Heaptop

≡Heaptop is a similar widget desktop to Widgetop but with a different focus. It’s about keeping all the current info in one place which are useful for the moment and your current location. It’s optimized for desktop, mobile phone and tablets and cab be customized by adding different widgets for time, calendar, location and much more. Just give it a try:

heaptop.com

or download the App on your phone or tablet:

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New Widget Download: Sunset

This applications helps to calculate the sunrise and sunset times of your current location or each location in world on each day of the year. Enjoy planning your next holiday, trip or photo session where ever and when ever you want to go.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

New Widget Download: Countries

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the world is this country? This widget shows each country of the world on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

New Widget Download: States

Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the USA is this state? This widget shows each state of the USA on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

New Widget Download: Thesaurus

Retrieve the synonym for every word. If available you will get antonyms, related terms, similar word and user suggestions too. Click one of the results to start a quick new search for that term. As well it keeps a history list of your search terms.

Thesaurus service provided by words.bighugelabs.com.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget:

New Widget Download: Photo Finder

We just made our new Photo Finder widget available on the Widgetop web desktop and on our downloads page.

Get inspired by finding out what photos others have shot on a certain location. Adjust the map to the area you want and get the most popular or most recent photos from Panoramio. You can put this application as a widget on your website from http://photofinderwidget.speedymarks.com.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget: photofinder.speedymarks.com

New Widget Download: Slideshow

We just made our new Photo Slideshow widget available on the Widgetop web desktop and on our downloads page.

This widgets displays slide shows from images in RSS feeds. Either select the most recent feed from Flickr or Photobucket or enter your own feed URL. The feed can parameterized by using %s in the URL which will be replaced by the tags from the front side.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version of this widget: phototags.speedymarks.com

Dashboard widgets on your iPhone homescreen

We are happy to announce a new feature:

Now you can run single Dashboard widgets from our catalog standalone without loading your Mobile Widgetop Desktop first. This makes it possible put them on the homescreen of the iPhone and access them very quickly.

How To

• Go to the Mobile Widgetop Desktop with the Safari browser: m.widgetop.com
• Just open the Add Widget page on your iPhone by tapping this icon:
• Browse the catalog and select the widget you want.
• Tap the the new Open as Application button:

• It opens a new browser window with the selected widget:

• If you want to bookmark the widget or put it on your home screen just press the little plus sign at the bottom bar of Safari:

Limitations

The standalone widgets on your home screen won’t make your desktop obsolete because there are a few limitations:

• All widgets of the same type share their settings. This means there can only be one instance per widget type.
• The settings for each widget are stored in a local cookie on the iPhone. They aren’t synced back to our server and you can’t modify them from your desktop computer. If you clear the cookies you will lose all settings (You can remove the settings for a single widget type by tapping the icon on the tool bar).

So the standalone feature will be perfect mostly for tool widgets like calculators, which don’t store any important state and need one instance only.

RSS Awareness Day

Today is the RSS Awareness Day. Don’t miss one of our RSS feeds:

• New Widgets
• Updates Widgets
• Top Widgets
• Featured Widgets

And don’t forget to check our RSS widget which makes it easy to read your RSS feeds on your Widgetop Desktop or the iPhone.

Problems solved

You might have noticed that your Widgetop desktop became quite slow lately. Especially the reload of your widgets (which fortunately shouldn’t have happened happen too often) took much longer than it should be.

We worked hard to find the bottlenecks and we succeeded. Now Widgetop should be again as fast as you expect it to be. Thanks for your patience.