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Ballmer: Microsoft says the future's green

News Yello Strom's managing director Martin Vesper demonstrated a "Yello-saving counter" - a Vista widget that lets consumers monitor their home power via a PC. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has claimed that more efficient use of IT is one of...

Tags: windows xp, consumers, operating system, machines

[06 Mar 2008]

MSDN Webcast: Using Web Services in Your Gadget or Widget on Windows Live (Level 200)

whitepaper Gadget and widget platforms, such as Windows Live, have a natural integration with sites, such as eBay, through Web services. Gadgets are great for monitoring the status of ever-changing data; the eBay marketplace is always in flux.

Tags: web services

[27 Feb 2008]

Photos: Accenture waves goodbye to the wallet

Photo Here Accenture is showing off a widget system for mobile phones that could provide access to corporate information such as ERP data. The SMS is on the wall for crumpled notes and battered leather wallets as Accenture Technology Labs shows off the...

Tags: nfc, mobile phone, rfid, bank

[31 Jan 2008]

Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day

Photo It's a large touchscreen with a range of widget-like apps designed to be used in the home. Microsoft hosted its fourth Innovation Day in Brussels this week with partner organisations showing off the tech wares they predict could take off in the...

Tags: events, car, credit, house

[06 Dec 2007]

SWT: SWT CoolBars

whitepaper Although a ToolItem object appears as a button on the ToolBar, a CoolItem serves only as a container for other widget types - Combo, Text, or Button. A CoolBar is like a ToolBar on steroids. Like ToolBar and ToolItems, CoolBar is a container to...

Tags: application development, interface, container, toolbar

[17 Oct 2007]

Google Maps Hacks: Find the Best Gasoline Prices

whitepaper widget=36500. This is a widget that will run under Konfabulator for Windows and Mac OS X (the grass is greener on both sides) and shows one the best prices for gas. To install the widget one needs Konfabulator (http://www.konfabulator.com/ download).

Tags: search strategies, mac, gas, google maps

[10 Oct 2007]

Dynamically Generate a Selection List in a Rails Template

whitepaper Unlike the typical manner in which a web widget is generated in a web page, the user chooses the content for the pop-up, and then the pop-up appears out of the blue, without anything else on the page changing.

Tags: programming languages, pop, server side, element

[10 Oct 2007]

Submit Text Field or Textarea Values to the Server Without a Browser Refresh

whitepaper The application code waits for the text widget's onblur event to occur, then uses the request object to send just the data from that field or textarea. Ajax applications can automatically send to a server program the information that the user has...

Tags: web browsers, send, field, program

[10 Oct 2007]

Debug Ajax-Generated Tags in Firefox

whitepaper Firefox, however, includes a DOM Inspector tool that shows these newly generated tags in a detailed hierarchical tree-type widget. View ? ยจ Page Source has always been a popular (if primitive) programmer tool for inspecting a web page's code, but...

Tags: web browsers, source, tool, code

[10 Oct 2007]

New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki

whitepaper By wrapping a widget in this way, one can encapsulate it in a modular unit and also give it the benefits of any JSP tag handler or JavaServer Faces component. Project jMaki gives a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in the web applications.

Tags: java, component, faces, tag

[01 Oct 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 14.09.07

Round-Up The other eye is watching his specially customised Vista sales ticker widget update slowly - ever so slowly - on his desktop. Steve Ballmer is a troubled man. The Microsoft CEO has one eye on an internal memo about 'the EU' and it's bothering him.

Tags: round-up

[14 Sep 2007]

New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki

whitepaper By wrapping a widget in this way, one can encapsulate it in a modular unit and also give it the benefits of any JSP tag handler or JavaServer Faces component. Project jMaki gives a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in the web applications.

Tags: java, component, faces, tag

[11 Sep 2007]

New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki

whitepaper By wrapping a widget in this way, one can encapsulate it in a modular unit and also give it the benefits of any JSP tag handler or JavaServer Faces component. Project jMaki gives a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in the web applications.

Tags: java, component, faces, tag

[11 Sep 2007]

Chinwag Live: Media Widgetised - 16th May 2007

whitepaper The event was part of the world's first 'Widget Week'. Mobile widgets, RSS aggregators and personalised start pages are all new ways to access content, but how are they related? The fifth Chinwag Live event on 16th May 2007 looked at the impact of...

Tags: sales - marketing, widgets, event, advertising

[01 Aug 2007]

Rendering HTML Using the Brew uiOne Toolkit

whitepaper The htmlwidget, an optional widget bundled with the SDK and used by the uiOne trigplayer, can be used to display HTML in applications using the Brew uiOne Toolkit (BUIT) just as any other widget might.

Tags: html, widget, named, play

[11 Jul 2007]

UIML.Net: An Open UIML Renderer for the .Net Framework

whitepaper This paper introduces the first UIML renderer for the .Net framework; a framework that can be accessed by different kinds of programming languages and can use different kinds of widget sets. As the diversity of available computing devices increases...

Tags: uml, library, interface, user interface

[15 Jun 2007]

Using Web Services in Your Gadget/Widget

whitepaper Gadget/Widget platforms, such as live.com, have a natural integration with sites, such as eBay, using Web services. Gadgets are great for monitoring the status of ever-changing data; the eBay marketplace is always in flux.

Tags: web services, sites, platforms, marketplace

[31 Mar 2007]

Enhancing Swing Applications

whitepaper These application range from IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ) to web browsers (Firefox and Opera) to dedicated widget hosts (Yahoo Widgets [a.k.a. The application developers provide the basic functionality and the API to extend the basic...

Tags: widgets, end user, functionality, installed

[08 Dec 2006]

Apple offers glimpse of Leopard

News Custom widgets can be created with Web Clip, which can take information from any regularly updated web page and display it as a widget in Dashboard. CEO Steve Jobs showed off the shiny metal desktop, which will start shipping immediately, as he...

Tags: mac pro, leopard, mac os x, os x

[08 Aug 2006]

Apple snooping startles Mac users

News One feature it added was described as the ability to verify that a widget was an authentic program. The Dashboard Advisory feature is a security tool that ensures that the correct version of a widget has been downloaded from a third-party site and...

Tags: dashboard, widgets, widget, snooping

[06 Jul 2006]

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