Day 26 - Jedi Digg

Today's application is a tool bar docked at the top of your screen which displays the digg front page stories in rotation. From this tool bar you can left click the sotry title to open an embedded browser viewing the referenced page, right click the story title to open the story from duggmirror, left click the "Open Digg Page" text to open the digg page with comments, and lastly, you can directly digg the story from this toolbar. That's right, you can digg the story via a button on the toolbar.

The options menu (available via systray icon) allows you to change the opacity of the embedded browser, set your digg username and password, and choose which digg categories you'd like to see.

I believe it is against the Digg TOS to use this application (user beware), but c'mon - it's so damn convenient. Kevin Rose - give us something like this. If your boys can't make it happen, hire me. I have no problem cranking out applications. If you want your ads on it, that's cool. I would have done it but that would break the Google TOS too, and I can't go pissing off all the big tech companies in the same night (there's always tomorrow).

This was written in 6 hours - the longest of any of my applications. It's still far from perfect, but it's open source! Expect the list of mods to grow quickly very soon. Obviously I wish I could have made it do different types of feeds - like friends, upcoming, etc... Ran out of time. As usual, The Software Jedi will be back tomorrow - same time, same place.

*** known issues - the browser control doesn't like popups at all

For those not familiar with my applications, I encourage you to try them all out. If you're a programmer you'll probably like tweaking the source code too! All you need to run them is the latest .NET 2.0 framework. It's a quick download, available here!

 Download the app here
 Download the source here

The Jedi also reminds you to look at the paypal donate button on the right... You know you want to click it.

May the source be with you.