The Widgeteers are flexing their graphics muscles! Their first special occasion widgets -- for Halloween -- are downright scary! Though they're just getting started, you can bet The Widgeteers will go a long way with their viral ad widget service. You should use their widgets to advertise your site or blog, or even affiliate programs. Check 'em out

Opera Mobile 9.5 now introduces Opera Mobile browser to the mobile Internet experience, enabling one-click Web content access. This release marks the second Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile and the first-ever beta for UIQ-based phones. A developer version of S60 Widget manager is also available within the Opera Widgets SDK.

Opera Mobile 9.5 now introduces Opera Widgets to the mobile Internet experience, enabling one-click Web content access. This release marks the second Opera Mobile 9.5 beta for Windows Mobile and the first-ever beta for UIQ-based phones.

"To encourage the creation of cross-device Widgets, we've launched the X-Widgets Challenge. This gives prizes of up to $5,000 for the best cross-device Widgets. I’m looking forward to see what people come up with. The winning Widgets will also be promoted on the Opera Widgets web site."

Opera Mobile libera su más reciente versión beta para el navegador Opera Móvil. Será la segunda beta de Windows para teléfonos móviles, y la primera beta compatible con la plataforma Symbian UIQ.

There's been a lot of activity this week in the world of mobile browsers. On Friday, Mozilla introduced an alpha build for Fennec, the very-much-in-development mobile browser that will grow up to become Firefox for Mobile.

Google's personalized home page, iGoogle, is getting an update Thursday. Widgets on the page can support a new "canvas view," which expands the widget to the full iGoogle window. The 16 new or updated widgets that Google is currently promoting support this feature. There are more than 40,000 iGoogle widgets available, iGoogle group product manager Jessica Ewing told me. Google will not restrict monetization schemes from running in canvas view. Developers can put whatever they want in the pages.

Did you lose your widgets when you change to a new Blogger template? Here's how NOT to lose it again...

This quick guide will walk you through making a backup copy of your entire XML template. This will also allow you to save the data in your widgets for later re-installation. This guide is NOT for restoring your original template!

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