<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="2.0"><channel><title>WinCustomize Forums » RSS Feed » Widget talk Posts</title><link>https://feeds.feedburner.com/Stardock/Wincustomize/forum/288</link><copyright>© 2006 - 2026 Stardock Corporation. All rights reserved.</copyright><description>Recent Posts In Widget talk</description><language>en-us</language><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:14:16 AM -0400</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:14:16 AM -0400</lastBuildDate><docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs><generator>Stardock Rss Generator v1.0</generator><managingEditor>info@stardock.com</managingEditor><webMaster>kwilas@stardock.com</webMaster><item><author>RedneckDude</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/452555</comments><description><![CDATA[Well, I have bad news. As of today, all my weather widgets and gadgets have stopped working. Worked fine yesterday. Today, nothing. They just sit there, won&#39;t refresh, can&#39;t change location, no forecast.  Philly0381 alerted me to the situation this morning. If anyone knows anything, or has working weather, please say so here.  &nbsp;  I&#39;m guessing we&#39;ve lost the Weather Underground feed.&nbsp; Bummer.  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/452555</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/452555</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 8:12:49 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2014-03-20T08:12:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Will The Weather Be Unbroken?</title></item><item><author>Purrdy</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/351841</comments><description><![CDATA[My Desktop Widgets will from time to time jump to top left of screen, even if I have them 'locked'!  &nbsp;  Any explanation for this?  &nbsp;     Purrdy......  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/351841</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/351841</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 2:23:29 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2009-06-19T14:23:29-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Widget Won't Stay Put!</title></item><item><author>Gareth</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/322969</comments><description><![CDATA[    Hello,I think Bilbo is one of the most talented widget disigners around. His Aeroanimweather_v2 is one of his best. However, it does need a slight modification. When the wind speed is displayed at, let's say, WNW 10 mph. the frame is not wide enough to contain the full length of the text. Therefore what happens is that the text drops to the second line and makes it look rather stange. If this could be corrected it would be perfect.I don't know if he will ever read this but I just thought I'd...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/322969</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/322969</link><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 8:25:28 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-09-03T20:25:28-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Aeroanimweather_v3</title></item><item><author>jinxjx</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/144144</comments><description><![CDATA[hi all, how do you get a weather docklet to work and read the weather from your dock ?...thank you..]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/144144</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/144144</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 8:56:46 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-06-02T08:56:46-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>weather widget</title></item><item><author>Starrow</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/305514</comments><description><![CDATA[Any idea what calendar widget (or calendar program and skin) Arnaez uses on his "my desktop" screenshot?  Just looks so cool and i want it!   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/305514</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/305514</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 1:04:59 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2008-03-25T13:04:59-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>What widget is he using?</title></item><item><author>The__Goo</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162430</comments><description><![CDATA[I have noticed that we have battery meters in both widgets and OD Docklets, what i haven't seen, unless i am mistaken, mattery meter for cordless mice.  I have a G7 logitech mouse and the logitech program allows the information to be sent to the system tray icon.  Is it possible to make it so that information can be gathered by a widget or OD docklet???  Please if anyone can do something that would br cool and could be popular due to the fact that cordless mice are widely used now]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/162430</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162430</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 8:19:49 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-09-11T20:19:49-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Widget request</title></item><item><author>saddino</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162340</comments><description><![CDATA[Amnesty Hypercube is a new, free desktop widget platform for web widgets, flash games and video, including Google Gadgets, You Tube, Widgetbox and Yourminis.With Amnesty Hypercube, you collect, manage, share and publish "web widgets" – snippets of code meant for your blog, home page or MySpace profiles.  These can be placed directly on your desktop, or in offscreen "cubes" similar to Yahoo Widget Engine's heads up display.If you're a Vista user, any widget in Amnesty Hypercube can be pushed into...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/162340</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/162340</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 5:45:29 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-09-10T17:45:29-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Amnesty Hypercube Released</title></item><item><author>ViperWorm</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/143742</comments><description><![CDATA[I need someone with a quite vast knowledge of DX-scripting.  It's not like I can't do any scripting at all, but I would need someone to help me with more complex scripts...  SO, everyone who helps me will be added in About sections of widgets, with links to their desired pages and similar    Basically, I will be eternally thankful to anyone willing to help me     If anyone is interested, please e-mail me to viperworm_virm@yahoo.com ...  Hopefully someone will  ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/143742</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/143742</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 6:43:26 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-08-02T06:43:26-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Scripting partner</title></item><item><author>sugarspun58</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146232</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi there,  I'm using frogboy's fish objects on my desktop and they look great....  I have them 'contained' in another object and on my second monitor.  The problem is that I have several fish swimming on the screen, but they all do the same thing... ie swim at the same speed and in the same direction, either up, down or level. This is annoying because once they get to the top or bottom they all end up in the same line.  How would I go about editing the scripts? I was hoping to write a sc...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146232</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146232</link><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:55:24 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-06-28T12:55:24</pubDateParsed><title>Fishy</title></item><item><author>Troy Ruiz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/154996</comments><description><![CDATA[Hello DX Community. New member here. I am developing an Electronic Flight Bag for our pilots. I am planning to use DesktopX for the UI. Is there a script that can sync files from an FTP site? Sound strange? All pilots need information as current as possible. Our plan is to issue them a tablet PC with DesktopX, but they will need a button or Widget that will sync to an FTP server and give them the latest updated manuals/aviation weather/etc. I am new to scripting and this is a unique project. Can...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/154996</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/154996</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 8:21:55 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-06-12T20:21:55-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Sync to FTP</title></item><item><author>sophiesboy</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/148138</comments><description><![CDATA[I was running through my library of widgets (I assume they are widgets. The files all end in ".exe". Maybe they're gadgets?)  In any case, when I clicked on a file to activate it, nothing shows up on my screen. If I go to task manager, it says that the program is running, it just doesn't show on the screen.  If it's relevant, I recently changed monitors, and went from a 1280x1024 resolution to 1680x1050. Is it possible that has pushed the widget off the screen somehow?  The basic question ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/148138</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/148138</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 9:55:00 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-25T09:55:00-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>How can I get the widget back on the screen?</title></item><item><author>RomanDA</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147174</comments><description><![CDATA[I know we have had discussions on new Gallery's but I really think we need these 2.   1.  DX Gadgets  - this would be for gadgets only, so people without DX could load these and know they would work, and people with DX would know that everything in the WIDGET Gallery is a widget that can be imported.   2.  DX Weather/Clock  - yes yes yes, anyone that has ever been in the DX Widgets gallery know that there and have done a "search" for "weather" will return you 7 pages of 32 widgets, or MORE. ...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/147174</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147174</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 8:33:47 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-23T08:33:47-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>New DX Categories needed B A D</title></item><item><author>sViz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146905</comments><description><![CDATA[A quick question for you guys. What kind of weather is this?      Hail? Mini-snowballs?!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146905</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146905</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 6:39:15 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-19T06:39:15-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>What kind of weather is this?</title></item><item><author>jdsabin1</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146890</comments><description><![CDATA[A member posted their screenshot and I really like the look of the widget at the lower left that displays album art (appears as a CD).   Anyone know what this is?   TIA!   https://www.wincustomize.com/zoom.aspx?skinid=19334&libid=13   ]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146890</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146890</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 7:09:42 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-14T19:09:42-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Anyone know what this widget is?</title></item><item><author>Vad_M</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147140</comments><description><![CDATA[Hi Friends,   First of all I must say: Big Thanks for  I.R. Brainiac ! He found a problem in Skin Checker that disturbed for full-fledged functioning of this tool. So I need a little help from you to make last adjustments in it.    Problem : the widget doesn't retrieve data about all uploaded skins if these skins are on a several pages. It work with first page only because I don't know how Wincustomize switched to another pages with skins.   Decision : I need see any HTML file of skins gal...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/147140</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147140</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 4:37:57 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-14T16:37:57-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Need your help to adjust SD Skin Checker</title></item><item><author>jphlips</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/142661</comments><description><![CDATA[Howdy good skinners! I am trying to get a widget that will display album artwork that is embedded in the tags on my MP3 files.  All the widgets I have found for this only read picture files in the folder that the track resides in...  I want just a transparent frame that will pop the currently playing song's artwork into it.  Track/Album/Artist info would be nice as well..... Unfortunetely for this poor fool I dont have a clue what to do to get the results I want.    Please help!!!]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/142661</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/142661</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 7:07:14 AM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-12T07:07:14-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Album Art Widget</title></item><item><author>TheD2JBug</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147000</comments><description><![CDATA[Anyone ever throught of making a OSX Aqua/brushed styled widget?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/147000</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/147000</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2007 8:52:57 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-12T20:52:57-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>OSX styled weather</title></item><item><author>fishpen0</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146525</comments><description><![CDATA[i am looking for a very realistic and possible 3D appearing easy button.  Obviously when clicked it will say "that was easy" just the same as the store bought one.  and it will look as if it were pressed in. there should also be a customizable right click sound also. It should have at least 2 size options and also have the option to link it to a folder/file.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146525</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146525</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 5:44:27 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-11T17:44:27-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>Easy button</title></item><item><author>jinxjx</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146837</comments><description><![CDATA[hi all, i know this is a gadget and not a DX widget. at the top it says " today saturday saturday march 10".&nbsp; is it suppose to say saturday twice? i deleted the cache and everything. but the new install says the 'today" twice. the same thing. anybody know about this?....thank you]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146837</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146837</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 2:58:36 PM -0400</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-11T14:58:36-04:00</pubDateParsed><title>SD Weatherlab ?</title></item><item><author>sViz</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146275</comments><description><![CDATA[I'd like to modify the Silica Weather object with my own graphics and some other design changes. I understand that I'm supposed to include the permission text only if I use the provided graphics. I was wondering would it be alright if I uploaded a modified version, who would I credit for the script (Stardock?), and do I still have to include the permission text if I'm using my own graphics?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146275</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146275</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2007 2:41:44 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-10T02:41:44-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Modifying Silica Weather: Can I upload?</title></item><item><author>MerlinBerlin</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146691</comments><description><![CDATA[ I downloaded Richard Mohlers "clear weather" widget. Now I want it to maximize at Windows startup. I always have to click on that "more"-button on the widget to maximize.  Does anyone knows the solution, maybe just the right widget-config?  Please help!  Merlin]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146691</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146691</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 4:15:30 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-09T16:15:30-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Maximizing Weather Widget at Start???</title></item><item><author>gaby75</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146591</comments><description><![CDATA[hello. I try to make a browser for my childrens  (as here)  , but I need a button "print" .    I search on this forum but I dont find.    a small help would be nice.    thank you.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146591</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146591</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 3:54:38 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-08T15:54:38-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>bouton pour imprimer</title></item><item><author>Melegaunt</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146074</comments><description><![CDATA[This is referring to _Martin_'s Stock monitor.  I have a problem with this where the top column of the list has "COLUMNAR" superimposed over what would be NASDAQ, the number is correct next to it, and the char shows up fine, but that irritates the heck out of me seeing words overlapping like that.  Any way to fix it?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/146074</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/146074</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 7:12:00 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-05T07:12:00-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Problem with DesktopX Stock Ticker</title></item><item><author>Silverdusk</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145060</comments><description><![CDATA[Hiyah folks, I've been playing around for the last week with all the new programs offered here.  So to my question.  I'm using windows Vista and have Object Dock Plus and DesktopX.  Recently, I've gotten a couple of widgets that won't allow me to add text to them.  The ToDo widgets by Tiggz for one, won't let me type in the small popup window where you edit your text.  Any ideas?   My other is the ClearView Media player by Richard Mohler , I can't get it to open any of my music or even allow m...]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/145060</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145060</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 9:37:54 AM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-05T09:37:54-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Help with todo list please</title></item><item><author>Bladelee</author><comments>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145862</comments><description><![CDATA[Is there a Widget for Severe Weather Alerts ?]]></description><guid isPermaLink="True">https://forums.wincustomize.com/145862</guid><link>https://forums.wincustomize.com/145862</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 6:27:53 PM -0500</pubDate><pubDateParsed>2007-03-03T18:27:53-05:00</pubDateParsed><title>Severe Weather Alert  widget</title></item></channel></rss>