YourMinis To Launch Apollo Version Today
Tue, 2007-03-20 17:24 — mikepotter
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I've been informed that YourMinis will be launching their Apollo based desktop widget platform very shortly. I've been using it for a while now, and its pretty cool. The widgets from YourMinis show up on my desktop, either Windows or Mac, without any problems. The same code as I'm using for my web based widgets too, which is great.
When you have the Apollo version of YourMinis installed, you can see another button on the YourMinis website (very cool - it actually appears in the widget after you launch the Apollo mini manager if you didn't have mini manager running, nice!) that says "copy to desktop". Doing that adds the widget to your desktop based widgets, with the same controls as you have on the web versions (ie. copy to web is still enabled on the desktop widgets.)
There are still a few bugs in this version - I had it crash on me once, but I like the idea of using the same widgets for both my desktop and the web. I think this has some potential.
I went to listen to Steve Rubel talk today at the AjaxWorld Expo in New York... He loves widgets: hopefully he'll check out yourMinis soon.
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Yourminis Apollo support
Mike,
Thanks so much for your support. Yes we are launching the Apollo support later today or tomorrow....still an alpha and has some minor bug but overall I think it shows the power of Apollo as well as yourminis very well.
Apollo support launched!
Mike - Thanks for the mention and the support... we've actually just launched the functionality on our site, with the blog update here: http://blog.yourminis.com/desktop/index.html. We're excited to get this out the door, but we'll definitely keep on working through the issues...