Widgets

Jul 28, 2007

Posted by: John Admin

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Harry Potter Widget Gallery

What’s a widget?

NOTE: Konfabulator is now Yahoo! Widgets. Konfabulator widgets will still work on the same system, but need to upgrade your software – and will need to to make ours work. Go here to get the Mac version, here for the Windows one.

If you would like to contribute a widget or help us create the ones for which we’ve got ideas, please e-mail us. Thanks!

Harry Potter Quote Conjurer v2.0

Honored as a Featured Widget and Staff Favorite by Apple.com, February 17, 2007

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
– Yahoo! Widget Engine (Coming Soon)

Info:

The Harry Potter Quote Conjurer is a fun diversion for any Potter fan. Designed by Chris Chang and illustrated by Heather Campbell.

Features:

New in version 2.0: There are seven new characters, including Lupin, McGonagall, Moody, Neville, Percy, Tonks, and Umbridge.
New in version 2.0: Choose which characters you want to display, copy a quote to the clipboard
– The conjurer will pull a quote at random from a database of thousands, and serve it up next to an illustration of the character with whom the quote is associated.
– It may refresh automatically at an interval you set
– Manually refresh the conjurer by clicking on the character portrait
– Click the quote reference to view the relevant chapter summary at our partner site, The Harry Potter Lexicon (www.hp-lexicon.org)
– Expect constant updates – additional charcters, hundreds more quotes (from the last few books) – in the future.

Harry Potter Search Widget v2.0

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine (Coming Soon)

Info:

This replaces the old Floo Network search widget with one handy search bar. Use this widget to find anything Harry Potter: Search the largest and oldest news database, the most detailed encyclopedia, the largest online video gallery, the largest online image gallery, the most frequently updated podcast, the only archive of J.K. Rowling quotes, the largest collection of products and much, much more.

Harry Potter Quote Conjurer v1.0

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

The Harry Potter Quote Conjurer is a fun diversion for any Potter fan. Designed by Chris Chang and illustrated by Heather Campbell, the conjurer is the next of a series of Harry Potter Widgets.

Features:

– The conjurer will pull a quote at random from a database of thousands, and serve it up next to an illustration of the character with whom the quote is associated.
– It may refresh automatically at an interval you set
– Manually refresh the conjurer by clicking on the character portrait
– Click the quote reference to view the relevant chapter summary at our partner site, The Harry Potter Lexicon (www.hp-lexicon.org)
– Expect constant updates – additional charcters, hundreds more quotes (from the last few books) – in the future.

Harry Potter Search Widget v1.0

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

A Widget for easy searching of the Floo Network, the most comprehensive collection of Harry Potter info on the Web. With one click search news (from www.leakynews.com), the Lexicon (the full Harry Potter encyclopedia at www.hp-lexicon.org), Quotes (all J.K. Rowling interviews at www.quick-quotes-quill.org), the Galleries (image collection at www.hogwarts-gallery.org) and the Cauldron Shop (the one-stop shop for all Harry Potter merchandise, at www.thecauldronshop.com). Designed by Chris Chang and brought to you by www.leakynews.com.

Harry Potter News Widget v1.4 for OSX Dashboard

Screengrabs:

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Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard

Info:

A widget for all your Harry Potter news, fed directly from TLC. Preferences include switching house colors to suit your fancy, and a sorting hat that will do it for you if you can’t decide! Designed by Chris Chang and brought to you by www.leakynews.com.

Please Note:

– Minimize the widget by clicking the triangle at the bottom.
– Minimized widget shows the number of new articles posted since minimizing. Counter goes from 0 to “15+”.
– Marks new articles posted since minimizing or hiding Dashboard. They are unmarked once you minimize or hide Dashboard again.

Harry Potter News Widget v1.1 for Yahoo! Widgets

Download:

Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

A widget for all your Harry Potter news, fed directly from TLC. Preferences include switching house colors to suit your fancy, and a sorting hat that will do it for you if you can’t decide! Designed by Chris Chang and brought to you by www.leakynews.com.

Please Note:

– Pressing the triangle moves the scrollbar back to the top where the latest news posts appear.


Out-Dated Widgets

Below are all of the widgets we have in our gallery that are no longer in use (ex. the countdown date for the widget has passed).

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Combined Countdown Widget

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

Counts down the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be released on July 21, 2007, as well as Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the film, to be released July 13, 2007. Designed as a Flash item by John Noe and created as a widget by Chris Chang.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Countdown Widget

Honored as a featured Widget by Apple.com, February 5, 2007

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

Counts down the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, to be released on July 21, 2007. Designed as a Flash item by John Noe and created as a widget by Chris Chang.

Order of the Phoenix Countdown Clock and News Reader

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Download (for Australia):

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

Counts down the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to the film version of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,” to be released on July 13, 2007. Also provides news headlines for all Harry Potter films. Conceived by John Noe and created by Chris Chang for LeakyNews.com, this is the latest in a series of widgets designed to keep a Harry Potter fan on the cutting edge.

Goblet of Fire DVD Countdown Widget v1.0

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Widget Engine

Info:

Counts down the remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds until the release of the DVD of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” Designed by Chris Chang and brought to you by www.leakynews.com.

Goblet of Fire Countdown Widget (Version 1.0)

Download:

Mac OSX Dashboard
Yahoo! Music Engine

Info:

Counts down to the second of the release of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” the fourth film in the Harry Potter franchise. Brought to you by www.the-leaky-cauldron.org, the top Harry Potter news site on the web.






The Leaky Cauldron is not associated with J.K. Rowling, Warner Bros., or any of the individuals or companies associated with producing and publishing Harry Potter books and films.