Mesadynamics, developer of Amnesty line of widgets today launched Amnesty Generator that can generate a Windows Vista Sidebar compatible widgets from any web widget. This includes Google Gadgets, Grazr RSS reader, and hopefully widgets from Clearspring, MuseStorm, and Widgetbox. All that users have to do is simply copy paste the web widget code to get the Sidebar widget. Since I am on XP, can’t really comment how it works out in real.
Musestorm does have Vista compatibility in plans but hasn’t made official when it will be releasing the integration.
February 15, 2007 at 11:06 pm |
[...] Adobe has launched Apollo and Microsoft has launched Windows Presentation Foundation. Applications can be built once for multiple platforms and devices through Apollo but require programming knowledge of actionscript. Microsoft’s product appeals to a broader base of programmers, and they also launched a development tool for web RIA that will appeal to those looking to leverage their javascript skill sets without having to learn new languages. Startups with similar publishing to desktop services include Desktopize and Mesadynamics (for widgets). The end result will be some truly amazing desktop apps – look at Tim Sneath’s blog and follow Ryan Stewart’s blog for sneak peaks. Check out Burton’s snowboard app, NYTimes Reader, Electric Rain, or Adobe Editions. Also watch for FineTune to launch something soon for desktop (they are already on the Wii!). [...]
April 18, 2007 at 2:40 pm |
[...] Washington, DC based startup Mesa Dynamics has been working on some cool widget compatibility related work that I had written about earlier. To add to it’s product set, Mesa Dynamics has introduced support for Google Talk gadget to run inside of Dashboard. This would definitely get Google quite a few Mac fans since Google Talk client was not supported on the Mac. Users will have to use Amnesty™ Generator from Mesa Dynamics to get the talks rolling on Google Talk. [...]