Konfabulator is an application which allows you to run widgets on your desktop. Not only is it free, thanks to a recent aquisition by Yahoo, but it works on both platforms allowing Windows users to wallow in widget bliss.
Originally published August 24, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
Thanks to the Amnesty WIdget Browser, widgets are now free from the dark and isolated Dashboard environment and can live directly on the desktop.
Using Amnesty, widgets can be accessed from the menu bar and once on the desktop, they behave like any other desktop window with additional customization options. The WordPress and php.net search widget are now permanent fixtures on my desktop, and the CSS Ref and ColorSafe widgets (which come in handy when doing web development work) are just a click a way.
Originally published July 7, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
This is my first post from the WordPress Dashboard widget. I also just set up the Google Maps widget and the Marquee widget which displays local showtimes.
I must admit, I haven’t used the widgets as much as I intially thought I would. This is partly because I already have some of the functionality offered by the widgets in my Firefox search toolbar - it’s a lot easier to search Wikipeadia from within the browser than to toggle back and forth between the browser and the dashboard. However, given how easy some of these widgets are to configure and access, I can see myself using them a lot more for applications where they decrease the number of steps involved. This is especially true in the case of the Marquee and Wordpress widgets as now I have one-click access to view showtimes and post to my blog.
Originally published June 14, 2005 in the Amy@MEdTech blog.
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