Two Fish Gadget Updates

This weekend I got around to making a couple of improvements to the fish gadget.

  • You can now color individual fish.
  • When they eat, they create ripples in the water.

Let me know what you think.

22 Responses to “Two Fish Gadget Updates”

  1. cynthia krockenberger says:

    How do I place your gadgets on my desk top rather than on my google searach page? – I’m really new at this but am so enjoy watching to your frog, fish, ants, and spider. And I would like to be able to size/re-size the visual area depending on what I am working on,….I guess I would like to be able watch one, all or some on top of what ever I’m working on….is this possibe? Thank you in advance.

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  2. Cal says:

    Awesome!

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  3. abowman says:

    Hi Cynthia,

    You can download and install the free Google Desktop to do that with the tree frog and the spider. After you install the gadget, you can undock it from the sidebar and then select always on top from the gadgets menu.

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  4. Kate says:

    I think it’s just beautiful. I liked the color before, so it will remain unchanged for me, but I really like the small ripples, now. It’s lovely and soothing, and has a Japanese aesthetic which appeals to me. It’s like a moving Sumei painting or living Kimono.

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  5. Peter says:

    I love your fish!!
    They are so cute that I can’t help to feed them every time I see them.

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  6. Demetra says:

    This update is great! It really annoyed me before that I couldn’t change the color of individual fish, and now I can! I found it annoying that I could only use two custom colors for the fish. What if I want to custom color all of them? It looks totally different with all the fish different colors though, very cool!

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  7. Jean says:

    So, what if we could name each of our fish? And, what if we could have different types of fish?

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  8. Jean says:

    By the way…thank you for my pets?

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  9. Liana says:

    Hi,
    I love your fish and i followed your instructions to get it onto google desktop sidebar- but it doesn’t come up with anything when i type http://fishgadget.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/fish.xml into Add gadgets search bar
    How come this doesn’t work?

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  10. Austin says:

    Hey I think your fish are awsome! I agree that it would be way cool if we could have differend=t types of fish and stuff though

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  11. Anna says:

    What does the spider do?? And what Ants??

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  12. Anna says:

    How does the fish change color

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  13. martin says:

    Is it possible to add the fish gadget to a web page without the google ads? and still be able to change the number of fish? I tried the flashvars parameter call without success.

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  14. LEIGH H OLIVER III says:

    FISH ARE GREAT

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  15. LEIGH H OLIVER III says:

    JUST GOT LADYBIRDS/ladybugs THERE FUN AND THE LOOKS FROM OTHERS IS SPECIAL!!!!!!!

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  16. Shannon Forbes says:

    Yes on the fishwater ripples. Yes on individual fishcolors. Nice work, kiddo. What will you think of next?

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  17. Ryan says:

    The fish are cool, I made mine in the 6 rainbow colors plus black and white. For purple put this in custom color: FF00FF.

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  18. Your Friendly Neighborhood Psycho says:

    I want ANTS!!!!!! So how I find the gadget?

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  19. I hate the sidebar, but love the fish. can I not have the side bar with the fish?

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  20. Peter says:

    Your fish are just superb. You must have spent a lot of time perfecting their behaviour — they are so interesting and life-like.

    If you’re considering doing more work on the fish, here are the things I’d most like to see in the next version:

    1. It would be cool if I could change the fish’s size, as well as their colour.

    2. There’s room for improvement in the way that the fish’s tails move. They seem a bit wriggly — more like tadpoles than goldfish.

    Thanks for this gorgeous adornment to my Google home page.

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