download google widgets: September 2008

Monday, September 29, 2008

Dashboard - Critical Bug Fixed: "'mt_pluginmanager' doesn't exist"

Critical Bug Fixed: "'mt_pluginmanager' doesn't exist"
It took me far too long to track down a simple error a number of people were reporting with Plugin Manager, but I did track it down, and did finally manage to fix it. Long story short, the deployment mechanism...

Widgets - RSS Hugger

RSS Hugger

Collin LaHay has come up with an idea called RSSHugger, it's a site that allows webmasters to promote their RSS feeds by adding them to the site. You can add your own page but it will cost you 20US dollars (10 is you blog about RSSHugger).

RSS Hugger seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.

The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.

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Widgets - Countdown to DEAD SILENCE - the movie!

Countdown to DEAD SILENCE - the movie!
How creepy is this widget?!!!!

--His eyes move when your cursor is idle,
--his eyes follow your cursor when your cursor is close to his face, and
--CLICK ON HIS HEAD!!!!! IT BOBBLES!!!!!

CREEPY!!!!

See the widget on the Dead Silence movie page inside MySpace at:

www.myspace.com/deadsilencemovie

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Widgets - Check out our Christmas Tree widget!!

Check out our Christmas Tree widget!!
We thought everyone could use a Christmas Tree widget that counts down the days (like you need more reminding of how fast it is approaching)!

Go to the Christmas Tree page on the site http://springwidgets.com/widgets/view/46 to get your own tree for your page or to pop to your desktop. It can be configured to your liking. We're working on a Menorah and Kwanzaa also . . . keep checking back!

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Dashboard - Kinara widget for Kwanzaa is here!

We're finished the Kinara widget for Kwanzaa!!!!

A new candle is lit for each day of Kwanzaa. Click on "Get this widget" to put it on your page!

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Download - Kinara widget for Kwanzaa is here!

We're finished the Kinara widget for Kwanzaa!!!!

A new candle is lit for each day of Kwanzaa. Click on "Get this widget" to put it on your page!

Get this widget!

Widgets - Twitter Tweets

Twitter Tweets
08:14 Will be also speaking at #wordcampportland on Woopra - real time stats web analytics. Sept 27 Portland Oregon # 11:16 #wordcampportland keynote going to be AWESOME. Need sleep but working on a great talk. See you this weekend. # 16:31 On my way to #wordcampportland meet up to talk about this weekend’s activities. Going to meet [...]

08:14 Will be also speaking at #wordcampportland on Woopra - real time stats web analytics. Sept 27 Portland Oregon #
11:16 #wordcampportland keynote going to be AWESOME. Need sleep but working on a great talk. See you this weekend. #
16:31 On my way to #wordcampportland meet up to talk about this weekend’s activities. Going to meet all the volunteers and team in Portland. YEAH! #
16:31 @ahockley Sleep? What’s that? Aren’t there going to be #wordcampportland events on Sunday? Everyday is WordPress day for me! #
16:32 @mollermarketing Approvals should be announced soon. Coming in batches. A LOT signed up. Stay tuned. #
16:32 @gregbd BuddyPress is being used by a lot of people, though it still is in development. Go on, try it. Let us know how it works for you. #
16:33 @MelaniePerry Blogger & Podcaster Mag has been around over a year, tho making a lot of changes. It’s a fun mag with great stuff like me! #

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Widgets - See You in Las Vegas at Blog World Expo

I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event. I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress. I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there [...]

I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.

I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.

In addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:

These specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.

I do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.

I will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!

I hope to see you there!

NEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!

Other upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:

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Dashboard - iRiver Taking Pre-Orders For Retro-Slick Spinn PMP, Shipping October 3rd [Mp3 Players]

iRiver Taking Pre-Orders For Retro-Slick Spinn PMP, Shipping October 3rd [Mp3 Players]
iRiver's beautifully designed Spinn we handled in Berlin (that giant analog knob, mmm) now has official details on U.S. availability: $250 for 4GB and $280 for 8GB, with pre-orders taken now to be...

Download - Convenient Download Bundle

Convenient Download Bundle
For many installing Perl modules is difficult within their environment, and for those people we provide a simple and easy to install bundle of all the necessary perl modules for Plugin Manager. Instructions Download the bundle. Navigate to the MT_HOME/extlib...

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Download - TheSpringBox 1.1.5

We've got a new build for you today. Most of the additions are for you developers out there. Here are some of the new API features:

Widget.onClose() this event is fired when the Widget is closed

Widget.center() center you widget on the screen

Widget.onMemoryUpdate(isTrigger) now passes a Boolean identifying the instance of the widget that updated the Memory.

We've removed Widget.setVersion() and replaced it with Widget.setMetadata() to allow you to configure an about box for your widget.

We've also updated our SDK to version 1.1.5 so you can view full documentation on the new features; we've also fixed the no-trace issue in the Web Simulator. Online docs will follow in the next few days. If you have any further questions, please post them in the forums. Read More

Download - Beyond Sync 3.5.8.135

A file synchronization product that allows you to synchronize files between folders A file synchronization product that allows you to synchronize files between folders (read more) Read More

Dashboard - What All Glasses Will Look Like in 2020 [Crazy Inventions]

The latest in designer eyewear, these just-announced, newly-patented "Avant-garde Frames" reduce the strain of glasses that generally pinch your nose and weigh down your ears. By shifting the support... Read More

Download - Promote Your Widgets!

We've been upgrading our site over the past few weeks, adding robust search and sorting, better widget description pages and building in some new tools that can be used promote your widgets.

Almost every upgrade we added is focused on making your widgets easier to find and the promotional tools are free to use with any widget in our gallery, so I thought I'd invite you all in to try them out.

No matter if you have uploaded a great new custom widget or created a quick express widget, all the new tools that we have just added in will work to help you promote your SpringWidget!

So, what's new?

1. Tagging In case you don't know what they are, "Tags" are just words that describe your widget that are used when someone searches our gallery. "Tagging" allows you to make it easier for users to find your widget.

You should tag your widget with words that describe the content or nature of your widget. For example, the springwidgets blog is all about news on the SpringWidgets platform, so I'd tag it with "springwidgets", "widgets" and "widget news" but I'd leave out more obvious words like "blog" and "news" because they really don't help users find content that is specific to my blog.

2. Star-Ratings Another tool to help you promote your widgets is our new ratings system. You can rate any widget in our gallery and users can sort by the best rated widgets. The more that you rate, the better the system gets! Help us out and rate a widget or two in the gallery today.

Here is an important tip - we let you rate your own widget so you can start the ratings yourself... Go ahead, give it a try.

3. Favorite Widgets Every time a user "favorites" your widget, it's added to a list of favorite widgets on that users profile! The better your widget looks and works, the more likely you'll have fans.

Want to favorite a widget? Just click the "favorite widgets" button on any widget in our gallery. Much easier and faster than saying "What was that widget called again?" and banging your head on the desk. :-)

4. Social Bookmarking Links Automatically add (or help vote up) any widget in our gallery to the various social bookmarking sites like Digg and Reddit. These sites are great ways to promote your widget and find new users. Just click the icon and follow the directions to get started. The great news is that once you submit your widget with these links, users can vote your widget up with a click or two!

5. Widget Search The best way to be found is to make sure that you are accurate when describing your widget. Any user can search our gallery for your widget and find results based on your developer id, widget title and description and tags.

The more accurate and descriptive you are, the more likely that a search will include your widget in front of interested users.

6. Tag Clouds and "Sorting by" Navigation Users can now search by Ratings, Tag Clouds, Name Sorting, and Most Recent Widgets.

Since users will be looking through the gallery with these tools, the more descriptive you are when entering your widget into the gallery, the better!

7. User Comments The more talked about your widget is, the more users are likely to trust adding you to their page or desktop. Get the conversation started by adding your own comments to the widgets you like.

Find a widget you like? let the creator know that you like it. Just feel like saying "thanks for letting me use your widget?" That's ok too. We hope that the addition of comments will be a popular and helpful feature for everyone.

Now get out there and start promoting yourself!

We are continuing to make improvements every day and we'd love to have your input on what to build next, so pop on over to the forums and tell us what you think!

Thanks,

Don Read More

Widgets - Install Feed Manager

Install Feed Manager
There are two options when installing Feed Manager: Download and install the Feed Manager archive manually Install via the Plugin Manager plugin for Movable Type...

Download - OceanWaves 1.0

This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates a statistically generated ocean wave suface. This 3D Studio Max plugin adds a new geometry object which generates a statistically generated ocean wave suface. (read more) Read More

Dashboard - iPhone 2.2 Beta 1 Seeded to Developers [Iphone 2.2]

iPhone 2.2 Beta 1 Seeded to Developers [Iphone 2.2]
Well, that was speedy. Not too long after iPhone 2.1 arrived to fix most of iPhone 2.0's most damning problems, Apple has seeded OS 2.2 Beta 1 to developers. No one's had a chance to dive in yet to...

Download - Shiver Me Timbers!

For the fans of Captain Jack!...

A SpringWidgets Pirates of the Caribbean countdown clock to put on your profile or blog!

Those of you who have seen my MySpace profile and noticed the skull and crossbones that I use as my profile picture, you have probably figured out that I'm a big fan of pirates.

So much so that I figured that we just had to create a countdown to what will probably be, in my opinion, the biggest movie of the year . . . Pirates of the Caribbean!

Being somewhat piratical ourselves, the team can really relate to the need for blue ocean waters, treasure and wearing silly three cornered pointy hats.

By the way . . . take a look at the bottom of the widget...

Fans of our widgets will notice that the "pop" button has moved from the upper right to the lower left of the widget and it now has a couple of friends, an "options" button and a SpringWidgets logo.

Don't worry, the Pop button will still give you one click downloading of the widget to your desktop if you have the SpringWidgets application installed . . . we just moved it so that it would look better on some of the odd shaped widgets that we are seeing in the gallery.

If you take a moment and click on the options button, you can see that we have added in a few, well... "Options" to the widget. You can now copy the code directly in the widget, download the widget from the menu, jump to the customize/share it page and learn more about the widget you are looking at.

I hope that you like the changes and find that the added functionality enhances your widget experience. If you like the widget and have a moment, stop by our community page and send a note to the team letting them know.

I'm going to go dress up like a pirate now and try and find some buried treasure.

-Don Read More

Dashboard - Backyard Nuclear Reactor Should Be Ready to Ship by 2013 [Nuclear Power]

Hyperion Power's plans to develop and sell portable nuclear reactors first came to light last year—but most people probably brushed off the idea as some sort of fantasy. Whether that is true or... Read More

Dashboard - Rockbox Replacement MP3 Player Firmware Gets Updated [Mp3 Players]

Rockbox Replacement MP3 Player Firmware Gets Updated [Mp3 Players]
Remember Rockbox? Back when MP3 players couldn't do a whole lot more than play MP3s, Rockbox was there to add Gameboy emulators, additional codecs and other homebrew features. And if you're still...

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Widgets - Google Brings Push Gmail, Google Maps Street View, Other Tight Integration to the G1 [Android]

Android is here, and as to be expected with a Google-made mobile OS, there's a bit of Google App fanciness going on. In fact, it's designed with Google Apps in mind so much that whether or not you're... Read More

Download - Twelve Clock

Twelve Clock
A clock with the true look of a six digit LED broadcast clock or similar clock.

Download - How the T-Mobile G1 Stacks Up To Its Frienemies [Android]

How the T-Mobile G1 Stacks Up To Its Frienemies [Android]
digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/T_Mobile_G1_Price_and_Feature_Comparison'; The T-Mobile G1 launched today with a rich feature set, but how does...

Download - Nokia's "Point and Find" Head-Up Display For Life is Launching in Beta [Augmented Reality]

Nokia's Point and Find system is similar to the Sekai iPhone app we mentioned: you point your cellphone's camera at an object (such as a cinema) and it'll automagically respond with the film times,... Read More

Widgets - "Plugin Manager Enabled" Badges

Are you a Movable Type plugin developer? Have you built in support for Plugin Manager yet? If so, consider adding one of the following badges to your plugin's web page to signify the your plugin is "Plugin Manager Enabled." This... Read More

Download - The value of an RSS subscriber at 30 dollars

Have you ever wondered how much each subscriber to your RSS feed is worth. Well according to Mark over at 45n5 that magic number is currently $30. Mark arrived at this figure by dividing the price blogs have recently sold for by the number of subscribers to the blog.

I have previously made predictions about RSS playing a more important role back in October 2006. It looks like RSS is now an important metric to measure the success of a site and it is also starting to play a larger role in deciding the monetary value of a blog.

RSS subscribers and their value

Although Mark's use of RSS as a measurement of value was just a bit of fun it does show that RSS is a valued metric. A year ago most webmasters and readers would not have placed much if any value in the number of subscribers you have.

As RSS becomes a more valued metric the value of the RSS feed itself will grow. There are going to be more advertisers willing to buy advertising in an RSS feed and the value of RSS will grow. This is because many RSS subscribers do not click through to the website itself but use the feed to consume the content.

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Dashboard - 3 things you really want to know about RSS

I have been doing some digging into the statistics for Newsniche to try and discover what you are really interested in when it comes to RSS. So I have come up with the imaginatively titled 3 things you really want to know about RSS. So here are the most wanted to know things about RSS in reverse order.

RSS publishing tools

The third most popular topic is on RSS publishing tools. Rather than an article this is a section of the site dedicated to letting you know how you can publish RSS on your site. Being able to publish RSS on your site means that you have a constant stream of updating content for your readers.

Which is the best RSS feed reader

The second most popular item on the site is an article on Which is the best RSS feed reader. You certainly want to know which is the best way to read your feeds. This is not surprising as RSS is all about being able to have information from your favourite sites available to you without having to visit every you like frequently. Why not subscribe to their feed and have the content come to you.

Using Javascript to display RSS

I guess deep down everyone wants to display RSS using Javascript as the number one most read article is Using Javascript to display RSS. This is an article I wrote ages ago showing you how you could easily place content from an RSS feed on your site using a snippet of Javascript. That is so 2006.

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Download - Designing WordPress Themes For the Slowing Web

Designing WordPress Themes For the Slowing Web
Jonathan Bailey of the Blog Herald wrote about Surfing the Slow Web, a summary of his recent experience trying to connect to the Internet as an evacuee from Hurricane Gustav. While most web designers are pushing the limits of heavy handed design towards high bandwidth, the world still doesn’t work that fast or wide. According to [...]

Jonathan Bailey of the Blog Herald wrote about Surfing the Slow Web, a summary of his recent experience trying to connect to the Internet as an evacuee from Hurricane Gustav. While most web designers are pushing the limits of heavy handed design towards high bandwidth, the world still doesn’t work that fast or wide.

According to statistics, if you are reading this, you are probably on a broadband connection. Whether you are surfing at work on a LAN or at home on a DSL or cable modem, you are probably not on dial up at this moment.

However, there was a time not that long ago in which Webmasters were optimizing every element of their page feverishly to squeeze every ounce of speed from it. Broadband simply was not that common and, even over dial up connections, visitors had twitchy fingers on the “back” button at all times.

But in the age of YouTube, Flash ads and embeddable content, those lessons have been all but forgotten. However, not everyone has access to high-speed connection, especially in rural locations, and after spending just a few days limited to dial up, the lessons come flooding back.

Let us not forget that the virtual world is moving off desktops and land line and cable connections to the wired world of mobile computing. For years, our bandwidth speeds have been increasing, but now that we are moving to Internet access via cell phones and handheld computers, bandwidths are slowing down and narrowing again. Wired’s recent iPhone 3G survey reported that the average speed in the USA is 990 kbps - a typical average where only a few high scores can bring up the lowest to a well-meaning number, but a number not really indicative of what most are experiencing.

Living on the road in the early years, we started jumping up and down when we got a dial-up connection past 1200 baud (that’s without the kilobyte) in 1996, it was a thrill to get the first “fast” connection and actually move into the kilobytes. When WIFI was released and we could reach into the megabytes, and speeds have been increasing, but life on the road means taking what you can find, and what you often find is pretty darn slow.

I moved recently and had a frustrating time researching and initiating Internet access. I only have one choice for Internet service, and while they have multiple offerings, from dial-up to 20 Megs per second, I only have one choice, 1.5 Megs, at my location.

Designing for a Slowing Web

As you design your blog, WordPress Themes, Widgets, and even WordPress Plugins, you have a lot of options about how you code the code and include the graphic elements. You can design for the high speed broadband market, of which you might be one, or take into consideration the drop in bandwidth many are taking when they move from dedicated to mobile connections.

In addition to Jonathan’s tips for designing your blogs with slower bandwidth in mind, here are mine:

Use CSS: CSS was created to speed up page loading by putting all the design elements within the stylesheet. Many are putting them back into the architecture, including redundant images. Move all redundant design images and references back into the stylesheet and increase page generation times significantly.
Style for Accessibility: If your blog design meets the Section 508 Accessibility Standards and the WebAIM Section 508 Checklist, the odds are that it will load faster because it’s designed with accessibility features in mind like page readers and text only browsers.
Put Content First: The general order of a web page’s content in loading should be 1) header, 2) content, 3) additional content (comments), 5) sidebar(s), 6) footer, and the last should be ads and other heavy graphic elements. If a visitor has to wait for a heavy graphic element like ads, sidebars, and big images to load before they get to the content, they are very likely to lose patience and leave. Design the underlying architecture to load the content first and the pretty later.
Use a Mobile/Handheld Stylesheet: Include the option for a mobile or handheld stylesheet for your blog design or WordPress Theme. Restrict the visible design elements to the MOST critical information such as content rather than heavy graphics, sidebars, and ads. There are WordPress Plugins to help create a mobile version of your blog such as the new WordPress iPhone Plugin, Mowser WordPress Mobile, WordPress Mobile Edition, Mobilize by Mippin WordPress Plugin, WP-Wap, WordPress PDA & iPhone, WPhone, and iPhone / Mobile Admin.
Reduce, Resize, and Lower the Resolution of Graphics and Images: Do you really need to upload and display an image that can be viewed on IMAX? No! Keep images, even linked images, down to 800 to 1200 pixels wide. Keep file sizes down. Use JPG and PNG files with optimization to further reduce file sizes. Don’t preload images unless absolutely necessary. And don’t hotlink images as that adds more bandwidth to the bandwidth to pull them into the page from multiple cross-server locations.
Avoid Embedding Videos: As Jonathan mentioned in his article, why embed or host video players on your site when a link to download and play the video on whatever player the user has installed on their computer or browser will work just as well. Consider replacing embedding with a thumbnail image wrapped in a link or with a link to download the file in order to play it.
Limit JavaScripts and AJAX: While most of the web today can’t function without JavaScripts and the new AJAX, these scripts are often found in the head of the HTML architecture file, loading before the rest of the page. This can slow down the generation of a page. Consider optimizing all scripts and updating them for fast loading, and add them to the footer when possible to make it the last thing that loads on the page.

There are many other things you can do to speed up the loading of your blog’s design and content. As Jonathan noted, in the early days of web design, we wouldn’t even release a web design or WordPress Theme without running it through a battery of tests for code checks, accessibility standards, and bandwidth optimization. Maybe it’s time to bring that back for all WordPress Themes and blog designs, as well as for design enhancing and impacting WordPress Plugins.

The whole world doesn’t run at top bandwidth speeds. While we’re waiting for everyone to catch up, let’s design nice.

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Dashboard - Woot.com 3.5.3

This widget displays the current-selling product at Woot.com.

About Woot.com
At Woot.com one hugely-discounted product is released each evening at 12 midnight (Monday - Friday). This product is available for only 24 hours or until it totally sells out. The widget now supports wine.woot, as well as the original woot site.

Widgets - Install Photo Gallery

Install Photo Gallery
There are two options when installing Photo Gallery: Download and install the Photo Gallery archive manually Install via the Plugin Manager plugin for Movable Type...

Friday, September 19, 2008

Widgets - Sebastian Vettel 0.1

Get all news of F1 hero Sebastian Vettel.

About Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel (born July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim) is a German race car driver. He is currently contracted to the Scuderia Toro Rosso Formula One team alongside Sebastian Bourdais. He had been the third (test and reserve) driver for the BMW Sauber Formula One team from the 2006 Turkish Grand Prix onwards. By taking part in Friday practice for the 2006 Turkish Grand Prix, Vettel became the youngest ever Formula One driver to drive at a Grand Prix meeting, at 19 years and 53 days.

On Sunday September 30, 2007, during the Japanese Grand Prix Vettel became the youngest driver to lead a race in Formula One history. He also became the quickest driver to get a fine in F1, being fined $1,000 nine seconds into his career, after speeding in the pitlane. He also became the youngest driver to score points in a Grand Prix and lead a Grand Prix. AND he is the youngest driver ever to WIN a Grand Prix (GP Monza - 14 September 2008 - 21 years old) - A new F1 star is born!

Dashboard - LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH [Lte]

LTE Downloads Cute Animal Pictures at 170Mbps While Driving 40MPH [Lte]
The next thing in fast mobile internet is the 4G standard LTE. While we've seen an LTE demo before, it wasn't quite as ridiculous as the LTE demo T-Mobile and Nortel just wrapped up: While driving...

Widgets - Speed Video Converter 3.1.13

Speed Video Converter 3.1.13
An application for converting video files of various popular formats An application for converting video files of various popular formats (read more)

Dashboard - 3 things you really want to know about RSS

RSS publishing tools

Which is the best RSS feed reader

Using Javascript to display RSS

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Widgets - Adding an Item to Your Queue

From anywhere within Media Manager you can add another item to your queue. Click on the "Add Item" link in the left hand menu, or the "Add Item to your Queue" found on the main Media Manager screen. From... Read More

Dashboard - news4mac 2.0

news4mac 2.0
The most recent news for Mac users from the most trusted sources

About news4mac
The news4mac widget allows you to display the most recent Mac news from the most trusted sources. It’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. You can also submit your own news story at news4mac.com

Download - SpringWidgets loves iGoogle

There is a lot of press today on Google Homepages... oops... I mean "iGoogle"

Since we at SpringWidgets are really big fans of Google and everything they do. I thought this would be a great time to officially say how much we love the iGoogle page by letting everyone know that we have recently added in support for automatic posting of all SpringWidgets into your personalized iGoogle page!

Just choose the widget you are interested in, configure it however you like it to look and function and then select the Google icon in the share it box.

The whole process takes only a few seconds and is one of the easiest ways to put one of our widgets on a page that we have available. Way to go Google!

With all the recent focus on widgets, it's not surprising that everyone is building a widget destination of some sort. We at SpringWidgets will continue to build support for each new destination as APIs become available and look forward to helping enable 2007 truly being the year of the widget.

Here is my iGoogle page. Complete with today's MLB games and a countdown to the next episode of NBC's Heroes!

Download - Simon Wedege’s The Insider 1.1

RSS widget for the danish blog “Simon Wedege’s The Insider”

About Simon Wedege’s The Insider
Get the latest blog entries from the danish blog “Simon Wedege’s The Insider”.

Dashboard - Corpus Clock: "The Strangest Clock in the World" Unveiled By Stephen Hawking [Corpus Clock]

Stephen Hawking has made his way back to Cambridge after participating in the launch of the LHC to unveil an unbelievable new clock at Corpus Christi College. Designer John Taylor intended the clock... Read More

Dashboard - Question of the Day: Can Advertising Really Help Make Microsoft "Hip?" [Question Of The Day]

newVideoPlayer("/pcpride.flv", 475, 376,""); There is no doubt about it, Microsoft's "I'm a PC" ads are far better than those miserably bad Gates and Seinfeld spots. The newer ads try to dispel the... Read More

Monday, September 15, 2008

Dashboard - Plasma Tube - Motion Light Widget 2.1

An amazing motion lamp widget - The PlasmaLamp. Unmatched 3d animation with a little zip for fast dashboard viewing.

About Plasma Tube - Motion Light Widget
Engineered like no other. The Plasma Lamp leaves your grampas old motion light in the 60’s! We’ve filled this sucker with a material patented exclusively to innermindMedia. This plasma is like no liquid you’ve ever seen and it simply defies the laws of gravity and physics. This is the ultimate eye candy for your Mac OS X Dashboard.

Dashboard - AccuWeather Pocket Weather

This amazingly compact weather Widget gives you all the information you need without taking up valuable space on your desktop. Choose from among the 2.7 million locations around the world for which AccuWeather.com provides forecasts, and get: - Current conditions in Fahrenheit or Celsius (with an easy toggle back and forth between the two) - Five-day forecast via a quick-opening, quick-closing fly-out window - Day display in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish AccuWeather.com's Pocket Weather Widget stores as many locations as you want, from one to thousands-and you can instantly see any of the locations you've previously viewed. Read More

Widgets - The Week in iPhone Apps: Games, File Sharing, and More Games [IPhone Apps]

The Week in iPhone Apps: Games, File Sharing, and More Games [IPhone Apps]
At the Let's Rock event this week, Apple pushed the new iPod touch hard (and iPhone too, obviously) as a viable gaming platform. Steve even went so far as to call it the best portable gaming platform...

Download - 3 things you really want to know about RSS

3 things you really want to know about RSS

RSS publishing tools

Which is the best RSS feed reader

Using Javascript to display RSS

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