Neowin Dashboard Widget

[+StevoFC MVC]

After having a short beta release, my Neowin Dashboard Widget is complete enough to be relased on a larger scale so here it is.

There are 2 known bugs/issues:

1. If you click another feed before the "Loading" message goes away it will never stop saying Loading. You will have to close the widget and open it again to make it go away.

2. The Forum feed is spaced apart more than the others, but that is a problem with the actual feed itself and not the widget.

Click Here to download.

Thanks to Timan for his mockup.

Clicking the Neowin logo in the upper left of the widget will take you to Neowin.net.

Update: Here's another widget to match the main one.

NeowinCAST

Download NeowinCAST widget.

Edited June 3, 2008 by StevoFC

[mtber]

Im gonna assume that this works with both OS X and Vista

[Slimy]

Im gonna assume that this works with both OS X and Vista

Nope, only OS X.

[mtber]

Nope, only OS X.

Thats pretty sweet.

[Calum Veteran]

That looks absolutley amazing +StevoFC. Are you planning on developing a gadget for Windows Vista's 'Windows Sidebar' at all? I would love it if you were considering that. Obviously though that one is currently too big for the Windows Sidebar, but I'm sure you'd figure it out lol.

On another note, please may you tell me where you and other staff and +Subscribers got the new signature badges please?

I can't find them anywhere :s

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[Cara Veteran]

After having a short beta release, my Neowin Dashboard Widget is complete enough to be relased on a larger scale so here it is.

There are 2 known bugs/issues:

1. If you click another feed before the "Loading" message goes away it will never stop saying Loading. You will have to close the widget and open it again to make it go away.

2. The Forum feed is spaced apart more than the others, but that is a problem with the actual feed itself and not the widget.

Click Here to download.

Thanks to Timan for his mockup.

Clicking the Neowin logo in the upper left of the widget will take you to Neowin.net.

Amazing!

Submit that to Apple for inclusion on http://www.apple.com/downloads/

https://daw.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/DS...loads/index.php

[+StevoFC MVC]

I personally won't be making a Vista Gadget because I don't use Vista. But, another MVC said that he might give it a go if he has some free time. But I can't promise anything.

@ Cara: I did submit it last night, and I have to tell you it's really annoying the way they have the submission page set up. It locks the Company Name in to whatever you have set in your profile. So it's going to say StevoFC.com for the Company but link to neowin.net. I don't understand why they have it set like that.

But anyways, who knows if/when it will be added to their list of downoads.

Thanks so far for the positive feedback. (Y)

[rage710]

Thats awesome! I really like it...!

[+StevoFC MVC]

Thats awesome! I really like it...!

Thanks :)

Does anyone have any suggestions of what they would like to see changed/added?

[Cara Veteran]

Oh, BTW StevoFC...

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/b...owinnetrss.html

Congrats. ;) Thought that you'd like to see it up on Apple's site.

[+StevoFC MVC]

Congrats. ;) Thought that you'd like to see it up on Apple's site.

I might be a little biased, but I think it's one of the best looking widgets in the whole blog & forum category. :p

[+StevoFC MVC]

Another widget.

Here's a podcast widget I created to match the main one. I made this one smaller though...

Download Here.

[Wannes]

Nice job Stevo, really nice.

[x-scratch]

those look very nice stevo

[Veedems Veteran]

Another widget.

Here's a podcast widget I created to match the main one. I made this one smaller though...

Download Here.

I wish you hadn't lol. I don't think we'll be doing anymore podcasts.

[+StevoFC MVC]

I wish you hadn't lol. I don't think we'll be doing anymore podcasts.

that's alright. the podcast one didn't take too long. Plus, if you do decide to do them it's already done. ;)

[Steve]

StevoFC

Not sure if this is possible, but for me at least, I only really read the Mac Forums here. Could you add a means to add just specific forum RSS feeds (so I can have just the Mac forums in the widget)? Maybe there's another way, but some food for thought...

Thanks for your work in creating it. :)

[mikemc2k]

I Wish you would make one for windows vista i would use it :(

[+Mystic MVC]

Thanks a lot! I can already see this saving me some time here and there down the road.

[Sophism]

Awesome thanks!

[+StevoFC MVC]

Not sure if this is possible, but for me at least, I only really read the Mac Forums here. Could you add a means to add just specific forum RSS feeds (so I can have just the Mac forums in the widget)? Maybe there's another way, but some food for thought...

There's is only 1 Apple feed defined "Apple General Discussion." I can look in to making the widget more customizable. But I'm not sure what I will come up with.

I Wish you would make one for windows vista i would use it :(

If someone wants to buy me Vista to install on my iMac then sure, I'd give it a shot. I have never tried making anything like that for Vista before though. So I'm not even sure if I would be able to.

Thanks for all the comments so far guys. (Y)

[Wannes]

I finally got around to installing it and it's just great. However, I do have one point of critique. The forum RSS feed has a lot of space between each topic. Could this be resolved?

[+StevoFC MVC]

I finally got around to installing it and it's just great. However, I do have one point of critique. The forum RSS feed has a lot of space between each topic. Could this be resolved?

That is mentioned in the original post. ;)

I'm trying to come up with a solution, but I'm not sure if it's possible due to the feed itself. Because there is only 1 css file that has to work with all feeds. If i make one that spaces the forum threads correctly then the others don't show correctly.

Edited June 7, 2008 by StevoFC

[Wannes]

*hold on*

*ok, slapped myself. I was too eager to download this and didn't read the post*

Good luck on find a solution. I'm using it anyway, it doesn't bother me much but it would satisfy the perfectionist in me.