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.

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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.

RSS Feeds on Mobile Widgetop

While it is already much easier to add RSS news feeds to your Widgetop desktop we make it much simpler for the mobile and iPhone version of Widgetop as well.

Tap the Add Widget Icon then click the new RSS Icon to open the new Add News Feeds page:

Same as on the desktop version you can search for feeds by keyword or add feeds by their URL.

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

New Widget Download: Widgetop Widgets

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

See which widgets are hot, new, updated or have been featured on Widgetop. See their screenshots or add them directly to the Widgetop desktop for easy testing.

Go and download it from here.

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: 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

Mobile Widgetop Desktop polished for iPhone

Over the last weeks we polished the Mobile Widgetop Desktop to work even better on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Especially the scrollbar problems and the orientation changing behaviour has been addressed. Please give it another try if you don’t have already and don’t hesitate to let us know about any problems.

New Widget Download: The Day

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

Simple but effective daily calendar in a large and small size. Never miss again todays date and lookup dates in the past and the future.

Go and download it from here.

Don’t miss the iPhone version: