aBowman

I applied a few updates to the Pendulum Clock Gadget, which can be seen be editing the clock’s settings. These updates allow you to:

• make the clock play Westminster Chimes at the quarter hour, half hour, or hour
• adjust the time so that you can keep track of different time zones
• change the title of the clock

Over the past week or so there have been some problems with hosting some of my gadgets at Google Code. Today in particular I’ve noticed that a few of them have been displaying “Information is temporarily unavailable” quite often. Let me know if you have been seeing this and with what gadget. I have provided an alternate link for the fish gadget and will do so for other gadgets if I see that people need them.

Google is going to be applying some performance updates soon that will hopefully take care of this issue.

Tonight I decided to spend some time working on the stingray. I basically updated it so that it has some of the same features as the other gadgets:

• It can now follow your mouse.
• You can change the name to something other than stingray.
• You can change the color of the stingray and the background.
• You can add a background image.
• You can make adjustments to the speed.

I made an update to the Fish Gadget that allows you to:

• change the number of fish
• choose a different color for your fish
• choose a different color for the background
• set a background jpg image

Here are the new features I added to the Spider Gadget:

• The spider now has an abdomen/belly.
• Its legs are now jointed.
• You can set the color of the spider’s legs, belly, and the background.
• You can set a background jpg image.
• You can change its size and speed.
• You can rename it.

Update: I added an “Original Look” checkbox in the settings for those of you who prefer the original spider.