1.To record each pixel movement 2.Covert the pixel movement to km and display on the Widget screen 3.To show the current pixel per second value on the Widget screen 4.To record the fastest mouse movement, pixel per second, and display on the Widget screen read more
Friday, September 5, 2008
The Menorah for Hanukkah is also available . . .
Here's the Menorah for Hanukkah!!!!
A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
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A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
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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... read more
Trajet Paris IdF
Trajet Paris IdF
Dans la série "j'aime Paris et ses transports en commun" :) Ce Widget vous donne les 4 prochains horaires pour un trajet que vous spécifiez ainsi qu'un résumé des transports à emprunter. Vous permet de définir votre trajet par gares et/ou par adresse et d'indiquer vos préférences (Tous modes de transports, juste ferré, bus/tram, le plus rapide, le moins de correspondances, le moins de marche à pied). Pour chaque horaire, vous pouvez accéder à la feuille de route détaillée du trajet. Vous pouvez mémoriser jusqu'à 10 trajets favoris. ATTENTION : contrairement aux Widgets "Prochain RER" ou "Paris Bus Tram", les horaires indiqués ici sont THEORIQUES (pas temps réel) ! Exercice de style : redimensionnement dynamique de la fenêtre via la petite poignée en bas à droite :) Diverses apparences (de Mac OS1 à Mac OSX, de Windows 3.1 à Windows Vista, beOS et deux surprises) For Paris, France. Define your trip, the Widget'll give you the four next best schedules. You can store up to ten preferred trips. Dynamic resize of the window is available using the bottom right handle. :) many skins (from Mac OS1 to Mac OSX, from Windows 3.1 to Windows Vista, beOS and two surprises)
Dans la série "j'aime Paris et ses transports en commun" :) Ce Widget vous donne les 4 prochains horaires pour un trajet que vous spécifiez ainsi qu'un résumé des transports à emprunter. Vous permet de définir votre trajet par gares et/ou par adresse et d'indiquer vos préférences (Tous modes de transports, juste ferré, bus/tram, le plus rapide, le moins de correspondances, le moins de marche à pied). Pour chaque horaire, vous pouvez accéder à la feuille de route détaillée du trajet. Vous pouvez mémoriser jusqu'à 10 trajets favoris. ATTENTION : contrairement aux Widgets "Prochain RER" ou "Paris Bus Tram", les horaires indiqués ici sont THEORIQUES (pas temps réel) ! Exercice de style : redimensionnement dynamique de la fenêtre via la petite poignée en bas à droite :) Diverses apparences (de Mac OS1 à Mac OSX, de Windows 3.1 à Windows Vista, beOS et deux surprises) For Paris, France. Define your trip, the Widget'll give you the four next best schedules. You can store up to ten preferred trips. Dynamic resize of the window is available using the bottom right handle. :) many skins (from Mac OS1 to Mac OSX, from Windows 3.1 to Windows Vista, beOS and two surprises)
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update 06 September 2008
Kaspersky Anti-Virus Update 06 September 2008
Sets of threat signatures and databases of network attacks Sets of threat signatures and databases of network attacks (read more)
Sets of threat signatures and databases of network attacks Sets of threat signatures and databases of network attacks (read more)
Reviewing an Item in Your Queue
Reviewing an Item in Your Queue
Media Manager provides the ability to review any item on your queue. Creating a review automatically creates a post and associates it with an item. When create a review post in your weblog, Media Manager inserts a simple "Media...
Media Manager provides the ability to review any item on your queue. Creating a review automatically creates a post and associates it with an item. When create a review post in your weblog, Media Manager inserts a simple "Media...
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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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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Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress
Lorelle at WordCamp 2008 - 260 Ways to Break WordPress
I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below. I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every [...]
I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below. I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every [...]
I’ve uploaded my program from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco to SlideShare and showcased it below.
I talked about how important it is that we push WordPress as far as possible, even to the breaking point, to make sure it will work across all operating systems, all hosts, all browsers, all setups - in every way we can. The more we push WordPress, the more the community benefits from the fixes. Trust me, WordPress can take it, but we need to do more.
Examples covered in the presentation include:
- Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress as an example of how Liz wanted to publish 260 posts, one a minute, using the future post/timestamp feature of WordPress. Would it work?
- Absolute Comments WordPress Plugin and WP Comment Remix WordPress Plugin add improved functionality for responding to comments from the Comments Panel in WordPress.
- When you can’t use WordPress Plugins, like on WordPress.com blogs, creative people like Engtech of Internet Duct Tape said, “We can do more!” He created some Greasemonkey FireFox Extension scripts that improve how WordPress works for WordPress and WordPress.com blogs. WordPress Comment Ninja adds comment replies from the Comments Panel. Auntie Akismet Spam for WordPress condenses Akismet spam to two lines and combines redundant comment spam to speed up comment spam checking for false/positives by an incredible amount. Both of these save you a LOT of time.
- Extra Tip: Power Blogging Tips: Comment on Blogs From Within Google Feed Reader - another Greasemonkey script that allows you to comment on blogs from inside of your Google Feed Reader without opening the page in a new tab.
Here are some of the other presenters from WordCamp 2008 in San Francisco:
- Global Voices - Democratising the web with WordPress
- WordPress APIs
- Color Theory and the Making of Monotone
- Quercus WordCamp 2008
- Secure Coding with WordPress - WordCamp SF 2008
- BuddyPress @ WordCamp
- WordPress + OAuth
- Make Cash. Using Open Source. And WordPress.
- Findability Abwc2008 (blog post)
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Best Buy Sara Moulton Episode Reminder
Best Buy Sara Moulton Episode Reminder
Don't want to miss an episode of “Making Your Kitchen Cook”? You don't have to. Download this Widget, and you'll know the minute a new episode is served up.
Don't want to miss an episode of “Making Your Kitchen Cook”? You don't have to. Download this Widget, and you'll know the minute a new episode is served up.
Redefining the Widget
Redefining the Widget
Last year at Widgets Live, the announcement of the SpringWidgets platform redefined what a widget could be. At the time of our launch there were three categories of widgets: desktop widgets, web widgets and a special subsection of web widgets that would work on social networking profiles.
We changed all that by inventing a widget platform that allowed for the first time, the ability to use a single, updatable and configurable widget file to reach all of these destinations. We took it further by incorporating in the ability to “pop” any SpringWidget you find on the web onto your desktop with just one click.
Since our release, there have been a few companies that have announced a similar product offering - YourMinis and Netvibes are examples we feel are well done.
I'm going to give you a little sneak peak behind the curtain where we are quietly working on redefining the widget once again, and perhaps in the process spur another round of inspiration.
For the most part, online widgets have been exactly what the limited definition has made them out to be …
Thanks Wikipedia
Reading this, I’m thinking about the widget landscape and in my head I’m starting to challenge the entire box that we have collectively put widgets into, trying to look past the simple definition and look at the transformative nature of what a portable chunk of code can do.
Is the widget just a visitor on the web page or can it be much more and control and interact with the web page it’s on? If widgets are like parasites, can a parasite define the host?
Can a widget be a portable “experience?”
Envision if you will a Widget that no longer sends the user off to another site to personalize itself. Imagine a widget that is not content to stay within the confines of it’s own little box, but rather can interact with the page it lives on. The “Transformative Widget” would take over the page it’s on; integrating it's content within that page and transforming it based on a click.
If the Widget is not just a chunk of code, but rather a portable experience, imagine the infinite ways we can expand the brand experience within the social network itself. Moving code and embedding Widgets can create a better way to immerse the user in an extreme brand experience. The widget then becomes an ad that is user embedded, user selected and more powerfully engaging and interactive than any traditional advertisement that is available - and just as performance oriented.
If a user allows the widget to brand the entire page, is that a "Widgetview", an "Ad Impression", or a "Pageview"?
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So if SpringWidgets is ready to challenge the Widget Landscape it’s safe to say that the launch of THE FANTASTIC FOUR Widget is the next step in redefining the Widget. The transformative nature of TFF Widget is completely apparent once you start using it on your MySpace profile and the brand experience is more immersive than anything possible with a widget prior to the Fantastic Four widget launch.
This is only one of the many transformative widgets that we are engaged in and only represents a small amount of our R&D efforts. Over the weeks and months to come, we'll be rolling out some truly fantastic products that will not only transform the widget, but transform SpringWidgets as well.
We would love to have you on board as we make these transformations, so please feel free to download our API and put your own thoughts to work in redefining what a widget can be.
Last year at Widgets Live, the announcement of the SpringWidgets platform redefined what a widget could be. At the time of our launch there were three categories of widgets: desktop widgets, web widgets and a special subsection of web widgets that would work on social networking profiles.
We changed all that by inventing a widget platform that allowed for the first time, the ability to use a single, updatable and configurable widget file to reach all of these destinations. We took it further by incorporating in the ability to “pop” any SpringWidget you find on the web onto your desktop with just one click.
Since our release, there have been a few companies that have announced a similar product offering - YourMinis and Netvibes are examples we feel are well done.
I'm going to give you a little sneak peak behind the curtain where we are quietly working on redefining the widget once again, and perhaps in the process spur another round of inspiration.
For the most part, online widgets have been exactly what the limited definition has made them out to be …
A web widget is a portable chunk of code that can be installed and executed within any separate HTML-based web page by an end user without requiring additional compilation.
Thanks Wikipedia
Reading this, I’m thinking about the widget landscape and in my head I’m starting to challenge the entire box that we have collectively put widgets into, trying to look past the simple definition and look at the transformative nature of what a portable chunk of code can do.
Is the widget just a visitor on the web page or can it be much more and control and interact with the web page it’s on? If widgets are like parasites, can a parasite define the host?
Can a widget be a portable “experience?”
Envision if you will a Widget that no longer sends the user off to another site to personalize itself. Imagine a widget that is not content to stay within the confines of it’s own little box, but rather can interact with the page it lives on. The “Transformative Widget” would take over the page it’s on; integrating it's content within that page and transforming it based on a click.
If the Widget is not just a chunk of code, but rather a portable experience, imagine the infinite ways we can expand the brand experience within the social network itself. Moving code and embedding Widgets can create a better way to immerse the user in an extreme brand experience. The widget then becomes an ad that is user embedded, user selected and more powerfully engaging and interactive than any traditional advertisement that is available - and just as performance oriented.
If a user allows the widget to brand the entire page, is that a "Widgetview", an "Ad Impression", or a "Pageview"?
This is only one of the many transformative widgets that we are engaged in and only represents a small amount of our R&D efforts. Over the weeks and months to come, we'll be rolling out some truly fantastic products that will not only transform the widget, but transform SpringWidgets as well.
We would love to have you on board as we make these transformations, so please feel free to download our API and put your own thoughts to work in redefining what a widget can be.
Welcome FineTune!
SpringWidgets welcomes it's first third-party developer uploaded SpringWidget.Only days after our silent launch of widget uploading, Tony MacDonnell and the rest of the team from Teknision have uploaded a Finetune widget, the first on our platform not built internally.
I have to say that I'm really impressed! The combination of a comprehensive music library, the ability to set a 45 song playlist and being viral is a killer idea. I was able to find all the songs that I wanted to add to create a playlist that truly reflected my musical tastes.
The interface for the widget is fantastic and fun. When you have a song selected, the album art is displayed in a style that looks like a row of CDs sitting in a shelf. It reminds me of the very cool "coverflow" effect that Apple recently put into iTunes.
Of course, with the age of songs that I like, a stack of records metaphor might have been more appropriate ;-)
Here is my live SpringWidget, go ahead and play around:
I've added this widget on my personal blog and my MySpace profile to give it a whirl and I'm very happy with the results. While the size of the widget is not configurable, it's designed at a size that fits nicely into the music section on Myspace and almost any blog sidebar.
What does Tony have to say about developing on the SpringWidgets platform? - I pulled the following quote from his blog:
"We've used WidgetBox, Yahoo Widgets, Google Gadgets, OSX Dashboard, and so far the Springbox was the most fun, and rendered the coolest final product at the end of the day."
Of course, the real cool thing for FineTune is that they were able to make it down to the desktop months before Adobe Apollo is to become available and they made it there with SpringWidgets. This begs the question: "were there already footprints on the moon when Neil Armstrong landed?"We are very glad to have FineTune, Tony and his Teknision team on board with SpringWidgets, and we love the product they have built. Go ahead and give it a try and see if you like it as much as we do!
-Don read more
Feed Compare Feedburner subscriber graphs
A large number of blogs and other sites now use Feedburner as it has a number of great Pro freatures and Feedburner also allows you to transfer feed ownership between users. Whilst you can see your stats in Feedburner the graphs are not that great and you can compare them.
There is a site called Feed Compare that allows you to view the RSS subscriber data for up to 4 feeds on a single graph. This means you could compare your competitors RSS subscriber count with your own feed.
To allow you to get a better idea of subscriber numbers you can also view a graph showing data for the last month, quarter, half year, year or 2 years assuming the feed has been in existence for that long.
The reason this is such a great tool is that you can now find out exactly how a sites RSS feed has grown over time. All you need is the sites Feedburner URL which you can get by right clicking on the sites RSS feed icon and copying the URL than pasting it into Feed Compare.
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foo removefromqueue 1.0 (Freeware)
foo removefromqueue is a lightweight and usefulllows one to remove items from the playback queue with context menu/shortcut key. read more
Open Tech Mac Clone Company Wants To Sell Itself For $50,000 [Open Tech]
Open Tech Mac Clone Company Wants To Sell Itself For $50,000 [Open Tech]
It's only been three weeks since the Mac "clone" company Open Tech made its debut, but it's already putting itself up for sale for $50,000. In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo...
It's only been three weeks since the Mac "clone" company Open Tech made its debut, but it's already putting itself up for sale for $50,000. In an email on July 20, their Vice President Elijah Samaroo...
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