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Chumby Widget

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
at 9:47pm

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Recently, I showed off my new Chumby. It’s truly addictive, and the live community has had a blast being able to send messages to Chuck the Chumby. I have a user named Rotozip who created a Widget that allows them to do that. I didn’t remember the username RotoZip, until he reminded me he is the person who created the “iAlertYou”. It’s a program that I featured in my “Top 100 Mac Apps” list. It’s an equivalent to a car alarm, only for your laptop.

This is Chumby the personal internet player. Since getting this device for Christmas I have been working on a couple of widgets for it. You can see them running on my virtual Chumby above. One of the widgets is a Blockbuster widget which will display the movies you have in your queue waiting to be mailed out. The other widget is a Chris.Pirillo.com widget that allows users in his chat room to send messages to the Chumby. This device is really cool and quite fun to develop for. You can get to know what Chumby is all about and get your own at www.chumby.com.

By hanging out into our chat room, you can become a regular voiced user. Once you are a voiced user, you can add comments to the Chumby, as well!

If you are a Flash Programmer and have ideas for Chumby, or any other applications I might be able to share with others, send an email to me at chris@pirillo.com.

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14 Comments

LifeFilms

January 23rd, 2008
at 12:46pm

cool another first comment love ur vids chris

jeffmoor1991

January 23rd, 2008
at 12:56pm

whats that thing he’s showing the widget on?

scorpio209

January 23rd, 2008
at 12:59pm

that thing is ******* retarded

paperback333

January 23rd, 2008
at 1:05pm

wow, not another first comment, how very special you must feel :3

Smartguy87

January 23rd, 2008
at 11:38pm

Wow, that is amazing! The technology they come up with these days are just crazy. I am going to look into getting one of these for my desk.

SLT23C

January 24th, 2008
at 4:34am

i like “slaping”Turtles”

Windows Vista Torrent

January 24th, 2008
at 6:25am

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DaMirrorLink

January 24th, 2008
at 7:02am

Chris, did you know the character in the show WildFire is named Chris Pirillo? o_o

Adrian Miller

January 26th, 2008
at 10:38pm

I dont get it… i have a computer that does all that……..

Another example of getting something because its “trendy”.
Consumerism and trend following gone mad.

Like most things on the net, once 5 or 10 people do it or use it, its no longer cool. The internet used to be about underground culture and exclusivity, now anyone can get on it. Its getting lamer by the day.

Other pet hates: YouTube, again the first 5 to 10 videos of people lip sync’ing to daggy songs was funny. Now theres 10,000,000.

Please Chris, chop the Chumby up into little bits and avoid being a follower………………..

LifeFilms

January 31st, 2008
at 10:23pm

srry now i feel retarted

myqute

February 28th, 2008
at 9:40pm

Interesting….although I don’t use IRC….

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