Yesterday I wrote about my experiences trying out WidgetBox and YourMinis, and I even talked a little about it with Alec in O’Flaherty #10. (Visit the podcast page to listen to the O’Flaherty Podcast in our SplashCast player without having to download the shows.) I wasn’t very happy with WidgetBox because I couldn’t get the [...]
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Revisiting WidgetBox and YourMinis
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OFlaherty Episode #10 – My Mini is YourMinis
My Mini is YourMinis Apologies for the late posting. This episode was recorded last night, the 26th of April but I only got around to posting it today. This episode features a recorded Gizmo call with O’Flaherty regular Alec Palomo. We have a but of a laugh as well as cover some MMORPG stuff and [...]
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O'Flaherty Widgets! WidgetBox and YourMinis
All this talk of Technorati possibly entering the widgets game got me looking at WidgetBox and YourMinis today. WidgetBox First off let me say that both sites are great and both offer a vast array of widgets but, for my money, YourMinis has the edge as WidgetBox makes it too much of a chore to get [...]
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Technorati to enter the widget game?
I received an email from Robert Arriaga at Technorati last night via Zoomerang to complete a Zoomerang hosted survey about widgets and widget use. I know many other Technorati users received the email as well, although I did talk to some folks on IM today that hadn’t received it. Here’s the 9 questions from the questionnaire: 1: Do [...]
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Sidebars, widgets, time wasting
I’m not really into the whole widgets and sidebar thing as I find them at best to be poor replacements for functions better handled by full applications and at worst an annoying, distracting waste of screen real estate. I’ve downloaded and installed Yahoo Widgets on more than a few occasions but invariably end up unistalling [...]
Sorry Facebook. Paddy Says – No Can Do!
“How’s it going there FB? How’s the health? Wife not getting you down? Good. Good. C’mere to me FB. I’ve been looking at all them new buttons and wigdets and “like” things you sent us t’other day and I wanted to run a few things past ya. To yer face as it were, coz, ya [...]