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: 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 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.

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 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