Ability to select nodes to be featured in the slider (Already posted for previous version)

Hi,
This module is really useful but it lack a premium functionality: It's the ability to display nodes by category or by selection.
Without that We are obliged to create a new content type for each particular category of nodes we want to slide.
In this post http://drupal.org/node/359758 they tried to answer but it seems that the patch posted there cannot be applied to the actual version
Thanks