As a follow-up to embedding Remember the Milk on the desktop, we’ve compiled a list of some more web apps you can embed.
Keep track of events by adding a calendar to your desktop. Add http://www.google.com/calendar/render as your Active Desktop item.
Get all your iGoogle gadgets in your desktop. Add http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en for Active Desktop.
iGoogle’s iPhone interface is also a more compact way of adding iGoogle to the desktop. Add http://www.google.com/ig/i?source=gp2 to Active Desktop.
Catch up on your latest feeds. Might be a little bulky, so there’s an alternate “skinny” interface below. For the full version, put http://www.google.com/reader/view/ into Active Desktop.
For a more slim interface, you can use Google Reader’s iPhone interface: http://www.google.com/reader/i/
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This works without installing IE. Just use IE tab extension in Firefox to login. Then use the following registry hacks.
First set the IE homepage to the URL of whatever webapp.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
“Start Page”=”http://www.google.com/calendar/render/”
Then restore the “web” tab to the desktop properties view (which disappears when IE isnt installed)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
Look in the right pane for values called NoActiveDesktop and
NoActiveDesktopChanges. If found, they should be set to 0. If not, then double click each entry and set it to 0. If they don’t exist, right click in the right pane, select New, DWord value and name them as above. Leave
them at 0.
Tada, enjoy the desktop webapp goodness without having to bloat your pc with IE.
These also go nicely with the Sidebar in Firefox, regardless of your OS. Huzzah!
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