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To submit a widget, you first need to create an account. To comment on or rate a widget, you first need an account.

We want to make your contributions as simple as possible, but accounts are required to help prevent things like ballot box stuffing. We’re not very rigorous with account verification, but we will review entries, and make adjustments as necessary.

To create your account, select a username and password. This can be the same as your Bluepulse username, but I wouldn’t recommend using the same password for both services.

Aside from that, we’ll need a valid e-mail address. We won’t spam you, or sell or share your e-mail address, but we do need to verify that an identity is associated with your account, and if you ever forget your password, this is where we’ll mail it.

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There are quite a few ways to find widgets via bpwidgets.com. Here are the primary ones:

• You will find widgets via the Home page and the Find Widgets page.
• You can view widgets by category on the BP-Widgets home page. These are not Bluepulse categories, but rather a traditional taxonomy for classifying information. The home page will list each category, and up to five random widgets in each category. Click a widget name to view details, or a category name to view all widgets in that category. The category list is generated every 12 hours.
• Featured widgets are also listed on the home page. Several random, featured widgets will be listed here. This list is generated every 12 hours.
• Via Find Widgets, you can view the most popular widgets: those widgets that have received the most ratings since they’ve been added to bpwidgets.com.
• Via Find Widgets, you can view the most active widgets: those widgets that have received the most ratings recently.
• Via Find Widgets, you can view the highest-ranked widgets: those widgets that have received the highest average rating since they’ve been added to bpwidgets. The minimum number of ratings required to make this list is periodically increased.
• Via Find Widgets, you can view the latest widgets: those widgets that have been added to bpwidgets.com most recently.
• You can perform a search for widgets via Find Widgets. The search will automatically suggest matching entries as you type in your query.
• You can use the tag cloud on the Find Widgets page. The tag cloud lists the most popular tags used to describe widgets at bpwidgets.com. Click a tag name to view all of the widgets tagged with it. The larger the tag, the more widgets that have been tagged with that name.
• You can also use the tag browser via Find Widgets. By selecting a tag letter, all tags with that first initial letter will be displayed. You can then click a tag name to view all widgets tagged with that name.
• Know of a widget that’s not listed at bpwidgets.com? If it’s a recent entry (within the past day or so), it might not have been released from the approval queue yet. It’s also possible that the developer hasn’t listed the widget on bpwidgets.com. We require the widget owners to submit their widgets, rather than allowing third-party submissions. Let the developer know that you’d like to see them listed.

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Commenting on and rating widgets helps other BP-Widget users benefit from your experience using a widget. Both are straightforward, and are very similar to other systems you’ve run across.

• To comment or rate, you must be logged in.
• If you select the “Remember Me” option, we’ll set a cookie on your PC, and we’ll automatically log you in each time you visit bpwidgets.com. You can disable this feature by clicking the “Logoff” link in the upper right hand corner.
• To be logged in, obviously you need an account.
• To comment or rate, find a widget using any of the find tools, and open a widget’s detail page.
• To rate a widget, click the number of stars you would like to give the widget.
• To comment, scroll to the bottom of the details page and add your comments.
• You can comment multiple times per widget, but you can only rate each widget once.
• Please keep comments on-topic and constructive.

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You can install and manage widgets either via your mobile phone, or via a PC web browser. If you’re new to using applications on your cell phone, I’d recommend installing them via the PC control panel.

Via a PC

1. Head to www.bluepulse.com , login to your account, and click the “Widgets” tab.
2. Click the “Add Widgets” link at the top of the page.
3. Either enter a widget’s keyword, or select a category of widgets to view.
4. On the resulting page, tick the checkboxes next to each widget you would like to add, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click “add.”

Install Widget via Keyword Walk-through | Install Widget via Category Walk-through

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Via a Mobile Phone

1. Sign in to bluepulse, and select the Control Panel widget.
2. Select “Add Widget.”
3. If the widget is listed in a category, select it; otherwise, select “Keyword.”
4. Select a widget to install, or enter the widget’s keyword, depending on what option you chose in the preceding step.
5. When the widget description is displayed, select “Install” to begin installation.
6. When installation is complete, you will be taken back to the Control Panel.
7. Select “Close” to exit the Control Panel.

Install Widget via Keyword Walk-through | Install Widget via Category Walk-through

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What is Bluepulse?

Bluepulse (uppercase “B”) is the company behind the mobile platform bluepulse ( lowercase “b”). The bluepulse platform is a piece of software you install on your cell phone that enables you to use widgets, which are tiny applications that provide slices of functionality to you.

You can think of bluepulse (metaphorically) as being similar to a PC operating system, for example, Windows. Windows does some neat things on its own, but most of us spend our time working in applications that install under Windows. We use browsers to visit web sites, Outlook to access our e-mail, Word to compose documents. Windows manages the software installed on our PC’s, much like bluepulse manages the widgets on our mobile phones.

You can download the bluepulse client by signing up for an account at www.bluepulse.com . During signup, you’ll be prompted to download the build that best suits your phone.

What are widgets?

Widgets are (again, metaphorically) similar to applications or software that we install on our PC’s. But in this case, bluepulse takes care of most of the plumbing, so all we need to do is select a widget to install, and bluepulse takes care of the rest. Once installed, we can start up multiple widgets, and switch between them, just like we can multitask on our PC’s between multiple applications.

Widgets provide the functionality. We can do things like check our e-mail with the e-mail widget, read news headlines with the RSS reader widget, send and receive instant messages with the messaging widget, and so on.

One of the neat things about bluepulse and widgets is that the platform makes it very easy to add your own widgets, and widgets can be developed in whatever flavor of server-side code you like. Because of this, I expect that we’ll see a large number of new widgets in the coming year, hence the need for BP-Widgets.

You can find widgets available by clicking the Find button. Or, you browse this list of bluepulse widgets, which is irregularly maintained, but included for the benefit of web crawlers.

Why BP-Widgets?

Some widgets are available via defined categories in the bluepulse client. Right now, those categories are “Entertainment,” “Lifestyle,” and “Free.” Other widgets are only available via a keyword that you must enter. As the number of widgets increases, it becomes difficult to not just find widgets, but find the right ones, the ones that meet your needs, the ones that others have used successfully. BP-Widgets helps you discover widgets, and find out what others think about them.

The end goal is to improve the selection and quality of bluepulse widgets, and help our fellow bluepulse users find the best widgets for their phones.