I'm looking for a good news widget mostly i read engadget but their widget is only 4x1 and I'd like a tablet optimized one.
Thanks
Pure News Widget seems to be a good one. Been using it on phone and tab.
Multiple sized widgets, plus resizable if using proper launcher. Scrollable. And many themes. It does tend to use a lot of data but on a tablet, not really an issue.
News360; best news widget available IMHO
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News360; best news widget available IMHO
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+1 to this...just played around with it and it is pretty nice.
Pulse is by far the best, the App shows you multiple sources at once and the widget lets you place any sources on you main screens.
News Flash is pretty sweet! The Widgets are tickers and looks awesome on my Prime
as far as widgets go I like minimal reader for my rss feeds.
However I stopped using it for google currents... no widgets yet but I prefer it over anything else.
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Is there any 4x4 RSS widgets out there? Perhaps with a transparent bakground?
bump, I've been looking for this for a long time
I'm reBumping this one.. anyone?
I can assure you all that as of yet there is nothing that exists except for the stock htc Sense NewsReader widget. I spent an inordinate amount of time looking and have tried every newsreader available.
To the best of my knowledge Buzzbox is the ONLY other RSS app with a 4x4 widget but it is still far away from being recommendable. But, certainly worth trying as maybe your experience will be better than mine. It is not scrollable but does have multiple pages and has a good mechanism to select sources. HOWEVER, the articles are way behind (18+hours) and they are not all available. After I sent feedback to the developer he responded by telling me that although 18 hours was too long, the articles are normally delayed because they are being filtered by Buzzbox to only send you the "best stuff." W-T-F? Isn't that the job of the editors at the sources? And, if a source doesn't provide me with the content I want won't I just remove the source and pick another? Mind boggling. Needless to say, despite its potential, I think the app is crap.
The guy behind LauncherPro has been doing a good job of recreating many of the htc Sense widgets and a scrollable RSS widget should be forthcoming. Unfortunately, there is no ETA yet.
That said, when I am running a non-Sense ROM my personal preference is for NewsRoom. Once I gave up on a functional 4x4 news widget I found that Newsroom is the slickest out there. I do still keep Greed2 and FeedR on my phone hoping to grow into them but it has not happened.
BuzzBox is probably your best bet, as it works well and updates pretty nicely, my biggest gripe so far is that the Widget theme is an eyesore, once they apply better themes to the widget, and tweak the power consumption, I'd have to say BuzzBox FTMFW!
Have you tried this thread out? Works for me and has transparent background. It's getting better with each update too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=848454
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I can assure you all that as of yet there is nothing that exists except for the stock htc Sense NewsReader widget. I spent an inordinate amount of time looking and have tried every newsreader available.
To the best of my knowledge Buzzbox is the ONLY other RSS app with a 4x4 widget but it is still far away from being recommendable. But, certainly worth trying as maybe your experience will be better than mine. It is not scrollable but does have multiple pages and has a good mechanism to select sources. HOWEVER, the articles are way behind (18+hours) and they are not all available. After I sent feedback to the developer he responded by telling me that although 18 hours was too long, the articles are normally delayed because they are being filtered by Buzzbox to only send you the "best stuff." W-T-F? Isn't that the job of the editors at the sources? And, if a source doesn't provide me with the content I want won't I just remove the source and pick another? Mind boggling. Needless to say, despite its potential, I think the app is crap.
The guy behind LauncherPro has been doing a good job of recreating many of the htc Sense widgets and a scrollable RSS widget should be forthcoming. Unfortunately, there is no ETA yet.
That said, when I am running a non-Sense ROM my personal preference is for NewsRoom. Once I gave up on a functional 4x4 news widget I found that Newsroom is the slickest out there. I do still keep Greed2 and FeedR on my phone hoping to grow into them but it has not happened.
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AtomaRSS, its in the market and took me less than 5 minutes to find! I think its better than the one that is linked in the post above me since that one still needs a lot of work.
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AtomaRSS
+1 AtomaRSS
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+1 AtomaRSS
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Why resurrect an old thread just to agree with the last person who posted.
I see your new, if your trying to get your post count up post something useful please.
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I love the stock MotoBlur RSS reader on my Droid X. Only problem has been it doesn't recognize Craigslist RSS feeds. I might try AtomRSS myself!
I love the stock MotoBlur RSS reader on my Droid X. Only problem has been it doesn't recognize Craigslist RSS feeds. I might try AtomRSS myself!
Edit: Just tried AtomRSS on my rooted Droid X (stock ROM).
No matter how I enable the check in the preferences, I still get an error about scrollable widgets (even if disabled in the preferences!)
I cant seem to find one that will work with the launcher that comes with the Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch. Seems all require a custom launcher. =(
Heck, i dont even need it to be scrollable, just looking for a 4x4 rss widget for a single feed and that i can setup its update interval.
Minimal Reader should do the trick for you guys.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.jv.cleanwidgets&hl=en
What kind of widgets are you guys using?
All i use my tablet for now is basic web surfing and emails so i use the bookmark and email widgets but its kind of boring.
Recently added the Google music bar widget but anybody got anything really cool or interesting?
massive list of 3.1 apps
http://api.viglink.com/api/click?fo...ww.xoomforums.com/forum/moto...apps-list.html
great link. Thank jman391 for posting this.
i like having the Pulse widgets on my screen.. i have 4 of them there, so i could quickly check on news and articles. great app with plenty of topics. i also linked my facebook calendar so it shows my friends' birthdays and events i have coming up. and i also put the books widget there, as i find it pretty nice to have access to a bunch of free ones. last is the weatherbug widget, which is just plain right now.. not as nice as their phone widget so far.
I'm going simplistic, just beautiful widgets weather at the moment. I like plain
The CNN news widget is cool, and takes advantage of the native HC widget scroll feature.
The widgets for Springpad are pretty cool and seem useful. Too bad I'm finding that I like Evernote more.
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The widgets for Springpad are pretty cool and seeism useful. Too bad I'm finding that I like Evernote more.
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Is there a plain post it widget anywhere? I tried springpad but didn't want to have to register just for note taking.
Try color note for plain post it note widget and post it todo lists.
I like Astrid Tasks for those quick post-it like notes.
News360 is a very slick app, and it has a nice widget.
Plume also has a very nice widget if you're a twitter user.
Widgets
pure calendar
Music
News 360
Fancy widgets forecast
Pandora
Gmail
Spring pad
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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Those are pretty nice. Thanks for posting about that...
Is the time of updates posting correctly on your FB and Twitter widgets though??? It either shows some weird time or some ridiculous hours ago even if it's a new status/tweet. Weird.
Also... it may just be me, but is there a tad bit of lag once they are on your homescreens?
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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love that reader widget, thanks !
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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Next to news360, this is now my new favorite app. Thanks for the suggestion
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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These widgets look nice, thanks for posting this!
Installing now...
awesome
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1111378
link to the widget. Its awesome
should be getting tablet tomorrow ... that looks to be the first thing i will install ... wizz .. thanks guys .. keep them coming
http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/motorola-xoom-apps/570-optimized-honeycomb-apps-list.html
Try that page its great! Everything you need to make all your tablet dreams come true!
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Thanks for all the good links.
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Best widgets by far are the Wizz widgets. They match Honeycomb perfectly. It includes an agenda, calendar, facebook, google reader, and twitter widgets.
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Those are great widgets! Thanks!
Would be awesome if there was something like the "stacks" but that displayed your pictures. Anyone know of something like this?
I have a love hate thing going on with Blur, even the remnants we see in Gingerbread, and have found that the only reason for my continuing to use it is down to the Social Networking widget.
This makes me sound like some kinda facebook and Twitter junkie which I am not really but I do find it handy not to have any notifications and to check out those social sites as and when I want to. The fact I can get the information on one application is handy as well rather than have to log into both apps individually.
So my question....is there a all in one, well facebook and Twitter anyway, widget that does a similar job to the Social Networking widget in Blur ?
Have looked through the Market and nothing leaps out at me.
I used to use Colorized Widget
the only gripe with that is 1) it doesn't work with Launcher Pro
2) I believe to get twitter and fb on one widget you have to get the paid app?
Another is Pure Messenger Widget it's a paid app again.. but it does both
Last, is Launcher Pro Plus. it's launcher alternative.. which has those functions built in. again it's a paid app
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I used to use Colorized Widget
the only gripe with that is 1) it doesn't work with Launcher Pro
2) I believe to get twitter and fb on one widget you have to get the paid app?
Another is Pure Messenger Widget it's a paid app again.. but it does both
Last, is Launcher Pro Plus. it's launcher alternative.. which has those functions built in. again it's a paid app
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yeah LP already comes with widgets. i dont use launcher pro, i would if it were as smooth and had as much options as ADW EX. colerized widgets is nice though, there are another set called ADP widgets i think
Pure Messenger is awesome but its not battery friendly.
Android Pro Widgets and if you use GO Launcher there is an add on for it.
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Many thanks for the suggestions.
Seems as though Blur did come up with one good idea for me at least !
I have tried CM7 and other de-blurred ROM's but that little widget is so handy.
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Many thanks for the suggestions.
Seems as though Blur did come up with one good idea for me at least !
I have tried CM7 and other de-blurred ROM's but that little widget is so handy.
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It's alright.. the theme of it isn't that appealing to me imo but its functions were great.
Howdy folks,
What is everyone's weather widget app of choice? At the moment I'm running Beautiful Widgets on ADW Launcher, but I'm interested in playing around with some different ones to get the feel I want. What do you guys use?
I'm using the weather channel app. It works well and has a good user interface.
I love Beautiful Widgets as well. One that a lot of people seem to like is Fancy Widgets.
I'm using Palmary weather Pro. There's also Palmary weather free.
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I'm using the weather channel app. It works well and has a good user interface.
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I'm guessing the app doesn't FC as much as it did a version or two ago? I had abandoned it a while ago because it got slower and more unreliable with each release for a spell.
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Ugh. Got the latest version of the Weather Channel app for my Vibrant and I get the same odd behaviors - unexpected closes, slow interface, etc. Downloaded Palmary Free and I'm much more pleased. Lacks some of the nice features that Weather Channel had but, geez, I'll take stability over some minor functions any day.
Since I only recently jumped on TSF Launcher, I've found that I've already gotten used to the great looking 5x5 calendar widget that came with Touchwiz. Much to my chagrin, it's only available when using Touchwiz.
Most of the calendar widgets in the market are either list type widgets, or not sized correctly to be displayed on this giant screen.
Has anyone come across a calendar widget that they like for the Note?
Jorte Calendar has a 5x5 monthly calendar widget. It's popular although i think it's a bit on the ugly side in terms of looks...but with time I think a lot of customization is possible.
You're right about the ugliness - not even close to Samsung's widget.
Deslandes has one called PURE Grid. I use PURE Messenger a lot and the functionality is always fantastic and it looks great. The biggest issue is if you're using Exchange. It'll work fine with Google, but it can't read your Exchange calendar on a Samsung device yet.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.koxx.pure_grid_calendar&hl=en
I personally love Jorte and don't find it ugly at all with some tweaks. A big requirement for me is that the widget has to be very functional. By making the widget completely transparent and using Google calendar colors, looks sweet to me!
Also, using the month+task view, I get all the information I need at once. The widget also adjusts to landscape view effectively.
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. The biggest issue is if you're using Exchange. It'll work fine with Google, but it can't read your Exchange calendar on a Samsung device yet.
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It says it works with Touchdown, so shouldn't that be fine for Exchange?
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HD Widgets
Puregrid works great I have mine set at 5 by 5xxl-tablet. I mainly use just the week view but here's both. Puregrid is very customizable and a decent selection of skins, I'm rocking the ICS skin.
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try wizz, its free.