Information Applets

These provide information to enhance your life. Although not necessary for day-to-day living (see Life Applets) they are highly desirable.

Name	Version	Description
Photo Frame	Alpha	An applet to display single images into the main window, or full-screen so it can be used as a screen-saver, or image in a digital photo frame. Clicking on the main picture will open the picture to occupy the full browser window. You can then click on the left and right of the picture to scroll through them. Return to the main window by clicking in the bottom central third of the image. More... TIP: Install fullerscreen in Firefox browsers to run this as a real-life digital photo frame. The images must be explicitly specified in the configuration file, as listed in `warp/conf/photoframe/photoframe.conf`. The files themselves are then copied in the `photos` subdirectory in the same place. Developers should look to this as an example of how to override the whole WARP system to take-over the full browser frame. Future Plans: Add a slideshopw option. Download: Base Minerva Install
Weather	Alpha	In combination with a daily crontab job (run from `~minerva/update/weather`, this presents the weather in a simple textual form. Download: Base Minerva Install Future Plans: Graphics would benice!
Currency Calculator	Preliminary	Downloads real-time currency information, and generates a large conversion table for any two selected currencies.
Twitter	Beta	This simply reports the basic information from the friends_timeline of your Twitter account. Add the username and password to the config script, and away you go. To use the Bearskin tool, `twit`, which updates your twitter status, modify the you will need to add your login credentials to the script. Dependencies: curl Download: Twitter Minerva Applet Future Plans: Graphics would benice!