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Play with Turtles

SUMMARY: Play with and feed virtual turtles on your iGoogle page.

Tired of feeding fish on your iGoogle page and want other virtual animals to play with? Adam Bowman has created a virtual Turtle gadget where you can play with a couple of these reptiles in between performing other tasks on your iGoogle page. Move your mouse pointer over them and their heads move into their shells. You can click and drag turtles around the viewing area. Or click elsewhere inside the area to create "food" the turtles can "eat".

Several configuration options are available - click the down-arrow on the gadget's title bar and click "Edit settings". You can change the title bar text, water color and coverage, ground color, and food color. Up to five turtles are available, and you can change their head, shell, and leg colors.

* Turtle gadget

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