The last version of Google Desktop had a bug that prevented users form being able to add universal gadgets by entering their address to the search textbox on the add gadget screen. If you have had trouble adding gadgets like the Fish to Google Desktop, uninstall the version of Google Desktop you have and download and install the latest one. Google Desktop is included in Google Pack.
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....
It looks like most of my Google Gadgets are temporarily unavailable due to my exceeding the bandwidth allowed by Google Pages. I wish that there was a bandwidth meter available so that I could have seen this coming. I’m going to have to find another place to host my gadgets. Update: If any of the google gadgets are not working for you, you should be able to get them working again by adding them to your page from this site....
In Windows, you can embed resizable web pages to your desktop background by following this procedure: Right-click on your desktop and select Properties. Click on the Desktop tab. Press the Customize Desktop button. Click the Web tab. Press the New button. Enter a web page address to the location textbox.