sparx 0 Report post Posted December 13, 2005 Yahoo recently acquired and has developed the code behind Konfabulator. The new system is called Yahoo! Widgets and is essentially a javasript engine that allows the user to run small apps. What's different and cool about this is the sheer number of widgets (small applications which do a wide range of things). Widgets are more usually placed on a user's desktop so they're constantly in view. Some of the more popular widgets include jazzy looking clocks and calendars, news and stock tickers, panels that show system resources and much much more. There are also RSS feed readers that hover, weather displays that update at a set frequency, email checkers, panels that display your contacts or your Outlook front page, panels to show the Wi-FI strength, currency converters etc. Thousands of widgets created by users are available for free. It's entirely up to you - the end user to customize the desktop that you always wanted. The Yahoo! Widgets system is supposedly better than the other systems like ObjectDock because they interface with the graphics sub-system in a much better way leading to better looking eye-candy. The system is available for both Windows and Macintosh systems. Be warned though, that jazzing up one's desktop with Yahoo!Widgets will lead to a hit in your overall computing performance because each widget is run like an application. The more widgets you have, the more system resources are used. Best to find the correct balance between the eye-candy and the system resources at your disposal. Yahoo specified system requirements: * Windows XP with Service Pack 1 installed or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 installed, or newer, or Mac OS X 10.3 or newer. * A connection to the Internet. * 512 megabytes of RAM is recommended. * Lots of spare time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jedipi 0 Report post Posted December 14, 2005 It has online install version only.I got "memory can not be read" error when I was installing it.I do not know if it is my problem. Can someone verify??and there is a optional "Yahoo Central" come with it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jguy101 0 Report post Posted December 14, 2005 Ooh....I had Konfabulator on my PC a while ago, but didin't fell like paying for than twenty dollars, so I got rid of it. It's free now, so this'll be great! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sarah81 0 Report post Posted January 16, 2006 Be warned though, that jazzing up one's desktop with Yahoo!Widgets will lead to a hit in your overall computing performance because each widget is run like an application. The more widgets you have, the more system resources are used. Best to find the correct balance between the eye-candy and the system resources at your disposal. 1064332669[/snapback] I've never really liked the extra junk Yahoo! pushes on me every time I go near their Web site. Yahoo Messenger's the only big exception to things that I'll download because, as you say here, the things are SLOOOOOOOOOOOOW. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
