Archive for October, 2009

Clockeasy.com equals very simple clock widgets

October 7th, 2009

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Clockeasy.com is a very straight forward, very easy clock widget generator.

Simply pick the type of clock you want. Countdown, alarm even just a block clock. Set your parameters such as color, font size and style, border thickness etc… Grab the code and paste away. (JavaScript)

Look for the 12/24 hour setting up near the ClockEasy logo to set your time display.

Here is a simple one that I quickly set up.

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Clockeasy.com

Mag.ma Widget

October 6th, 2009

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Magma (Mag.ma) is a Social Online Video Portal aiming to become The Guide for Online Video in the web. Think off it as Stumbleupon meets Digg that focuses on Online Videos, and you will get right idea. Go over here if you need a more detailed explanation.

So if the idea appeals to you, They are now open for business and they got widget you can put in your blog so you let everyone know of your contributions there and as a extra reminder of yourself of the site.

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I must say i am disappointed with it. It is merely a Widget-badge for the site and i was expect that the widget would display more advance data if you clicked on of the video slots in it. Or that i would generate a lightbox that would allow it to play. It does neither. So what you see in the photo is as good as the real thing, Minus that it links to the Landing page of the video. The only redeeming qualities of it are that it is light, it got a good look and that there is no way but up for it, once they update it. So i hope Andrew Baron (Mag.ma CEO and RocketBoom creator) makes the widgets better and more worthwhile to have. And sets up a page to show them without having to log in too.

But the website itself its good and at least there is a official widget-badge  for it, right?.

Mag.ma

2012 widgets

October 2nd, 2009

2012 is the end of the Mayan calander…and the end of the world!

…or so we are led to believe.

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wowzio/2012
widgiland/2012

Grab a 2012 countdown widget.

(javascript)

(Flash)

Find all movie trailers here

yourminis/2012


For more widgets please visit www.yourminis.com

Add Facebook Connect widget easily

October 1st, 2009
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Facebook announced on Sept.30 that adding the Facebook Connect widget to your blog just got a whole lot easier.

The popularity of Facebook never ceases to amaze and with that it is important to be able to connect it with every aspect of your social self. Email, Instant Messaging, Blog, Mobile etc… Until now… Blog was just too complicated for the masses of Facebook users.

excerpt from Techcrunch

Facebook Connect launched to the public less than a year ago, and already it’s seen an incredible amount of traction. Unfortunately, for those people with little to no coding experience, implementing Facebook Connect has seemed like more trouble that it was worth.

There has never been a more true statement!
I looked into Facebook Connect when it first arrived. I thought this would be an excellent blog post…but when I discovered how in depth it was just to implement the widget, I moved on.

Implementing Facebook Connect with the new Facebook Connect Wizard can be done in three simple steps.

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1. Enter the name of your site and its URL.
2. Download and then upload a special file to your site’s main directory.
3. Playground — This is where you will find a list of code snippets you can embed on your site. Login buttons, profile photos, publishing items to News Feeds, and rendering photos of a user’s friends. All the great stuff you need for your blog and Facebook connection!

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I almost forgot to mention…Facebook also announced that it has seen fit to make the implementation of Facebook Connect easy on a global front with a translation tool called “Translations for Facebook Connect”

sources:
cnet
TechCrunch
Mashable

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