's broom for a ride.
Crow : Crooowwwww...
DevilDancing : Little red devil dancing
Ghost : Little ghost with little Boohh..
Owl : Black owl with red eyes
Skull : No scary skull
Spiderweb : Sticky deadly spiderweb
UFO : Aliens??
WitchOnBroom : The traditional witch flying on broom

Your Halloween Message :

Write your Spooky Halloween wish and message to your loved ones and relatives.

Live Demo

Cool Halloween links and goodies

Check those cool Halloween Cat Boxes that u can build urself

Development issues in the Birthday Gifts Wall gadget

2008-10-03T10:50:00.000-07:00

Here are some of the development issues encountered while creating the shareable and collaborative Birthday Gifts Wall google gadget and how they have been overcome. Hope that this will help those who face with these similar issues.

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Birthday Gifts Wall gadget screenshot

Check a live demo of the Birthday Gifts Wall gadget here

1) Google Gadget Editor's reopening xml issue

I was editing some codes in the Google Gadget Editor and then click on the Save option to save the modifications. But then i changed to another tab in my igoogle homepage. After which i returned to the tab containing the Google Gadget Editor. But when i reopened the Birthday Gifts Wall gadget source, hopefully i noticed that the source prior to the modifications that i just made was loaded instead of the recently saved version containing my modifications. This is very irritating specially if you thought you opened the latest version and continue to do more modifs and then click on Save again to finally find that you have lost the previous modifications. That's why when reopening any file in the Google Gadget Editor, i always open the file twice coz on the second attempt it always load the latest updated version. For your information, i use firefox to edit my codes coz in safari (including google chrome) it just wont load any file and in IE6 (ya am still with version6) it seems to freeze a bit when loading a gadget source.

2) Use <center> tag rather than CSS for centering gadget's content

At first i was trying to center the Birthday Gifts Wall content using CSS but in vain. Fortunately, i remembered the <center> tag that i was using long ago. And it works.

3) Dont edit uploaded HTML file in Google Gadget Editor

You can upload an HTML file which you may require for your gadget. But beware not to edit your HTML file in the Google Gadget Editor coz when you do a Save it will save it as an XML file instead and as a result will not show up in your browser as expected. Always edit the HTML file on your pc then reupload the file again.

4) Popup Window calling window.opener functions

If you have installed the Birthday Gifts Wall gadget, you will notice that a Popup window is shown when displaying an offered Birthday Gift image or when offering a gift. At first i uploaded an HTML file which was opened by the window.open function. For showing an offered gift this was working fine. But the problem came when i had to do the add gift part where i needed to call a javascript function defined in the caller window ie. the window containing the gadget. To call the javascript function, you use the window.opener.functiontobecalled in the HTML file. But the problem was that this can only works if both window have the same domain. Which was the the case coz the domain for my google homepage is "www.google.com" and that of the uploaded HTML file was "hosting.gmodules.com". So i finally have to do the document.write method to write directly into an empty popup window.

5) Use _IG_GetImageUrl instead of _IG_GetImage

Use the function _IG_GetImageUrl instead of _IG_GetImage coz the function _IG_GetImage is not yet implemented for the framework used to add gadget to the web or inside the Blogger widget. _IG_GetImage seems to be implemented only in the iGoogle framework. It was a real pain to debug this problem.

Happy Google Gadget Programming

Hope that these few tips above can be of some help to Google Gadget developers. Just stay tuned for some more gadgets to come.

Birthday Gifts Wall

2008-09-28T09:37:00.000-07:00

Customize your Birthday Cake for your loved ones or for yourself and SHARE it with all your friends and relatives to allow each of them to add their Birthday Gift image (This requires that the option "View and edit my content" is checked when sharing the gadget)

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Birthday Gifts Wall gadget screenshot

Birthday Gifts Wall gadget settings

Name :

Enter the name of the person who is celebrating his/her Birthday. The name will be displayed in the Birthday banner.

Banner :

balloons :
blue :
cocktail :
neon :

Cake :

balloons :
candles :
chocolate :
smarties :

Cake Border :

black :
blue :
chocodrops :
coloredflowers :
coloredwaves :
green :
redflowers :
rose :
smarties :
strawberry :
white :
yellow :

Candles :

normal :
penis :
firecracker :

Issues

Last Update Issue

The Last Update Issue arises when more than one person adds a shared Birthday Gifts Wall gadget. If two persons click on an Add Gift cell at the same position, then the last one to update will overwrite the other one.