How to add gadgets to your Google Mail account?

by Harsh Agrawal on December 12, 2008

in Gmail

Gmail is becoming feature rich day by day, though this is not the latest feature but i missed it but it’s never too late to write a good post.

This is great news for all gadgets lover now you can add gadgets to your Gmail account, and that is something many of you like me are waiting for.

How to enable Gmail gadget feature?

Go to your Gmail lab by clicking lab icon at the top of Gmail

Enable “add any gadget by URL” by clicking on the enable at the right of it.

gadget1

Once enabled, go to your Gmail settings, under settings you will see link for gadget click on it

gadget 2

you will see an option to add gadget using URL, something like this

gadget 3

Now head over to the link for Google gadgets:

Google gadget database:

Select your desired gadget and click on share this gadget.

gadget 4under that click on copy or paste a link to the gadget and copy the URL ending with xml

for example

http://www.google.co.uk/ig/adde?moduleurl=http://www.google.com/ig/modules/builtin_weather.xml&source=imag

gadget 5Now add the link ending with .xml to the gadget tab under setting of Gmail.

gadget 6

Now you will have your desire gadget on the sidebar of your Gmail.

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1 BAS December 17, 2008 at 07:48

thnx
it was quite helpful

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2 Chethan October 4, 2009 at 16:44

Twitter Gadgets Works fine!
I have lots of gadgets in iGoogle!

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