My top Opera Widget
Published December 6th, 2007 2:30 PM EST By Daniel Goldman
Since we first added support for Opera Widgets in Opera 9, hundreds of useful widgets were created by developers around the world.
There are a few that I use all the time, but I wanted to take a moment and highlight my top and most useful Opera Widget (drum roll…): The touchTheSky weather widget.
This weather widget is always open on my desktop. I find myself usually glancing at the temperature reading before heading outside. Hey, this Opera Widget even saved me some money. Without it, I’d have to go out to the store, buy a thermometer, and place it outside my window.
Apparently I’m not alone. It’s the highest rated and the most downloaded widget over at widgets.opera.com
What’s your top Opera Widget?
I’m curious to know which one is your top widget. Is it the Facebook widget? Twitter widget? SimAquarium? touchTheSky weather widget? Or is it the Circular tetris widget?
Widget developer competition
Btw, we’re running a weekly competition for the top new widgets created. (Read more about it)
Related links:
- Opera Widgets now on mobile phones too
- 5 security widgets for the Opera browser
- My most useful Opera Widgets
- 9 Coolest Opera Widgets
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These widgets I have turned on all the time:
(always on top)
touchTheSky (always below)
Opera Clock (always on top)
Time and Date (always on top)
Habrahabr still not piblished
Google Hacks - still in development, but will be released soon (always on top)
Bash.org.ru Quotes - still in development
These widgets I use from time to time:
Different kind of rulers
Unit Corverter
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My top widget is My Opera
I like also and use from time to time:
Temporary Inbox
Google Translator
Google Map
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Dasch, the ‘Temporary inbox’ looks like a cool one. I haven’t seen that before.
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It’s a nice one, but I haven’t been able to use it since I moved to 9.5. Not sure how they broke widget support in the weeklies, but they did.
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I most often use:
Ruler (for making sure things line up on my web pages!)
Calculator (the ones included with operating systems are too hard to get to)
Unit converter
Passgen and Strong Password Generator
(sorry for the lack of links!)
I might put TouchtheSky on my mac - on Ubuntu it’s not necessary since there’s a panel widget for that.
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My favorites:
- dotoo
- calendar
- ruler
- password generator
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I dig touchtheSky a great deal, but as I’m running in 1024 I don’t have a lot of Windoes taskbar space to spare. Is there any way to have it sitting on my desktop without appearing on my taskbar?
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Just select from widget’s context menu Always on top or Always below.
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I use this for cooking:
Timer - http://widgets.opera.com/widget/7229/
It’s the most used widget I have downloaded.
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Daniel, look this news of Opera Mini for Brew users:
Opera Mini Web browser now available on Qualcomm’s BREW platform:
http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2007/12/06/
Cheers
;) 
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comic widget and garfield clock widget
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Password Manager!!
“Stores and manages passwords using Opera’s built-in Wand. Enables you to keep all your passwords in a single place.
For all those passwords that are not web-site related, such as application logins, cell phone PINs, front door access codes and more.”
http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6836/
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SimAquarium of course.
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You must be kidding. Would it kill you to just look out the window to tell how the weather is? It is, by far, the most useless widget available.
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Someone Frowning, looking out the window won’t tell me the temperature.
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Hello! I’m very sorry of offtopic, but no more suitable posts of that:
Opera becames monsterous and use too much resources of CPU and memory!
Please, let users to choose only features that are they need:
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Install Opera:
[+] Opera main engine
[?] Opera Mail
[?] Opera Chat
[?] Opera Notes
[?] Newsreader
[?] Widget engine
[?] Torrent engine
et cetera.
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I’m very-very sorry…