We already covered the WaveBoarder application, which is a helper application to Google Wave. The gadget makes it easier to navigate in Wave with the iphone and mean you only have one place where you can work with it. The gadget is available on itunes.
The video I created can be seen bellow.
I feel the application has been user friendly. If that is because HTML version for the iphone has been improved. But the whole experience works much better now. So it could actually be an application you can use for something useful.
As we all know we can already embed youtube videos into our waves, but what if we don’t want the hassle of uploading videos at youtube? Good thing we can use Nimbb gadget. This gadget allows us to add webcam video recordings into our wave. With this gadget we can share video messages with our contacts.
Nimbb is easy to use but the gadget is only good for one recording. If you decided to send another recording, you need to add the gadget again to be able to record a new message. Another limitation of this gadget would be the maximum duration for a recording which is only 30 seconds. So for short video messages, Nimbb is for you.
After a while of strenuous coding and testing, the developer is ready to make his/her work public. But one obstacle still remains for the developer and that is to make the Wave extension Installer.
The Wave extension installer is important as this simplifies the task in installing the app on wave. Because the developer aims his/her work for the public to use, the developer should make everything easy for the users to install and use his/her app. Imagine if you have to make your users learn a scripting language before they can use your app, chances are your users may grow tired of it and may missed the chance of using your app.
The Wave Extension Installer XML File Creator is an app specifically designed for developers to simplify their work on creating Wave Extension Installers. This app is built on Flex and using the wave-as-client ActionScript Library for Flex. This is a nice app to use for first time developers and to some because after all those strenuous coding and testing, developers may get lazy to create the wave extension installer. With this app, all you have to do is fill out the form, click “Done”, and copy the generated XML content. Just remember the app is bigger than a regular size blip so you may have to maximize your wavelet to fully view the app.
Struggling with decisions in life? Dilemmas? Wondering what the future has in store for us?
Ask the magic 8 ball!
The magic 8 ball originally created by Albert Carter in 1946 is a legendary fortune telling device or seeking device which is designed to answer every question. While the real thing is not compatible enough to be shared online with our friends, the guys in wave ActionScript library are so nice to create this wonderful magic 8 ball that you can share with your friends online on google wave with same wavelet allowing you to share its answers with your friends. It responds in real time and shakes as you click on it just like the way you do it in the real thing. With 20 different answers, the magic 8 ball is a good app to use when you’re struggling with decisions in life, dilemmas, and questions that your friends don’t even have the guts to answer.
The magic 8 ball gadget is built on Flex and using wave-as-client ActionScript library for Flex to connect to the JavaScript API available on Google Wave. This app shows you how simple apps can be so fun to use when you are on Google Wave. Come and enjoy this app with your friends for free on wavesandbox.com , if you have sandbox accounts, or on Google Wave Preview. Just click on the button that says add gadget and paste this gadget XML url: http://wave-as-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/example/wavemagic8/web/wavemagic8.xml
Wave Extension Installer XML file creator
After a while of strenuous coding and testing, the developer is ready to make his/her work public. But one obstacle still remains for the developer and that is to make the Wave extension Installer.
The Wave extension installer is important as this simplifies the task in installing the app on wave. Because the developer aims his/her work for the public to use, the developer should make everything easy for the users to install and use his/her app. Imagine if you have to make your users learn a scripting language before they can use your app, chances are your users may grow tired of it and may missed the chance of using your app.
The Wave Extension Installer XML File Creator is an app specifically designed for developers to simplify their work on creating Wave Extension Installers. This app is built on Flex and using the wave-as-client ActionScript Library for Flex. This is a nice app to use for first time developers and to some because after all those strenuous coding and testing, developers may get lazy to create the wave extension installer. With this app, all you have to do is fill out the form, click “Done”, and copy the generated XML content. Just remember the app is bigger than a regular size blip so you may have to maximize your wavelet to fully view the app.
The card gadget seems to be in its early stages still. I can see that the basic actions that we can do with a card or a deck can be done with this gadget. Flipping a card, dragging a card from the deck, stacking cards, peeking on one card, etc…. But there is one bug (or is it a feature?) in that when a player peeks on a turned up card, the peek action still occurs. It peeks at the back of the card. Well normally in a card game there’s no need to peek at the other side of a turned up card unless you scribbled your date’s number there and forgot about it. If it is a feature, it’s an unneeded one and looks to me like it screams for a fix on its irrelevance.
The gadget has a lot of potential to accommodate card games. Solitaire, strip poker, pusoy dos, etc… what with the actions that a participant can do. But the problem is that it’s too macro in its scope that playing a card game will get confusing easily because of the lack of rules and scoring for that specific game. I guess I’m asking for a different gadget here. Maybe something patterned after this one. But at least some restrictions to participants that they can only do an action on a card that they have and not cause chaos on the other player’s hand would be great.
