Turnin' up the heat
By SC.sagar. Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:08:16 PM
The Opera India widget team has boldly accepted a daunting task - make countless number of widgets at break-neck speed. We hope to raise the temperature and make it go through our new office's roof!

To your right, you will see the start of the team's brave efforts, having just uploaded the first counted widget.
Tell us what kind of widgets you have been dreaming of, and we will try our best to incorporate them in our never-ending list. Comment now!


Tamil # Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:10:34 PM
babox # Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:19:09 PM
You could use this site http://www.livescore.com/ , if possible.
Thanks
Daniel Goldmandanigoldman # Thursday, June 21, 2007 4:14:24 PM
Anonymous # Thursday, June 21, 2007 5:40:33 PM
FataL # Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:05:45 PM
Anonymous # Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:14:34 PM
Thodi # Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:20:05 PM
Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:22:02 PM
But a widget that allows you to post stuff to and visit sites from many different social bookmarking sites would be awesome.
I don't have any ideas that I can share now. But I'll try to think up something good.
chesss # Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:40:36 PM
A widget that can 'hold' all other widgets. So that instead of having several widgets crammed around and blocking my alt+tab, there is only one widget.
Not sure if this is even possible..
2. Widget that detects website open in current tab, and accordingly changes content. Say if I am visiting digg.com it shows a particular page(fit-to-widthed).
Again not sure if its possible.
Galileo # Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:44:20 PM
Zotlan # Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:55:37 PM
Incidentally, could you do something like this for UserJS scripts?
Anonymous # Thursday, June 21, 2007 8:44:18 PM
Hans Bendiksenhansbendiksen # Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:32:51 PM
Anonymous # Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:53:18 PM
S Pshrivipha # Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:33:18 PM
Thanks!
Aleksandersen # Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:44:32 PM
My idea for a widget is pretty simple:
I want a percentage view that wll show how many percent (of total bandwidth) of the current website where fetched from cache.
60% would show that 60% where fetched from cache, and 40% from the web. This could be calculated in three steps:
1) Measure the total bandwidth used,
2) measure file size fetched from cache, and
3) find the difference between the two values.
Thanks in advance!
This ideea where originally intended to be an Firefox extension.
Aleksandersen # Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:46:38 PM
Aleksandersen # Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:48:02 PM
Aleksandersen # Thursday, June 21, 2007 11:50:17 PM
I would personally prefer page loading time and cache analytics/metrics widgets.
Tristen # Friday, June 22, 2007 12:06:59 AM
Anonymous # Friday, June 22, 2007 4:58:31 AM
vd2k # Friday, June 22, 2007 8:57:16 AM
Currency converter for more than 2 currencies at a time, i.e. USD=GBP=EUR
2nd.
I would like to use an Amazon-widget, that shows me the prices of an item in USD, EUR and GBP on their different websites. This should be possible, because if you query Amazon.de and find an item on the site you only need to change the .de into .com or .co.uk to get the same item from a different country.
3rd.
To create the necessary global awareness: a HIV/AIDS, malaria, sleeping sickness and tbc barometer. Just like the World Population widget. My inspiration: HIV/AIDS barometer and MSF Access Campaign.
Some statistics:
-Every 7 seconds a person dies of HIV/AIDS.
-A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.
-Every minute a person dies of tuberculosis.
-Sleeping sickness: 60,000 persons die per year.
4th.
A Windows Live Mail checker.
5th.
Easy one. Opera Cross Platform Version Update, i.e. Windows, Wii, Linux, Mobile etc. etc.
6th.
Add a search box to existing Google Maps widgets.
A thousand thanX!
Anonymous # Friday, June 22, 2007 9:36:35 AM
Zolizoligrg89 # Friday, June 22, 2007 12:09:28 PM
SC.sagar # Friday, June 22, 2007 2:03:09 PM
If any of you would like to volunteer and help us in creating some of these widgets do let us know!
And keep the comments coming. We're loving the new ideas!
Anonymous # Friday, June 22, 2007 4:44:49 PM
gaild82 # Friday, June 22, 2007 6:36:08 PM
The first thing when I saw this? Was how the males in my family would go nuts if there were a cricket widget - something that would automatically update with the latest scores on a game (or multiple games!) Of course, being in america now, my mind is drawn to football scores (but soccer scores would pwn EVERYTHING)
The thing that would make me most happy is a proper text to html via a WYSIWYG editor - specifically for all the blogs. Half the time I forget my html tags, so being able to type a message add a pic with a click of a button and a link too, and then just copy the code? would make life easier. I'd specifically like one developed for livejournal in future ( with their lj-user= tags etc.) but any widget to improve the blogging experience would be great.
Developer widgets? Hell yes. I've wanted a color picker - and better yet, after using a color picker, being able to increase/decrease saturation and brightness and maybe mix a color with another like so:
color 1 blend 1 blend 2 blend 3 blend 4 color 2
Blend 1 is closer in color to color 1 and blend 4 is closer in color to color 2.
Or if all else fails, a colourlovers.com widget for quick inspiration on color schemes.
Maybe a widget that can extract links from a selected area on a page? I sometimes get links that I need to organize and label and copying and pasting them raw into a text files is such a pain (especially when there were 200+ links like yesterday...) There are link extractor programs but a lot of them cost a pretty penny or are download managers.
My roomie would love a widget that taps into Google talk or msn or AIM (or multiple IM applications, lol).
A mapquest widget (as opposed to google maps) would be beyond awesome since it would make travelling quite a bit faster since directions would be a click away.
Finally, I'd like a widget that automatically get's the latest posts on my livejournal friend's page. Totally a luxury but it would make me bouncy ( plus more livejournal widgets would convince my friends to use Opera, haha)
IMO, if y'all want to make widgets more popular, cater to the social networks (myspace, hi5, friendster etc.) blogs (livejournal, blogger etc.) and the web 2.0 sites (youtube, daily motion, crunchy roll etc.) Usage would go through the roof.
Good luck with the widget!marathon XD
Anonymous # Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:08:55 AM
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Anonymous # Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:11:55 AM
Anshul AgrawalAnshulAgrawal # Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:42:35 AM
Anyways, some widget ideas:
Encarta Dictionary Lookup
Craigslist Search
Cricket Score
Online Radio Player
Anonymous # Saturday, June 23, 2007 6:00:39 PM
Anonymous # Saturday, June 23, 2007 8:36:13 PM
Eidolen # Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:32:52 PM
I really think it should be integrated into all browsers but there must be a reason it isn't and it probably has something to do with security. Maybe a widget would be a good way to accomplish this.
I've already posted to the Opera Desktop wish-list forum as have others wanting this capability. I know it would make a ton of people happy who get so caught up in their thoughts and forget to copy to notes before hitting the submit button only to have the browser crash or the site time you out.
I even have a name for it. The Sanity Saving Safety Net. =D
Crosses Fingers...
Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Saturday, June 23, 2007 10:46:39 PM
Widgets are web applications and not necessarily browing enhancements.
Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Monday, June 25, 2007 7:55:12 AM
Slightly off topic, but I think the My Opera shoutboxes should have a whisper feature.
LaliLali19871014 # Monday, June 25, 2007 11:52:06 AM
Zolizoligrg89 # Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:30:44 AM
vd2k # Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:38:58 PM
Zolizoligrg89 # Friday, July 13, 2007 11:14:12 AM
I use this service to send free SMS.
They support many widgets, including WinVista, AppleDashborad ,yahoo and google. It would be very nice and useful if you could make an opera widget to
AyushAyushJ # Friday, July 13, 2007 5:19:30 PM
Callwave Text Messaging
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