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Another quick announcement. I just released another version (0.9) of curreX – the Ajax based Currency Converter widget for WordPress.

Starting from this version, curreX also includes a Flash based widget and provides you with the option of selecting between the HTML/JavaScript version and it’s Flash counterpart from the widget configuration panel of WordPress.

A quick preview of the flash widget can be obtained from here. I’m pretty bad at creating snazzy graphics in flash – so it’s going to take a while to make the widget look nice. The current version is fully functional though.

As always, I’m open for any questions / comments / bug reports.

Here’s a nice trick I learnt a couple of days back. I wanted to display my feed subscriber count in a way that would match my site’s theme. I was tired of the vanilla feed-count display provided by FeedBurner – probably because you can find it on almost every other site these days (and I wanted something unique). So I got down to designing one…

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