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:

Dock Widgetop with Fluid (Mac OS X only)

Quite a while ago we showed you how to integrate the Widgetop webtop into your Windows desktop or your Linux desktop with the help of Mozillas Prism platform. While you can use Prism to add Widgetop to your Mac there is a much better alternative – Fluid. Its current version is much better integrated into the Mac desktop then Prism (but requires Leopard though).

Just download Fluid, run it and create a new entry for Widgetop. You will get:

• A link to Widgetop in your Programs folder.
• Run it and you will see the Widgetop icon appear in the dock like any other Mac application. Just login to your desktop (or create a new account) and your Widgetop desktop is just a click away.
• By choosing Convert to Embedded SSB from the Widgetop menu you can even put your widgets on the Mac desktop itself.

Hints:

• In addition to your own Widgetop desktop you can run one or many of the shared desktops from http://www.widgetop.com/shared.html. Just give them a distinct icon for better differentiation.
• If you want to use better icon you can download and use this:
  

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

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:

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.

Popular Language Translator Widget updated

Our very popular Language Translator widget (#1 on Apple’s Top 50 list for several weeks) has been updated to a new version. Now it translates text between 22 different foreign languages.

You can download the update from here or test it on Widgetop before.

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.

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