Ubuntu / Linux news and application reviews.

Gis Weather: Highly Customizable Weather Widget For Your Linux Desktop

Gis Weather is a highly customizable weather widget which supports Gismeteo and AccuWeather, available for Linux and Windows. The app ships with optional Ubuntu AppIndicator / tray icon which displays the current weather.

Gis Weather

Get Weather Or System Info On Your Desktop With These 2 Conky Configurations

There are two Conky configurations I've been wanting to write about for a while, but I didn't have the time to do it, until today, so here it is: the first one has been created by Satya, it's called Conky Google Now and is very easy to set up while the second one, created by Pressian, is more advanced and requires some experience with Conky to set it up.

Conky is a lightweight, highly configurable system monitor tool which can display the information on your desktop, in different shapes and forms.

Get A HTC-Like Weather / Clock Widget In Ubuntu With My Weather Indicator, Now With Widgets Support

My Weather Indicator

My Weather Indicator has got widgets support a few days ago, but I didn't write about it back then because it was the initial widgets release and there was still work to be done. 

Today, the application has been updated, adding 3 weather widget styles along with options to display the widget on top (or under), or to hide the indicator when the widget is displayed:


- My Weather Indicator "full" widget is a HTC-like weather / clock widget:

My Weather Indicator widget full

Conky Colors Makes Your Conky Beautiful In Seconds (Version 3.20 Released)

Conky colors

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. You've seen it in many screenshots under various forms; take a look at these screenshots if you don't know what Conky is.

A while back we told you about a really easy way to configure Conky using a GUI called ConkyWizard - which is very nice, but it doesn't come with plugins and too many options. Conky Colors on the other hand doesn't come with a GUI but is just as easy to set up (from the command line) and it comes with A LOT of options and scripts (from Gmail to Rhythmbox, weather and more) so you can create an amazing looking Conky in a matter of seconds (don't let our long guide fool you - you just have to install a few packages and run Conky Colors). You can view a list of options supported by Conky Colors, here.

A new Conky Colors version was released today which doesn't brings many new features - but I found this a good opportunity to talk about it since I absolutely love this script.

Use Netvibes To Add A Highly Customizable Recent Posts Widget To Your Blog

Netvibes offers a widget which can consist on a RSS feed or multiple feeds, you can add to your blog. You can chose between many styles, if the widget should have images or not, etc. Take a look at the images below:
recent posts netvibes widgetnetvibes widget

New Ajax Google Translate Widget

Google just announced a new Google Translate widget for blogs which is ajax-based and much prettier than the previous one.

Here is a video with the new Google Translate widget in action:


(I only added the script to make the video, then removed it)

Highly Customizable Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger

Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger

Related Posts with Thumbnails for Blogger is a widget very similar to LinkWithin script but very customizable:

  • maximum number of related posts - you can choose how many related posts to be displayed
  • title of the widget - you can change the "Related posts" title to whatever you like
  • JavaScript hosted on Google Code website so it loads very fast
  • change colors and everything else by using CSS

For more info and instructions on how to add this widget to your Blogger template, see the article on BloggerPlugins.

Create a HTML Twitter Widget For Your Blog Using JavaScript and CSS

twitter html widget
(this is just a screenshot, see a live demo link at the end of the post)

1. The CSS (if you use Blogger, you need to place this before the ]]></b:skin> tag in your template / for other platforms, place this code inside your main .css file):

#twitter_div_ws {font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding: 5px; width:300px; background-color:#FFF; margin: 0 auto;}
ul#twitter_update_list_ws {padding:0; margin:0; list-style: none; display:block;}
ul#twitter_update_list_ws li {list-style: none; min-height:50px; border-top: 1px solid #CCCCCC; padding:5px 0px;}
ul#twitter_update_list_ws li span {font-style: italic; display: block;}
ul#twitter_update_list_ws .timeago {display:inline-block;}
ul#twitter_update_list_ws .timeago a {font-size:10px; color: #999999; text-decoration: none;}
#twitter_div_ws b a {font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; text-transform:uppercase}
#twitter_info_ws {border-bottom: 5px solid #CCCCCC; padding-bottom:10px;font-size: 10px;}
#twitter_info_ws b {font-size: 15px; line-height:30px;}
#twitter_info_ws img {padding: 0 5px 0 0; width: 50px; border:0px;}