Adding Slideshows to Widgetop

We enhanced the Add RSS Feeds section to easily add image slideshows to your Widgetop desktop. Just enter the URL of an RSS feed which contains images (e.g. from Flickr or Photobucket) and press the Add Slideshow button:

This will add our new Slideshow widget to your dewsktop:

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Dashboard Widgets in the browser sidebar

Running iPhone web applications in the browser sidebar becomes more and more popular. And it makes sense because the iPhone and the browser sidebar share the same small width restriction.

Therefore we made the little tweaks to optimize our mobile desktop for the sidebar of Firefox and the Opera panels.

How to run in Firefox sidebar:

• Open http://m.widgetop.com?ForceOnDevice and bookmark the page
• Open the properties for the just created bookmark and check Load this bookmark in the sidebar
• You might want to move the bookmark to the bookmark toolbar for quick access

How to add to Opera Panels:

Just click this link.

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.

Adding RSS Feeds to Widgetop

There is lots of valuable information available as RSS feeds. Therefore we decided to make the adding of news feeds to the widgetop desktop a lot easier. Just open Add Widget and go to the new RSS Feeds tab:

Here you can either:

• enter the URL of a RSS feed
• enter the URL of a web site which feed you want to subscribe
• search for feeds by keyword

This will add the new RSS Feed widget with the selected feed to your desktop:

New Widget Download: Language Translator

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

This widget translates any text between different languages using Googles language translation service. It can even detect the source language.

Go and download it from here.

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

Share your Widget Desktop

You might have seen the new Desktops and Sharing menus already:

We are happy to announce that we added a new feature to Widgetop. Now you can share your desktop and let your friends or even anybody else access it and see your widgets. Of course your settings are safe because a shared desktop can’t be modified by the viewers, only by yourself.

How to share your desktop:

1. You need to sign in to your desktop (or create an account if you don’t have already) because you can only share your personal desktop.
2. Click the Sharing menu (with you current sharing status) and click the Share button.
3. Enter the title, the description and whether you want to share your desktop privately or publicly. A public desktop is included in our desktops directory and can be found by searching for title and description. A private desktop is only accessible by knowing its unique desktop id. and can be further protected by an optional password.
4. Press Save and you can see the links to your shared page on the overview screen.

A shared desktop can be opened read only by this URL:

http://www.widgetop.com/shared.html?page=<desktop_id>

or as the modifiable start desktop by this URL:

http://www.widgetop.com?page=<desktop_id>

Here is the URL of the default desktop (desktop_id = default):

http://www.widgetop.com/shared.html?page=default

By clicking the Desktops menu you can open the directory of publically shared pages:

Similar to our widgets gallery you can find the newest and most popular desktops, access them alphabetically by title or search them by title and description.

Happy Sharing and impress us and all other Widgetop users with your widget desktops!

New Widget Download: iPhone Apps

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

This widget shows the latest iPhone and iPod Touch applications from Apples directory. Either see them all or filter by category.

Go and download it from here.

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

New Widget Download: Limits

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

Add values until they reach the predefined limit. Use it e.g. to check your the daily calories you eat, your weight or your expenses.

Go and download it from here.

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

New Widget Download: Last.fm Radio

We just made our new Last.fm Radio widget available on the Widgetop web desktop and on our downloads page.

Listen to your favourite music from Last.fm. Choose your personal radio stream either by artist or tag.

Go and download it from here.

New Widget Download: Webcams

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

Stay in touch with your home, famous places of the world, the current traffic conditions and much more by watching your favorite web cameras. This Webcams widget makes it easy to monitor web images which are continuously updated (like web cam pictures). The images don’t have to be produced by web cams. You can monitor any image which is updated over time like weather radars, traffic maps and so on.

Go and download it from here.

More webcams can be found on WorldWatchr