EGHEADS! Get your Swag!

by Craig Cmehil on March 9, 2009 at 4:30 am

After Eddie posted about the new and I must say awesome eGeek logo I was thinking it would be great if we started to expand our offering of some cool little tools for others to use as well.

So while sitting in my hospital bed and bored out of my mind the other week I decided it was high time I busted out the Apple Developer Kit and gave things a whirl, more on that to come in a future post!

Updated missing text!

I created two things, unfortunately they are only available for Mac users, I still need to redo my VMWare setup and get a Windows machine back on here. This of course was a bit upsetting because we wanted to of course launch everything together.

Turns out to I had nothing to worry about since awesome Abesh busted out the Windows versions in no time at all so we are now able to bring you both Windows and Mac support right off! Linux folks no worries we didn’t forget and are working on it

Check out the Swag we’ve got now for all your geekiness! More to come so keep your eye on it!

For the Mac stuff take a look…

The first is a Dashboard widget so you can catch the Enterprise Geeks Podcast as soon as they come in!

Each episode also has the description with it, which you can also view through the widget.

For the Windows stuff…

Happens to be the one used in the menu as well

You might also have noticed that I have one of the cool new eGeek wallpapers up as well!

The Mac Screen Saver mentioned above is difficult to grab but I have a new Screen Saver for Enterprise Geeks. It’s a simple one that pulsates through a variety of different colors. It seemed fitting (a simple one like that) since our own logo we have in like 4 different color variations depending on the various uses we have planned for it.

More stuff is certainly on the way and Eddie said it perfectly on the Swag page,

As you can see, our swag is created and contributed by your fellow eGheads. If you would like to chip in, send all your geeky goodness to us here.

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2007 was the year of the Widget, 2008?

by Craig Cmehil on August 21, 2008 at 8:19 am

Om Malik once stated (back in 2006/2007) that 2007 would be the year of the widget,

“Of course with Leopard and Vista almost around the corner, it is hard not to get enthusiastic about the future of widgets. Gabe Dorfman, a Microsoft product manager is predicting a widget boom. Yahoo, MySpace, AOL, and scores of others are part of this ‘atomization of web’ movement. ‘The Google personal homepage is the fastest-growing Google product,’ Marissa Mayer tells Newsweek, ‘This market is going to be very large.’”

Now midway through 2008 I’ve been sitting back and reflecting was 2007 really the year? Did things like the iPhone, AIR and Silverlight alter that path? At the end of 2007 SAP and SDN hosted a “Widget Contest” and we were blown away by the shear number of participants and activity around Widgets in the Enterprise. Last year during the SAP TechEd event Widgets even took center stage winning at the Demo Jam!

So was 2007 it or does 2008 and 2009 look interesting for widget technologies? I think so!

Now I won’t just leave it at that, let me at least say why I think it looks interesting. The simple fact that we are gaining ground in small, usable and portable devices in an “always on” mode the idea of small consumable apps (widgets) becomes more and more appealing – perhaps it’s not just a Yahoo, Vista, Google or Dashboard thing but still the idea of a small consumable app giving you what you need, how you need it and when you need it, well frankly the appeal is growing and growing.

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