Eazy Code 6.4 (Trial)

A VB.Net RAD tool that helps you develop forms. Read More

Radio Classique

Une fois installé sur votre bureau d'ordinateur, ce Widget diffuse Radio Classique en direct sans que vous ayez besoin de lancer votre navigateur Internet ! En plus du flux audio, le Widget Radio Classique affiche les informations sur le morceau en cours de diffusion, le titre de l'émission et l'animateur. A tout moment un clic lance votre navigateur vers le site de Radio Classique Read More

Daniusoft Video Converter Suite 1.4.1.1 (Demo)

Video conversion package which can convert DVD and video between all popular video and audio formats. Read More

Nokia Slashes Cellphone Prices as Much as 10% [Cellphones]

Trying to put pressure on their competition, or feeling the pressure from increasing Samsung and LG market share, Nokia has reduced many handset prices by 10%—mostly music and media phones—but also... Read More

Super Soaker T-Shirt is Just Super [T-shirts]

For those of you who've finally repressed Frucci's homoerotic slow-mo watergun facial montage, we'd like to offer a piece of apparel to commemorate the occasion (and bring back painful memories). By... Read More

Ufficio Stampa Cagliari 1.1

Read news from the Press Office of the City Council of Cagliari (in Italian).

About Ufficio Stampa Cagliari This widget displays news from the Press Office of the City Council of Cagliari, updated via their RSS feed. Developed by bizConsulting S.r.l. (in Italian).

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The best way to get your band's blog on Myspace.

The best way to get your band's blog on Myspace.
While I was looking through the widget analytics data the other day, I noticed just how many bands are using our RSS reader to deliver news to their fans into social networks like Myspace and Facebook and start pages like iGoogle, Netvibes and Pageflakes.

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Grab this Led Zeppelin widget now.

Of course, I'm going to show my age here, but I had to ask who Timbaland, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Rich Boy were, and I had no clue about The Wreckers, Robin Thicke or Faith Hill but when I found out that the official Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin and Michael Jackson's Thriller profiles were using our widgets I had to spread the word.

Admittedly, Timbaland may get a bit more play these days, but I spent so much time listening to my Zeppelin albums and tapes that I wore them out. And the Beastie boys Licensed to Ill was awesome and played non-stop while cruising in my 66 Mustang in the 80's. (I really am old)

If you have a band, take a look at how some of the other artists I mentioned above implemented the widgets on their Myspace pages and feel free to use our widgets or our platform to promote your own news or events to your fans.

We don't charge for bands to use our RSS reaader, so it's probably the lowest cost investment that you'll make in your popularity. If you are feeling generous, we'll take concert tickets, CD's and backstage passes if you have any to spare ;-)

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If you are a band and add a SpringWidgets express RSS reader to your page to promote your website or blog, please add a comment below and let us know where to find it.

Rock on and build your own RSS express widget today.

3 things you really want to know about RSS

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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Opell Video to AVI MPEG MOV RM FLV iPod PSP 3GP Zune Converter 2.1.14 (Demo)

The all in one software able to convert video file formats. Read More

Smart UML Designer Beta 1 (Freeware)

Smart UML Designer Beta 1 (Freeware)
A simple to use tool that allows you to create your own ULM schemas.

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:

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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!

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TheSpringBox 1.1.3

TheSpringBox 1.1.3
Hey Guys. Today we've got an update of our desktop platform for you. Most of the updates are purely cosmetic, but we hope they will improve you SpringWidgets experience:

• Visual Updates


• Lock your widgets on your screen


• Performance updates


• Widgets are now stored under My Documents

Happy Holidays Everyone,
- The SpringWidgets Team

Liz Strauss Invites You to Show Off Your Blog

Liz Strauss Invites You to Show Off Your Blog
Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is giving you a chance to promote your blog to the world in her Showcase Your Blog at Successful-Blog July 26-27, 2008. This is a great chance to showcase your blog to thousands of bloggers and fans on the blog by the founder of the popular Successful and Outstanding [...]

Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is giving you a chance to promote your blog to the world in her Showcase Your Blog at Successful-Blog July 26-27, 2008.

This is a great chance to showcase your blog to thousands of bloggers and fans on the blog by the founder of the popular Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) and author of the fast selling ebook, The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works.

To particpate, check out the instructions in the announcement of the Blog Showcase and email your blog title, URL, blog tagline, a sentence of two about what makes your blog worth visiting, and some advice on blogging or a colorful bloggy quote. The deadlines is Saturday July 26, 2008.

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GoogleWidgets 0.1

GoogleWidgets 0.1
A collections of Google Widgets, Tip’s and Trick’s, Script’s and Search Tools !

About GoogleWidgets Get the best of Google Widgets: - Get Yahoo(PC/Mac) and Mac OS X Dashboard(Mac) Widgets - Get Tip’s and Trick’s - Get Script,s - Get Google Search Tools

RSS advertising with Bidvertiser

RSS advertising with Bidvertiser

There are already several options for RSS advertising but Bidvertiser has decided to enter the market and offer publishers the opportunity to sell advertising in their RSS feeds. Of course this also means advertisers will also be able to buy ads in RSS feeds.

Advertising with RSS

With the much larger subscriber numbers for RSS feeds it has become more viable for advertising to appear within an RSS feed. An ad in an RSS feed means that the ad will only appear in the feed rather than on the site.

As RSS subscribers tend to be more interested in the content the ads could be more effective if targeted correctly. Bidvertisers feed advertising program is in public beta and offers RSS advertising and allows RSS publishers to sell RSS ads. It will be interesting to see how it progresses compared the Feedvertiser program.

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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... Read More

Latest Financial Information 1.0

Latest financial news from Yahoo! Finance.

About Latest Financial Information An RSS based widget that displays top 5 news stories from Yahoo! Finance.

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The value of an RSS subscriber at 30 dollars

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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Please help find Madeline

British 3 year old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz holiday village(Algarve, Portugal) on Thursday 3rd of May 2007. There is currently a £100,000 reward for the safe return of Madeleine.

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If you have any information please call the police on (00 351) 218 641 000.

For more information, downloadable posters, and to donate to the cause, visit the official website set up by Madeleine's parents: www.bringmadeleinehome.com

If you have information on Madeleine please use the phone numbers above and do not try and make contact through SpringWidgets.

This post is independent of any media or law enforcement agencies and has no connections to the McCann family and is here to promote awareness only. Read More

CurrencyConverter 0.9.2

CurrencyConverter 0.9.2
Easily calculate currency conversions between more than 190 world currencies (almost every traded currency in the world), plus all the old legacy European currencies.

About CurrencyConverter Easily calculate currency conversions between more than 190 world currencies, plus all the old legacy European currencies, some world legacy currencies and even unrecognized currencies and virtual currencies (like the Linden Dollar from Second Life). - Automatically updated exchange rates - Support for almost all the traded currencies of the world - Support the old legacy european currencies (like Italian lira, Deutsch mark, French francs) - Support multi currencies conversions (you can add all the currencies you want to the conversion table) - Support inverse conversion (just type an * before the value to convert to enter the inverse mode) - Support math expression evaluation: just enter a simple math expression and the result will be converted - Support multiple widget instances, so that you can keep open more than a conversion table, each with a set of preferred currencies - You can choose the desired decimal precision, from one to five decimals - You can choose your preferred interface theme - The widget displays the currencies signs and the country flag - Added support to the computation of the exchange taxes - Localized in English, Italian, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Russian, Greek, Polish, Traditional Chinese and Japanese (all the currency names are localized, too).

Awesome Photo Gallery/Google Maps Mashup

I recently was contacted by James Sanders who created a really cool Photo Gallery and Google Maps Mashup. They installed and customized the Photo Gallery Plugin such that a little thumb tack is displayed on a map of the world... Read More

iPhone Apps We Like: Palringo is First Official Multi-Client IM App [IPhone Apps]

iPhone Apps We Like: Palringo is First Official Multi-Client IM App [IPhone Apps]
Palringo is a free multi-client instant messaging app for mobiles that hit the App Store over the weekend, and it's the first to officially support Google Talk/Jabber, on top of Windows Live...

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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Fund Manager Advisor 9.0 Beta 2 / 8.10 (Trial)

Fund Manager Advisor 9.0 Beta 2 / 8.10 (Trial)
An useful program for financial advisors, representatives, or broker/dealers

Checking your own RSS feeds

Checking your own RSS feeds

Are you checking your own RSS feeds, are you subscribed to your own feeds. If not then how do you know your feed is working properly. This is something I have come across, I have noticed on both my own and other bloggers feeds that sometimes your feed breaks.

The simplest thing you can do is subscribe to your feed in your feed reader. Create a separate folder to accommodate just your own feeds so you know exactly where they are. Now every time you make a post your new post will appear in your feed reader.

When you do your usual daily RSS trawl you will be reminded to check your feed. If there is anything amiss you will know about it sooner rather than later. I have emailed many a webmaster to tell them that their feed is broken. I mean who reads their own feeds, right.

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Please help find Madeline

Please help find Madeline
British 3 year old Madeleine McCann was abducted from her apartment bedroom in Praia da Luz holiday village(Algarve, Portugal) on Thursday 3rd of May 2007. There is currently a £100,000 reward for the safe return of Madeleine.

Get this widget!

If you have any information please call the police on (00 351) 218 641 000.

For more information, downloadable posters, and to donate to the cause, visit the official website set up by Madeleine's parents: www.bringmadeleinehome.com

If you have information on Madeleine please use the phone numbers above and do not try and make contact through SpringWidgets.

This post is independent of any media or law enforcement agencies and has no connections to the McCann family and is here to promote awareness only.

Liz Strauss is Breaking the Web and Pushing WordPress

Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is attempting to “break the web” today at noon CST from Chicago (GMT -6). As part of her Showcase Your Blog series, she will be using the future post feature in WordPress to publish a blog post a minute showcasing more than 250 blogs. Has anyone set up WordPress [...]

Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is attempting to “break the web” today at noon CST from Chicago (GMT -6). As part of her Showcase Your Blog series, she will be using the future post feature in WordPress to publish a blog post a minute showcasing more than 250 blogs.

Has anyone set up WordPress to do this before? Maybe some splogs or scrapers, but this is an exciting example of how a community project can use the WordPress future post feature, and push WordPress and the server to keep up with the server and database load. Liz is part of the b5media network, so this is a test of their setup as well.

Liz tells me that the blogs she is showcasing are excellent, some of the most exciting, beautiful, and social blogs around, so you are in for a treat as you watch her Blog Showcase churn out, minute by minute. I wonder what the traffic count is going to be on her blog’s front page. Luckily, she’s using Woopra to track her traffic, stats, and visitors live. What fun!

Go check out the minute-by-minute Blog Showcase! You can also follow the Twitter stream at b2show.

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Say Cheese 2.8

A new way to view your most favorite comics.

About Say Cheese Say Cheese is a new way to view your most favorite comics. Supported comics: Adam@Home, B.C., Calvin And Hobbes, Close To Home, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Dilbert, Drabble, FoxTrot, Garfield, Get Fuzzy, Kevin And Kell, Liberty Meadows, Little Gamers, Luann, Monty, Mother Goose & Grimm, Nuklear Power, Over The Hedge, Peanuts, Pearls ‘fore Swine, Penny Arcade, Rose Is Rose, Shoe, Sinfest, Sluggy Freelance, UserFriendly.

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12Ghosts Screen Saver 9.50.132.5502 (Shareware)

12Ghosts Screen Saver 9.50.132.5502 (Shareware)
You control which clicks and keys wake up this screen saver

85 Famous Works of Art 'Improved' via Modern Technology [Photoshop Contest]

For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to put modern technology in famous works of art. I've got to be honest, these might be the best results from a Photoshop Contest yet. The wide range of... Read More

Editing an Item in Your Queue

Media Manager provides an easy way for you to edit the items on your queue. From the main screen you can click "Edit Item" to reveal a hidden form to update the basics about the item. The "hidden" edit... Read More

IBM

IBM
The IBM Widget gives you access to various IBM functions and information. For example: IBM news, the latest special offers from IBM, contact information for IBM employees (and for customers we recognize, their account rep. information as well). In addition, you can search IBM's web site and also get IBM stock price information.

Editing an Item in Your Queue

Editing an Item in Your Queue
Media Manager provides an easy way for you to edit the items on your queue. From the main screen you can click "Edit Item" to reveal a hidden form to update the basics about the item. The "hidden" edit...

TheSpringBox 1.1.3

Hey Guys. Today we've got an update of our desktop platform for you. Most of the updates are purely cosmetic, but we hope they will improve you SpringWidgets experience:

• Visual Updates


• Lock your widgets on your screen


• Performance updates


• Widgets are now stored under My Documents

Happy Holidays Everyone,
- The SpringWidgets Team Read More

Steep and Cheap Widget 1.10

A widget that will display the latest item on the SteepAndCheap.com web site

About Steep and Cheap Widget A widget that will display the latest item on the SteepAndCheap.com web site. The item name, picture and price are displayed, together with a gauge for the number of items available for purchase and the percentage off the MSRP for that item. Clicking on the description will take you to the site where this can be purchased. Rolling the mouse over the item image will show the description of that item in the same window. The widget provides the ability to set a “refresh” time in case it is displayed continuously. Normally the refresh happens every time the widget becomes visible.

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Liz Strauss Invites You to Show Off Your Blog

Liz Strauss Invites You to Show Off Your Blog
Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is giving you a chance to promote your blog to the world in her Showcase Your Blog at Successful-Blog July 26-27, 2008. This is a great chance to showcase your blog to thousands of bloggers and fans on the blog by the founder of the popular Successful and Outstanding [...]

Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers is giving you a chance to promote your blog to the world in her Showcase Your Blog at Successful-Blog July 26-27, 2008.

This is a great chance to showcase your blog to thousands of bloggers and fans on the blog by the founder of the popular Successful and Outstanding Bloggers Conference (SOBCon) and author of the fast selling ebook, The Secret to Writing a Successful and Outstanding Blog — The Insider’s Guide to the Conversation That’s Changing How Business Works.

To particpate, check out the instructions in the announcement of the Blog Showcase and email your blog title, URL, blog tagline, a sentence of two about what makes your blog worth visiting, and some advice on blogging or a colorful bloggy quote. The deadlines is Saturday July 26, 2008.

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Football widgets are in season!

With football season fast approaching, now is the best time to put the spotlight on our Sports Scoreboard widget and the NFL Gametrax widget. These two widgets are quite possibly the best sports focused widgets ever built. At least that's what our moms say ;-)

The Gametrax widget pulls in all the currently playing games for the NFL and displays them complete with play by play action and game leaders! (can you say fantasy?)

That's a live Gametrax widget to the left, clicking on the "game" tab will show you the play by play action if there is a game currently being played.

Our Scoreboard widget pulls in a complete list of all games playing complete with live scores for the NFL (excluding preseason), MLB, NBA, NHL, College Football and College Basketball leagues.

The great thing about the Scoreboard widget is that it can be dynamically sized. It will drop down as small as 160 pixels wide so that it will fit on most blog sidebars. If you have a sports blog, this is really the best way to share scores with your readers.

The scoreboard widget set to 160 pixels wide for blog sidebar placement. You can also set the default league shown to be MLB, NFL, NHL, NBA, CBK or CFB

Each league in the scoreboard gets yesterday's, tomorrow's and today's games in a tabbed format and you can set the initial display of the widget to default to any of those tabs for any league when the widget first loads.

In the yesterday tab, the final game scores along with a win/loss indicator on each team shows you quickly who was on top. Tomorrow's tab shows the game time and teams playing so that you can better plan which sports bar to visit to watch the most games at once, and the today tab shows off live in game scores on all games in the list complete with some in game leader information.

Now for the really cool info... For those of you who have our desktop application installed, the scoreboard widget really begins to shine after you download it.

Flip to the preference panel in the desktop sports Scoreboard widget and enable "docking" and you'll be able to drag the widget to the sidebar for all day sports tracking ability even when your work apps are open.

Take a few minutes and play with the widgets and feel free to use them for your desktop, blog or social network profile. If you think our moms are right and these are the best sports widgets that have ever been built, let us know.

If you are interested in more sports related widgets, search the gallery for sports. So far we have 109 sports related widgets that have been created ranging everywhere from Ask Men's Health and Sports News to the Worland Middle School Sports Schedule.

-Don

click the thumbnail to see what the Scoreboard looks like when docked on your desktop.

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Gawker Media Fall Internships [Interns]

Gawker Media Fall Internships [Interns]
Gawker Media is hiring three fall interns to work in its New York office. Office Intern Handle a variety of administrative tasks for all Gawker Media properties. Proficiency with Excel, experience...

StickiesPlus 1.0

A sticky note widget that allows you to create a new note directly from the existing sticky notes.

About StickiesPlus The widget is basically a modified version of the Apple provided Stickies. However, this widget allows you to create new sticky notes directly from existing stickies. The user simply has to hold the Option key (alt key) and then click the green plus sign button on the upper right side of the widget. This is also explained on the flip side of the widget.

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Technorati Claiming set-up

Technorati Claiming set-up
Technorati Profile