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Get Widgetized!

Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:51:04 PM

We now have a new Opera Widgetizer website available for anyone to input their own RSS or ATOM ingredients, select a preset skin and Presto! Your own widget comes hot out the oven...err, browser.

Take a look at our new Opera Widget Generator and go widget-crazy! Be sure to check back as we plan on creating even more delicious additions.

In other news, the widgetize group is now open. Feel free to join and participate on the forums. The current feed readers are only the first step on a long journey, so once again, stay tuned...

Comments

Benjamin Joffe # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:55:25 PM

I can't wait to see what you guys come up with.

Edit: Apart from the way it minimises, what is the difference between the classic and the advanced versions?

Dan Alexandrudantesoft # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:55:38 PM

Come on, I was there 5 minutes ago and it was empty

RamūnasRamunas # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:01:10 PM

Yay

Daniel Goldmandanigoldman # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:05:57 PM

Opera needs more of these Widget-composers/generators.

Gautam Chandnagautamchandna # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:18:59 PM

Benjamin Joffe: Well, from an end user point of view they are very similar. But if you wish to create your own skin for the widgets - the Classic widget would need you to change just 2 images.

velmu # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:43:13 PM

Nice! Should promote "widget-awareness" too

Vaclav Slovacekwessan # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:01:06 PM

nice job and idea!
any multi-feed version planned? (inserting more urls in widgetize, to have similar feeds in single widget with no need to have 10 of them for similar news)

ALLY G.ALLY_G # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:38:53 PM

Hey, great job and a nice idea...
I will try it a few days and then you get my feetback.

Best Damn Tech Show, Period.bestdamntech # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:15:11 PM

Oh now that is freaking hot.

alamandrax # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:02:56 PM

aww. i was going to spend hours crafting together wonderous widgets modded from the zip file in the widgets folder. you took away all the hard work and the fun

thank you

Steve DarkenDarken # Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:22:07 PM

Ahhhhh fantastic!! Great and nice idea, Opera rulez!! Ohhhh, hummmm... Widgetize!!

Pallab DeIndyan # Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:29:16 AM

I also got widgetized.

qicaiopera # Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:34:29 AM

my feetback.

alamandrax # Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:54:43 AM

hey... how about a widgetize button? for the opera main window. you got that?

recognises the rss feed and makes a widgetizer widget (user chooses skin when adding the button to Opera).

Kinda like the Open in IE/FF buttons[operawiki.info].

ALLY G.ALLY_G # Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:15:02 AM

My try on the first day:

That looks really good

strike4s # Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:28:37 AM

i dont understand

It's Sabrina!Sabrina3363 # Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:04:17 AM

me neither. S.

Lukelukequane # Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:51:19 AM

Yay... I was making widgets that didn't work properly... this is just a hell of a lot easier to make widgets with!!!!!

Gautam Chandnagautamchandna # Thursday, July 20, 2006 11:12:08 AM

strike4s:
Sabrina3363:

Hmm.. to understand better you need to do the following:
1. Using Opera 9, visit your blog
2. Click on the small widgetize icon

icon in the address bar (or scroll to the bottom of the page and click 'Widgetize')

3. There you have it! A widget for your own blog!

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The deal with Widgetize! is that anyone, even outside of my.opera can create their own Blog/Feed reader widgets by completing 3 simple steps.

Try it out, head on over to http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/ and see how it works

alamandrax # Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:10:47 PM

The deal with Widgetize! is that anyone, even outside of my.opera can create their own Blog/Feed reader widgets by completing 3 simple steps.

Excellent. Now, let's say there are a tonne of pages that I want to widgetize, but don't want to go to the widgetize page everytime. Is there a way to make an Opera button to pick the RSS feed from the page and make it into a widget? I'd do it myself, it's just that I don't know how.