Some Bumptop Widgets are ready for download.
Hello all,
I have put a few of our Bumptop Widgets up at: http://widgets.indakind.com
Currently, you will find an Analog Clock, Animated Theme widget, and a Weather widget.
There is a help section on the site that contains a rough overview of how to install the widgets. Make sure you look at this.
Let me know if there any problems with the site. It is slow sometimes so you might need to refresh the page to continue loading.
Same goes for the downloading, you might need to pause the download and resume to get the whole thing for our big widgets.
If there is anyone interested in making their own widgets let me know.
Thanx
I have put a few of our Bumptop Widgets up at: http://widgets.indakind.com
Currently, you will find an Analog Clock, Animated Theme widget, and a Weather widget.
There is a help section on the site that contains a rough overview of how to install the widgets. Make sure you look at this.
Let me know if there any problems with the site. It is slow sometimes so you might need to refresh the page to continue loading.
Same goes for the downloading, you might need to pause the download and resume to get the whole thing for our big widgets.
If there is anyone interested in making their own widgets let me know.
Thanx
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Inappropriate?I have a few problems.
Bought and downloaded all three widgets. But the W2W and B2T zip-files seem corrupted. Downloaded again but same problem.
The B2AT downloaded ok, but I can't get Bumptop to register the theme. Also accorning to your help section, the only theme that's working with the B2AT widgetshould be one called "CES 09" - but where do I find it?
I’m unsure
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The downloads are currently working fine. Please check your e-mail for the recipt and download orders. You might have to keep an eye on the download and pause / resume it to finish it.
I am trying to work out these issues.. -
@John: My problem is not downloading the files. That part works just fine. My problem is that two of the three zip-files are corrupted. -
@lemburg, I will e-mail you the widgets and then re-upload them to the site.
Send me a message at Jon@indakind.com -
Inappropriate?I will never purchase anything from anyone unless I see an example of your work. Your website needs info which I will not give you.What your doing now stinks of fish. Fishy Fish.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I would strongly suggest not downloading these, as they probably don't work. Plus, his site seems kinda shady.
I’m angry
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Inappropriate?Well, it could seem like it. But it's only 1.99 so I guess I'll survive...
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I am putting up videos, themes, and more descriptions tonight. so be a little patient with me here.
And Chris should first do a little research before making rash accusations. http://bumptop.pbwiki.com/External-Wi... -
Inappropriate?Jon got rid of the false comments - waiting for the videos.
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I put some video's up for you all to check out. Some are on the front page and others are in the Blog section. -
Inappropriate?Sorry for being a jerk, but you do undertand how one might be frustrated by the fact that widgets for this program, that should definitely be not only free, but open source as well.
Instead, yours cost money, and require registration on a site no one has ever heard of.
You may be completely legitimate, I don't know, but as for right now, I think I'll wait a while, maybe develop my own free widgets before using yours.
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Please, Ask how to make widgets for bumptop, We will help in any way. We are always looking for good ideas.
We are planning on releasing sources for many of our widgets as well as allowing developers to sell or give away their widgets on our site. -
How about you start with making your widgets work. -
Inappropriate?whoa you have to pay for these? 0.o
no offence, but there are plenty of free apps that I can use thanks ^.^
But I take it all back if you release the code! I would love you forever! xD -
We only have one we are selling and it is only 1.99 USD . We are still working on releasing the source for many of our widgets. so be patient. This is all just starting up. -
Inappropriate?ah thats not that bad!
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Inappropriate?I managed to download the weather widget but the ZIP is corrupt. This site is looking nice and sketchy... (Joomla, yay!). Also how do you actually install one of the widgets?
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Inappropriate?The .zip is fine. We are having server issues now. The server keeps hanging and canceling downloads before they are finished. So Please try again tomorrow. We are working on the problem right now.
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Inappropriate?you have some widgets that are free of charge. Thats really good promo. But why dont you just have people download them without info. I mean i dont really want to give you my info unless I like your promo products.
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I will see what I can do to require less info for the downloads.
The way we have it now lets us send out update notices until we get our auto-updater in place.
So please be patient and Understanding. -
Inappropriate?also your Window 2 Weather widget is not working. I downloaded the zip and it is corrupt. winrar says its either corrupt or in incorrect format. I cant extract it.
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Please try and download that once more. We did get out server fixed for the download problem.
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Inappropriate?Sorry Jon, Still hangs at aabout 2MB.
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I am going back and forth with our host over this issue. I hope to get it resolved soon. I'm sorry for any inconveniences. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for putting these widgets out John. Can't wait to try them... and on that note, something is still messed up with your server. I filled out the registration form and clicked the button and it just went to a white page like it was loading, then timed out. I checked my email and I did get the 'new account activation,' so it sort-of worked. When I tried to activate my account using the link provided, it took me to a page that didn't exist and told me to check the URL. I went back to the website and logged in anyway, added the two widgets to my cart again and checked out. I got the email with the download links and, surprise, they don't work. "Error: Sorry, but the requested file wasn't found. Possible Cause: Wrong path"
Yeesh! I don't care how awesome they are. No widget is worth this much effort to download. :-s
I’m frustrated
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Please look at the comment below yours for more details. We were having issues to the point that I had to take the store offline for a little while. Everything should be working now. -
Inappropriate?After going throuhg a very tedious and somewhat pointless account activation and purchase of free widgets I get the download link that joy fully tells me. "Error: Sorry, but the requested file wasn't found. Possible Cause: Wrong path"
You may be great at making widgets but your website is terrible.
I’m frustrated
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I am terribly sorry. I was working on the site. I changed some store configuration settings to allow for more downloads over a greater period of time and it messed some other stuff up. It's working now and d/l are able to be resumed. -
Inappropriate?your website is truly an abomination. At least allow download of the free widgets without an account. Put them on rapidshare or something. That is if they actually work, which i sincerely doubt
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This is a pre-configured site that we put up because the population was demanding our widgets. I will be creating a better site that will work a lot better and also have a better flow within the next couple of weeks.
Also, we did work out most of our bugs within the beta period, but if you are experiencing any difficulties, we would like to know about them so that we can fix the issues.
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Inappropriate?CES 09 and W2W are still hanging for me at 65% before saying the source file could not be read.
I’m sad
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What browser are you downloading from? What is your connection speed?
This will help me find the issue here -
I am going back and forth with our hosting company on this issue. Please be patient as we try to resolve it. -
Inappropriate?I got it to work by pausing the download before the point where it was hanging and then resuming it right after.
im on firefox with dsl
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?We already know that our website isn't the best "Temporary" website in the world. But it does get the information and Data to You the user.
Please understand and be patient with us over the next few weeks while we upgrade and refine the widgets store.
And we promise, NO JOOMLA!!
We are trying to be as optimistic as possible here, Please join in.
Thank You
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Please e-mail me at Jon@indakind.com and I will be happy to send them to you. This way I can track our distributions.
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What about one that you can change to whatever your heart desires? It's very theme-able. It comes with 8 different clocks, and again, build your own, if you need help, just ask. -
Inappropriate?OK guys if you can't manage to download the ZIP files without corruption, what I did was pause the download at exactly 50% and then unpause it. He has an issue with the server timing out the connection wayyyy too fast and it stops the download. If it gets stuck the ZIP will be corrupt.
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Inappropriate?Jon - Installed netframework 3.0 (the Clock still does not work for me) Does it need 3.5??
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We tried to put this in the help section of our site. But most of our widgets require .NET 3.5 sp1. Try and install that and it should work just fine. Any more questions, Just ask.
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This would be my fault and I apologize, when I packaged this up I forgot the settings.xml file that the program needs to run. I reset everybody's downloads so you should be able to download it with the code that you received from us. If you can't let me know. -
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Matt Thanks it works now.... I tried everything. -
Inappropriate?Better yet. Jon - When the Guys at your company setup a new machine to run your Widgets. WHat is your install procedure. Fresh from the start with the basics. What OS are you installing? What Graphics Driver? What extra OS Upgrades do you install to get your software to work? Problem is that we need to know this... there is no mention of installing anything extra with BumpTop other than in the Tech notes. But I did all that an I still have errors and crashing. Just tell us how you do it and then we will have someplace to start that we know works.
Thanks
Chris
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?Currently, Our widgets have been tested on most windows versions from XP to WIN 7. and if it will run Bumptop it will run our widgets.
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Inappropriate?But how do you setup your test machines.... I'm sure there are things that you have to install first when starting from a freshly installed OS. There is something that we are all overlooking and not installing. Heres so help
#0 Fresh install in Parallels Desktop of XP sp2 or Fresh Install on hardware
#1 Nvidia 182.50 Drivers
#2 Follow the Tech Docs provided by BumpTop
#3 Install -Visual C++ 2005 redistributables
Thats all that BumpT tells us we should install.... but I think you are installing something else to get it to work.
I’m confused
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Like I stated above, The only thing we add to that list is .NET 3.5 SP1 redist. Hopefully in the future we plan on not using .NET so those won't be needed. -
Inappropriate?When i try to download the Weather Widget it can't download it. When it gets to 2 MB It just stops and then is says finish. And the file is 2 MB Big when it should be 3,6... Can anyone help me?
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Use a D/L manager it will help you out in your daily computing as well
Flashget - http://www.flashget.com/en/download.htm -
Inappropriate?We have a section set up already for individual widget questions Here:
http://getsatisfaction.com/indakindde...
If you could, Please start directing your questions there. I would help us organize this a bit better.
Thanks
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They work at least the clock works. I was having issues until they uploaded a working version so if you D/L'ed it within the last week D/Led it again. Again they work.... you must be installing it wrong. -
Inappropriate?i tried to download the weather widget for almost 2 days, but i couldn't
can anybody got that file UPLOAD it please. it seems a nice widget.
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Inappropriate?We have updated the widgets, and the problems have been fixed.
Bump2Time - Fixed
Bump 2 Animated Themes - Fixed
Window 2 Weather - Mostly fixed - Still have to update light rain and Overcast states. We should be able to get to this in the next week.
Thanks all.
I’m not celebrating my 32nd B-day, I refuse!!
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Inappropriate?someone help me please !!!
i cant download any of'em ...
somebody upload the weather widget, if he could ....!
I’m frustrated
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Shadow, like I said initially the clock did not work but they fixed the issue. I have not tried any of the others. Again Bump 2 Time... Works. Also the machine that I have it working on is XP sp2 with Net framework 3.0 only.... it did not need 3.5. Oh ya I think I forgot to say that .... It Works! -
Inappropriate?We apologize for all of the confusion with the downloading. We are still having issues and hope to resolve them soon. In the meantime, you can download Window to the Weather and CES09 Animated Theme from our homepage at widgets.indakind.com. For those looking for Bump to Time, you can still order that and if you send an email to Matthew@indakind.com from the same email that you used to order from, and I will email the widget to you.
I’m sad about all the confusion
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Inappropriate?http://getsatisfaction.com/bumptop/to...
I made this weather widget.
It's not super pretty, but it works (and it's free).
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Cool!!, Our weather widget has always been free as well. It looks like you need to use the built in widget support Bumptop has though. If you download any of our widgets you can see how this works.
The widgets have a \widget directory where you find the \themes dir on your computer. This \widget directory also contains other directories like *.widget . And each one of those has a \data dir.
When you make your widget You need a file named widget.json that contains variables for it. like so:
{
// Widget header block
"header" : {
"version" : "0.1",
"name" : "",
"author" : "",
"description" : "weather",
"url" : "",
// NOTE: This represents the schema from which this widget file will be validated
// against. This allows BumpTop to add and modify default widget changes as
// time progresses, and allows theme developers to ensure that their widgets
// work on the latest compatible versions of BumpTop. Do not change this
// value, unless your widget conforms to the specified in the value.
// Please see the widget docs for more information.
"schema" : "widget/0.1"
},
"widget" : {
"relativeWorkingDirectory" : "data/",
// application to load on startup, and has the same lifetime as the BumpTop process itself
"startupApplication" : {
"path" : "Weather.exe",
"args" : "-run"
},
// an icon reference whose behaviour can be overriden to launch an external application
// or path
"icons" : [
{
"filename" : "weather.png",
"label" : "Weather",
"launchApplication" : {
"path" : "Weather.exe",
"args" : "-edit"
}
}
]
}
}
And the output image of your widget should go to the \data directory: \widgets\weather.widget\data\
Hope this helps. Let me or Matt know if you would like any help(Like the help we have offered in the past) -
The website is down temporarily while we switch hosts. We are hoping that once hosts are switched it will clear up the download issue that people have been having. Check back later today and it should be up. -
Inappropriate?The link is not working. What's going on?:(
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We are in the process of switch hosts, I've never seen a dns change take this long, but they can take up to 48 hours. -
We are in the process of switch hosts, I've never seen a dns change take this long, but they can take up to 48 hours. -
I still cannot access the site. The dns change really take so long! -
Inappropriate?hey has the website name changed if so reply
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Inappropriate?Just checked myself, It looks like we are still waiting for the DNS server to update the address to our new server.
Sorry for the downtime.
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Inappropriate?Can you release the Website's IP directly? Maybe we can access the website by IP. Or you can change another DNS server...
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I think that is part of the problem. We did change DNS Servers at the same time that we switched hosts. -
Inappropriate?The widgets site is back up and running. Thanks for your patience.
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when i go to http://widgets.indakind.com , i still get a cannot find page errorm and www.indakind.com still has "Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL" -
Indakind.com is still being worked on, but http://widgets.indakind.com works fine for me on all 3 browsers, try and restart your browser. or computer. -
Inappropriate?is there an email adress i can contanct you at? the "Contact us" pane of the website is out... and i want to ask somthing bout W2W
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Inappropriate?I still cannot find the website...I've tried 3 browsers and restarted my computer but still doesn't work. Just like the problem Corhen has.
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Inappropriate?This is odd, I have had multiple people test the site and you two are the only ones that can't seem to view it. Could it be that your ISP has different sites blocked. Or maybe that your individual DNS server hasn't updated yet with the correct Info. I use OpenDNS for my home connections.
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i can acess it now, i could bout 10 minutes after you posted "Indakind.com is still being worked on, but http://widgets.indakind.com works fine for me on all 3 browsers, try and restart your browser. or computer. " -
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Inappropriate?Hey
Great stuff you put out there..
One thing though I had an error during registration..
I registered with 3 different email in 3 different browsers and same error was displayed everytime:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.secureserver.net:25 (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. ) in D:\Hosting\4401493\html\widgets.indakind.com\libraries\phpmailer\smtp.php on line 105
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.secureserver.net:25 (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. ) in D:\Hosting\4401493\html\widgets.indakind.com\libraries\phpmailer\smtp.php on line 105
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to smtp.secureserver.net:25 (A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. ) in D:\Hosting\4401493\html\widgets.indakind.com\libraries\phpmailer\smtp.php on line 105
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in D:\Hosting\4401493\html\widgets.indakind.com\libraries\phpmailer\smtp.php on line 101
I’m confident
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Í deleted my cookies, did another registration, filled in some random digits in the fax field - no error was returned
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Inappropriate?We are working on the mail server issues today, Hope to get them all fixed soon.
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Inappropriate?I am confused about the way to get the widget. Why should we put the widgets into the cart and select "Ship Method"? Why couldn't we just click "Download" and download the file...lol I think it's not convient. :,(
I’m confused
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i had this problem too, i dont wanna pay 11 dollars for a free widget -
We are still having issues our hosting mail servers, in the meantime, enjoy the free downloads. The links can be found on the product page. -
11 Dollars for a widget!! Where did you find a widget for that? -
Oh I did not mean I want free widgets. I just mean that I want a convenient way to download the widgets.lol I really appreciate your hard working! :D -
We have plans of releasing a "Widget's Widget" that will handle the browsing and Downloads of new widgets into Bumptop.
Picture a single widget on your desktop that has previews and info for all the new widgets available for Bumptop. This widget also allows you to browse for more and even Download/Purchase new widgets. Without ever opening up a web browser!
That is the plan but it is a ways away. We still have 2-3 projects ahead of it. -
Inappropriate?Does anyone know how to uninstall the widget? thanks
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Inappropriate?You can uninstall the widgets from the Add/Remove Programs part of the control panel. (Just like any other program in windows).
You must quit Bumptop before trying to uninstall any widgets.
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Inappropriate?weather widget not working properly (at least in my country -> Latvia)
at ~18:00 day time widget shows moons picture instead of sun
sorry for my english
I’m unconcerned
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It is working perfectly then. It is meant to switch from day to night at 18:00 and from night to day at 06:00. The pro version will calculate out the exact sunrise and sunset times among other features. -
then don't call it as free widget because for free u get version where at day it shows moon in window, I don't think that that is perfectly, I would call it a demo version with limited features -
then don't call it as free widget because for free u get version where at day it shows moon in window, I don't think that that is perfectly, I would call it a demo version with limited features
It's a pity because I like that widget, great work. -
The Pro version has so many other features and a whole new code base. Therefore the two products are separate from each other. This makes this version a free widget that works as it is intended to work (although it may not be how you would like it to work) -
never mind, I made my own weather widget. with sunrise and sunset features about in 3 h ... -
Do you have a pic? Will you make it available for DL? -
no its only for my personal use, because there is no feature for adding locations, it shows weather only for my current location. I'm not very good in programming, I'm just learning :) made in c# -
Inappropriate?We are encouraging others to make as many widgets for Bumptop as possible. If you need any info or help contact me or Matt and we would be happy to help. We are trying to have people start using the actual widget support format built into Bumptop. So that we don't have people dropping all sorts of whatever's on the Desktop.
It just clutters it.
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Inappropriate?i like w2w, but there is no feed back setting for wether its displaying the right town or not.
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It should pop up an error if the town is not found and if the weather data cannot be found. If it just goes away after you type in your city. It worked.
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Inappropriate?None of the widgets I tried here worked for me. They either did not show, their processes crashed, or they stopped me from booting properly.
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Inappropriate?This is disgusting. I may aswell have purchased Dreamscape or another desktop personalization and organisation application. Atleast once purchased all widgets are free and there are a HUGE range of widgets, with this app i've seen like 5 useful widgets. The website design is terrible, account activation didnt work for me, animated theme didnt work either as it let me download ONE file before telling me my account is disabled, and also bumptop has zilch features compared to your prototype video, I am VERY disappointed with a $30 app. I dont even usually buy customization programs because I dont think I need them. But this app seemed very useful - though with all the let downs and not even support for pinning icons so you cant bump them. I can honestly say my opinion of this app is that it is a HUGE let down.
I’m Angry
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