Blue Star Widget: QnA, support, comments, suggestions

Q: Where can I learn more about installing and using widgets in general?
A: http://widgets.opera.com/userguide/

Q: Where/what is the Blue Star Widget (BSW) ?
A: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6906

Q: How to use the BSW ?
A: See instructions. A quick howto is available on the widget's page and inside the widget.

C: That how to guide is too technical, I'm having trouble following it.
A: Please reply with details about the actual step you're having issues with.

C: Just wish there was a test page where we could try it.
A: Well you can always post on your blog. I'd recommend the [Post preview] button, an excellent no-harm way to test.

C: I have a great idea of improving the BSW.
A: That's the spirit! Post a detailed request below. Current ideas:

• See if a user has had other photos spotlighted
  
• Alert me when it's about time for my post
  
• Make the widget remember interesting photos until it's my time to post one
  
• Share those links so another admin can do the post for me when I'm unavailable
  
• Make a slideshow of my/the group's best-of collection
  
• Allow rating of the group's spotlighted photos, and find members with similar tastes.
  
• Instead of red for the "X is a BSF member" use blue
  
• Also generate a preview in the blog post for direct links like http://files.myopera.com/USERNAME/albums/99999/ALBUMIMAGE.jpg
  
• Include the original photo's file size
  

C: The widget did not do so well on this image
http://my.opera.com/Nowak%20Ryszard/albums/showpic.dml?album=262519&picture=3881423
A: The %20 in the username made it not see the album thumbnails. Download version 0.4 or higher
Please be on the lookout for and report any abnormal widget behaviour for strange user names or malfunctioning thumbnails.

C: The member list recently changed but the widget doesn't seem to detect that.
A: An optimistic caching method was used until version 0.4; from v.0.5 the list is refreshed on every widget start: more data to download, but you get the freshest list.


Please submit your feedback.

Oooohhhh..so very cool. I was a chicken, but I downloaded it and it worked.
I did a test run on my blog..and it worked!

Nice one

Dan, I can't get none of the address to work on the widget. It says unexpected url.
example:
http://my.opera.com/holdowicz-claude/albums/showpic.dml?picture=6207416&album=389272

Thank you again.

sorry, i'm a bit confused when reading the rule.then we can't choose the photo that belong to group's members ??may i ask why?
i actually don't understand the order of posting new emtry in group blog. does it require one 1 day 1 post or it can be many post per day?

Only post one photo per day .
No photos from members. The object is to find other photos from the Opera Community.

Then how do i know when is my turn to post

And moderator will fill up missed days?
Ok.i got it.thank you