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Presenting: The Global Geek Podcast Widget for Your Desktop

This is huge news. Tim King of +grooveARMY has created something for us here at the Global Geek. This time it is not only something for us but for you. He has created The Global Geek Podcast Widget!

Our widget utilizes our RSS feed to bring our content right to your desktop. Just click a story to go to our blog and read it. If you don’t understand RSS technology, that’s okay because with the widget you don’t have to. Tim has built it all in so that you don’t have to worry about it. Nice work.

To run the Widget on your desktop you need to download the Yahoo! Widget Engine. There is a version for Windows and Mac. Knightwise you have to love that eh? All the information on widgets and the Yahoo! Widget Engine can be found on the download page. There are a huge range of widgets to have a look at in the gallery. But make sure that you check out the Geek Widget!

I would personally like to thank and congratulate Tim King for his effort and time in the creation of this widget which has been donated to The Global Geek Podcast. Thanks mate and we are going to have you on the show soon!

Please leave Tim any feedback here as a comment as to what you think, I am sure he will keep an eye out.

Get The Global Geek Podcast Widget Here

3 Responses to “Presenting: The Global Geek Podcast Widget for Your Desktop”

  1. Cameron Reilly Says:

    That is seriously cool! Well done Tim!

    cheers
    Cameron Reilly
    CEO, The Podcast Network

  2. Tim King Says:

    Hey thanks Cameron!

    I’m glad you like it!

  3. provokeit Says:

    Dave / KW

    This is a really cool thing although over the past 18 months I found that there are 2 things that will grind your machine to a halt and make startup times so slooooooooow.

    1. Nortons AV
    2. Yahoo Widgets.

    1. Norton just sux processor and memory. It just does

    2 Yahoo Widgets and the Konfabulator engine that it was built (nee purchased) from is slow and the widgets often contain more spaghetti in the coding than Mama Luigi’s best linguini.

    And that 18 month test came from my desktop machine running 2.8Ghz P4 chips with 2.0GB RAM.

    I love widgets until I sat down and analysed what internal bandwidth they sucked. Now that I have removed them my startup time has gone back to acceptable (

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