Hey everyone, you may recall last month we wrapped up our reader poll asking what features you’d like to see added to this here blog.
Downloadable high-resolution images, a desktop widget and a subscribe-via-email option were the top 3 requests – and that’s exactly what we’re adding here today. Take a quick peek at the sidebar —–>
Multi-Megabyte Images Await
We have a growing collection of images and artwork from PlayStation games available via Flickr. Each image is available for download at multiple resolutions, most of which scale up to 1280 x 720 and/or 1920 x 1080, and a few that are even bigger than this for you bandwidth gluttons. We’ll be adding new pictures to this collection fairly regularly, so we’ve also created a separate image feed (RSS) that you can subscribe to if you’d like to be notified of updates.
You Love the Blog, Now Get the Widget Too!
We’ve created a PlayStation.Blog widget that lives on your desktop and automatically pulls in all of our latest blog posts. We’ve got two flavors for you guys: one for the Mac, the other for the PC. The Mac widget is your standard OS X Dashboard Widget (download here), and the PC version uses Yahoo! Widgets. Note that you’ll need to first install Yahoo!’s Widget app before you can download and use this PC version.
You Can Never Have Too Much Email
We’ve added an option to subscribe to PlayStation.Blog updates via email (this is in addition to our RSS feed and is provided via the same service, Feedburner). Simply click on the email icon, enter your email address and hit “subscribe.” Once you verify that you’re indeed human and your email works, you’re all set. As we publish new posts here, you’ll automatically receive updates via email.
That’s it for now. It bears mentioning, while info is – and will always be – our priority and focus for you guys here, how you access this info is a matter of preference that can take a lot of different shapes. Hopefully these new features give you a few more options to consider, and at very least, make this blog a little more useful. We’ll be looking into some additional blog bling down the road, most of which involves things you’ve commented or emailed us about, but if you have any additional ideas, let us know. Thanks everyone.
like I said earlier the new blog features are great… hopefully you guys aren’t going to stop here!
on a side note @zapruder you gotta let me know if the new psp is truly worth it because I’m debating selling mine. and @ bobtheduck you gotta let me know if Lair is worth shelling out $60 because my decision was shaken with those reviews. i really wanna demo it. Thanks
Lh
i second the guy ont eh vista sidebar gadget.
How about the playstation 3 browser? Any update to improve it?
awesome
Why was my post erased? Well anyway, good features indeed. Also I like warhawk alot.
I think Google Gadgets should be added too.
OSX widget = Woo, so glad you guys included that.
Great features! However, unless I’m over looking it, I don’t see anywhere to change your password if you need to. I forgot my password after I registered and I did the “forgot your password?” recovery. It generated me a new one and sent it via email. Now its this crazy combination of numbers/letters and I don’t see anywhere where I can set it back to something I can remember.
if I am just over looking it and someone knows of where you can do this. I invite you to send me a message via the PS forums to “Mattchewie”.
I have a suggestion for a widget:
Is it possible to make a widget similar to the one youve just made where you can actually see your friendslist on PSN? Since alot of people are at their computers most of the time i think its a quick and easy way to see what they are playing.
Good job on the email option, guys! And loving what you guys have been doing with the blog so far.
Well how about now cater to the people who are adapters of new technology and make a Windows Vista desktop Gaget!
While on the subject of gadgets, how bout a gadget for the PS3. Somthing on the top of the screen like the VISTA sidebar. Something that gives local weather, the time and date, and of course playstation blog updates. Of course a list extra gadgets in the playstation store would be nice as well.
Loving the blog, but the one thing that has been aggravating me is Gravatar…..simply horrible! Please find a new way to use the avatars!
@ericent
I even thought about that as well. I am sure the PS3 can incorporate some kind of sidebar similar to Apple or winvista. Actually linux came out with that stuff and since Sony is using a custom linux OS i think they could definitley implement a sidebar even while we are playing videogames, videos , music or even browsing the web. It would be convenient to have something such as that so we can quickly access things such as video chat, see whos is online, messages etc.
using the link on the main page for the image feed doesn’t seem to work on the psp rss reader.
Has anyone else run into this?
If so, could you give an outline of some steps?
thanks.
This is very good news because alot of us love to have High resolution backgrounds so thanks a bunch and more so Sony,
THANKSSSSS for not forgetting about us Mac people. A good widget is always lots of fun :)!
I love this blog, feels like our secret place where PlayStation gamers get these little tidbits of exclusive info and behind the scenes goodies.
So yeah keep it coming SCEA!
Yea. Apple Widget.
Thanks. I got my wish.
Dont know if this was mentioned… probably was….
Google gadgets and vista gadgets.
I dont use Yahoo services.
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