Konfabulator. Rainmeter. Screenlets. Kapsules. Nine cool CD Art Display skins to showcase your music. CD Art Display is a great little utility that puts the album art for the music you're listening to right on your desktop. It works with numerous players (iTunes, Foobar2000, Winamp, Helium, Windows Media Player, and more), and it shows you the album art for whatever track is currently playing with a beautiful skin. The art has to be in the album's folder, but if you don't already have it, CD Art Display can help you find it (it has a feature for automatically downloading covers).
Since it already interfaces with your player, CD Art Display also lets you switch to the next or previous track, pause/play, change the volume, and even rate the song and find and display its lyrics (right in the program, not in a pop-up browser window). It's pretty neat stuff! CD Art Display isn't new; the last stable version (2.0.1) was released on September 8, 2009. There are currently over 200 skins in the official gallery, so picking nine was tricky. Speaking of large, here's another chunky skin.
How to build a web widget (using jQuery) - Alex Marandon. Published on 15 June 2010, updated on 10 February 2015, 110 Comments Introduction I created some web widgets for the London’s Design Museum and learned a few useful things in the process. Although all the necessary information can be found on the web, I couldn’t find a really comprehensive guide about doing this with jQuery so I decided to write this one. I’ll cover only techniques which are specific to web widgets so you should already be familiar with JavaScript, jQuery and web development if you want to follow easily. The interesting points will be: ensure the widget’s code doesn’t accidentally mess up with the rest of the page, dynamically load external CSS and JavaScript files, bypass browsers’ single-origin policy using JSONP.
Don’t worry if all this doesn’t make sense to you yet, we’ll see in details what these techniques are used for in the context of building web widgets. That’s really all that a web site owner would need to include our widget on her pages. Can’t it be even simpler? Free Web-Based Widget Tools for Website Owners. Everyone already knows that when it comes to building a successful blog or Website, content is king. Thanks in part to a growing number of easy-to-install widgets, you can populate your online home with a variety of interesting material that isn’t necessarily created by you. Or better yet, create your own XML feed and present your information in a fresh and exciting way. Here are several free Websites that allow you to create or pull widgets. Widgetbox All you need to create a widget is a feed of content.
This can be pulled from your blog, YouTube, Flickr, twitter and others. A Blidget allows you to turn your blog into an instant widget that can be installed by other Website owners. There are thousands of widgets available for installation. A Pro account, which costs only a few cents a day, gives the widget creator greater control.
Wowzio There is also a Feed Content Widget which will show the 50 most recent blog posts. Wowzio is getting close to over 2 million widgets served. Dijit Produle. Exhibit. AjaxDaddy - Ajax Examples in Action. Go wild with widgets. Shellscape Software. Website News - Samurize download - News. Hey everyone, NeM here. It's been a long time since I visited samurize.com but I noticed that the new site, samurize.us, is gone. So I have decided to repair and open this site up again so that Samurize users can still discuss the program, upload screenshots & other files and so forth.
If you notice any problems or errors on the website, please post them in the forums and I will fix them when I get a chance. I installed the latest Samurize version on Windows 7 (you have to enable compatibility mode for Windows XP in order to install) and it still runs fine, but I am sure there are features that are either no longer working or are glitchy. I do not have any word at this stage as to whether any further versions of Samurize will be released, but at a guess I would say no. We will keep you posted if this changes.
Thank you for supporting Samurize over the years and I hope you have enjoyed using it as much as we have enjoyed creating it Cheers,NeM UPDATE: donation button has been fixed. SpringWidgets : Widgets, MySpace Profile Gadgets, Social Network Countdown Badges & RSS Feed Readers. Xymantix Online. DeskBlox. Widgenie - Home. Widgets for Web 2.0. Web widgets, desktop widgets, widget resources, samples, tutorials @ Widgipedia.