Midnight Cheese

Once again Apple has been kind enough to feature Candor Gallery on the Dashboard homepage. We already have quite a few new works coming in this morning and hope to have those posted this evening. Thanks to Apple for the extra exposure and to everyone that is contributing to Candor!

Candor Gallery now has an RSS feed that lets you keep up with new works as they’re added to the gallery. Viewers can also keep up-to-date with the gallery in general by subscribing to the news feed.

Yesterday Candor Gallery posted its 1000th image! In the first 3 months Candor gained 500 images, but it took another 12 months to gain the next 500. That’s about 1.5 submissions per day over the last year.

By popular demand, a Candor Gallery Gadget now exists for Google Homepage users. I think this was the best solution for users that aren’t always in front of a Mac or who simply aren’t Mac users at all. It’s not as elegant of an experience as Dashboard can provide, but it’s largely the same functionality. Creating the Gadget was fun. They’re similar to Widgets in that it’s all HTML and Javascript. Gadgets keep everything in one file wrapped in an XML container. To install the Candor Gadget you can visit http://www.candorgallery.com/ and click the “Add to Google” button or simply click this link.

Candor Gallery has been included in the most recent issue of iCreate Magazine on the free software and resource CD that comes bundled with the magazine. iCreate is full of how-to articles relating to mostly consumer applications created by Apple. (iDVD, iWeb, iMovie, etc.)

It’s very exciting to have Candor “published.” Issue #41 will be on newstands in England for another 3 days, but should be available in the U.S. for a few weeks longer.

Candor Gallery has received 64 new images in the last two days. It’s getting closer and closer to the 1000 image mark. Thanks to everyone who is contributing to the project!

Candor has been given an update. Version 1.2 now includes a previous button so users can easily see the last image that was displayed.

With a lot of help from Ernie and his stellar PHP skills, we’ve created a web gallery that displays all the works that have been included in Candor.

And a smaller detail: The widget will now pop up a little notification when a new version of Candor has been released. This should avoid having to send email out to a large list of current participants.