Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Widgets
For those of us out there who, for whatever reason, are using Microsoft Windows for all or part of the daily grind, I wanted to bring this to the forefront.
A while ago, Apple introduced it's new operating system version 10.4 (Tiger), which included, among many other things, a new feature they called 'Dashboard'. Dashboard allows you to run little applets or 'widgets' - small programs that usually only do one thing, but do it well, and allows you to quickly (with one glance) see what's up with the world via RSS aggregators, weather watchers, stock tickers, webcams, world clocks, etc.
A previously existing product called Konfabulator was providing a very similar feature set prior to Tiger's introduction.
Since Tiger was introduced, Konfabulator was sold to Yahoo! and Yahoo! is now giving it away!
I use it all the time and I love it. My favourite widget is a webcam viewer for SleepyChinchila.com.
A while ago, Apple introduced it's new operating system version 10.4 (Tiger), which included, among many other things, a new feature they called 'Dashboard'. Dashboard allows you to run little applets or 'widgets' - small programs that usually only do one thing, but do it well, and allows you to quickly (with one glance) see what's up with the world via RSS aggregators, weather watchers, stock tickers, webcams, world clocks, etc.
A previously existing product called Konfabulator was providing a very similar feature set prior to Tiger's introduction.
Since Tiger was introduced, Konfabulator was sold to Yahoo! and Yahoo! is now giving it away!
I use it all the time and I love it. My favourite widget is a webcam viewer for SleepyChinchila.com.
