Widgets
DigiWeather
DigiWeather works on Yahoo! Widget Engine and displays current weather information and weather forecast for any major city from Romania. In the lower side displays weather alerts or useful information. The widget can be resized to display only the forecasts or only the current weather.
Features
- Displays current weather information and forecasts
- Available for all major cities in Romania
- Resizable
- Values from National Meteorological Administration
- Frequent update
- More than 45000 users subscribed
Challenges
- Building an intuitive interface
- Communication protocol
- Data repository
DigiStation
DigiStation is my latest widget, and simulates a weather station that displays the current atmospheric pressure, current temperature and humidity. The main challenge here was to build it for multiple widget engines: Windows Sidebar Gadgets, MacOS Widgets, Yahoo! Widget Engine and even Flash (for web pages).
Features
- Works on multiple widget engines: Windows Sidebar Gadgets, MacOS Widgets, Yahoo! Widget Engine and even Flash (for web pages)
- Displays atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity and current weather as icon
- Frequent update
- The latest version works for international locations
- Temperature unit switching (C or F)
- Last pressure value with resettable indicator
Challenges
- Builduing an attractive interface
- Integration of international data
