LuxSci has added a new Widget to its inventory of pre-defined Widgets available to all users — the “Multi-Feed” Widget.

With the Multi-Feed widget, you can specify an arbitrary collection of news feeds from diverse sources and have them be all downloaded, sorted together by date, and displayed to you as an aggregate list of news items in your Workspace.

The Multi-Feed Widget supports:

• RSS Feeds
• Twitter update feeds (showing the tweets of everyone that you follow on Twitter)
• LuxSci WebAide Blogs

In the future, other feed sources will also be supported, such as facebook.

LuxSci had made several improvements to its Widgets:

• Users can now make new entries in Blog widgets using either plain text or HTML editor modes.  Which should be used is now configurable as a Blog Widget property.
• WebAide-based Widgets and RSS feeds now all have an optional “maximum height” property.  Use this if you would rather the widget have an internal scroll bar and be shorter, rather than not scrolling and showing all applicable entries.
• The Email “Quick Check” widget now auto-checks the subscribed email folders every 2 minutes and updates the display of how many new and unread messages are in each of these folders.

LuxSci has released some updates to its WebAide Widgets.  These include:

• Search your address books quickly right from your Address Book Widgets using new integrated AJAX-based search functionality.
• Create new Blog entries right from your Blog widgets.
• Blog widgets now support automatic updates and paging through all of the entries in the blog.
• Custom HTML Widgets now contain a “notes” field where you can save information on where you get the custom HTML and how to edit/update it later.

Widgets keep getting more flexible.  Soon to come:  creation and sharing of additional Widget workspaces!

LuxSci has enhanced the import and export features of its Blogs WebAide so that users can import content from WordPress WXR export files and can export WebAide Blog posts into WXR files for import into WordPress blogs.

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If you have the need for a personal diary or journal, or an internal corporate blog or FAQ, LuxSci’s Blogs WebAide is an ideal solution.  Blogs WebAides allow you to create any number of personal or collaborative Blogs with zero setup and zero software installation.  Blogs are accessible via LuxSci’s WebMail interface or using RSS feeds.

LuxSci’s Blogs WebAide were previously called “eJournals”.  The new name better represents the many features associated with a blog.

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We have opened up the LuxSci FYI Blog to community comments.  We hope to encourage interaction with LuxSci, provide another venue for answering questions and providing useful information to users.

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