how about a dining out widget. your out and u need to make reservation no need to waite in line to talk to the hostess. simply make your reservation via the widget. input how many are with your party and order your drinks. what time you will be there. the screen vibrates and flashes a certain color to inform you your table is ready.
Is there some sort of backend we can use for this? If there isn't, this idea won't be possible.
Doesn't the camera application start when you open the lens cover (the above was my initial flashlight thought as well but couldn't think of how it would coexist naturally with the camera app)?
Yes, it does. No, I don't think there's a way around it yet.
Im not sure if its just me but i would like a slideshow widget for selected pictures (Maybe simular in design to the one used by HTC (Stacked pictures sorta look)) pressing it could launch the photos app and maybe swiping up/down for next/last image.
Im not sure if its just me but i would like a slideshow widget for selected pictures (Maybe simular in design to the one used by HTC (Stacked pictures sorta look)) pressing it could launch the photos app and maybe swiping up/down for next/last image.
I have been thinking of this as well. With the always-connected mentality, I would like it to pull images from the web as well. Accounts on flickr or new images posted by friends on facebook for instance.
Edit: How about an accompanying application so you could pull up a fullscreen slideshow (think photoframe)? Screensaver for those not worrying about battery perhaps?
I would like it to pull images from the web as well. Accounts on flickr or new images posted by friends on facebook for instance.
Yeah i like that. Hope it wouldent be too hard to implament or too hard for the end user to set up; i.e having to enter multiple account details and refresh rates just for a desktop widget.
I have been thinking of this as well. With the always-connected mentality, I would like it to pull images from the web as well. Accounts on flickr or new images posted by friends on facebook for instance.
That's going to be a very high bandwidth use. I hope that if anyone implements this feature, there's a major warning about it.
You can put web page bookmarks on your desktop, too. So it is fairly straightforward to put bookmarks to your favorite search engines / reference pages on the desktop, and then just press the bookmark to get the search page. So you need to make something about your widget that is more compelling or convenient than that.
I understand, but I've got a few things going for me:
1) Speed. It takes twice as long to load two web-pages as it does one. For example, let's say I want to search Ebay and have a shortcut on my desktop for ebay.com. I could click the shortcut and wait for ebay to load, then enter my query in the field and hit search. With the widget, I could select to search ebay and search it without having to load anything extra. This could also be useful if you are paying for data usage.
2) Convenience. It is all there. You don't have to create a bunch of shortcuts, just download the software and the functionality is there.
3) Space. Say there are fifteen sites I search on a regular basis. Well, 15 shortcuts take up a lot of desktop space, while my applet is always the same relatively small size (say, twice a shortcut) if it's fifteen sites I like to search or 50.
4) Finger-friendliness. How many websites have finger friendly search bars? Not so many. My applet is "designed with fingers in mind".
