Midnight Cheese

I haven’t mentioned Candor Gallery in quite some time, so I wanted to post a little update. I’ve been paying attention to traffic stats lately and am excited to report that the Candor Gallery Widget is still receiving up to 115,000 views per month. While no major updates have been released in the last couple years, artwork continues to be submitted.

The amount of people who have contributed artwork and who continue to use the widget as a source for viewing artwork still amazes me. My thanks goes out to everyone who has contributed over the years.

With that said, I think it’s time to consider a Candor Gallery refresh. Nothing definite is in store yet, but something along the lines of Flickr / Deviant Art / Dribbble may be in order. Something that lets users interact with each other more so than the current setup allows. The widget will always remain in place as long as people continue to download it, but with such a talented pool of artists as a user base, I think there’s an opportunity to do something more for that group of users and beyond.

Please send any feedback to curator@candorgallery.com or post a comment below.

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!