Take online widgets offline with Amnesty Generator [Video]

This post has been updated from the original. Added: Hands-on video with Amnesty Generator.

For those early adopters out there with Windows Vista, you might be struggling to get some widgets from the Web onto your flashy, new sidebar. To help you out is Amnesty Generator, a small and free app that converts nearly every type of online widget into the 'gadget format' that's compatible with Vista's new desktop toolbar. Using the program requires no coding experience; it's as simple as pasting in the embedding code, and the program does the rest.

Amnesty generator works with Google homepage widgets, as well as simple embeddable objects such as YouTube videos. For Mac users, there's also a version that does the same conversion for Tiger's Dashboard.

[found on Google Code Blog]

[shawshawshaw]

doesn't work with XP

Its a shame it doesn't work for XP - too bad that it appears they are not going to develop a version for it.

[Jhedin]

While it dosn't work for Win XP ---

you might try the Desktop Sidebar, here:

www.desktopsidebar.com

There are a ton of gadget/widget/thingys for it.

[justdaven]

Why don't you take a swing at it

Instead of blaming the nebulous "they" for not backdating a feature of the new operating system to the old one (If they did that, no one would buy the new one), why not build one of your own widget engines.

Or, you can use one of the ones out there, like google's customizable home page(http://www.google.com/ig) or Yahoo's Widgets (http://widgets.yahoo.com).

This tool looks like a great way to make the widgets made for these systems FORWARD compatible....

[shawshawshaw]

Because...

Because XP users are still the majority, and not the minority. What you're saying is sort of like saying "Why don't we make this feature only available for solar cars? They're FORWARD compatible!"