He he he he...
Widgets gone wild

http://www.pnw4runners.com/temp/widgets.jpg

This is cool, I have been meaning to download this for a very long time, every since they were formally known as Konfabulator or something like that until Yahoo bought them out.

Here is the URL in case you do not have it.
http://widgets.yahoo.com/

What is cool after you setup the ones you like, they will stay the next time you give your PC the boot.

I am just running a few of the stock ones for now.
The one on the bottom is an iTunes one, kind of useless since you can do the same with iTunes, and iTunes must be running anyways.
That one will be shut down.

The ones I will find the most useful though will be the Outlook Calendar and the weather one.
The rest will go.

Has anyone found some pretty good ones on their site that would be very useful?

PS, I had to use Churnd's pic too for a desktop background for another weekend desktop thread on another forum.

 

I found widgets to be pretty lame, they do things that other things already do and just clutter the desktop imo....

to their credit they used a heck of a lot less resources than other similar things....

I would totoally install them again if someoen made a gaim widget

 

i have OS X 10.4 which came with dashboard which was the first real big implement of widgets...i HARDLY ever use them

 

I don't like the way OS X implements widgets, having to go in and out of Dashboard to use 'em. I wanna be able to see 'em when using the desktop too, without having to hit F12 every time. :pat:

 

That's probably why us Mac users don't use 'em

 

Corey - what weather applet is that?

 

Mike, just DL the package in my first link.
That weather app comes with the Widgets.
A total of 20 come preinstalled, and you have the choice of the ones you want to run by right clicking the icon in your sys tray by your clock.

By the way, if you dig the background, I found it in a link in a desktop thread on the UT 2004 forum I use.
Here is the link, and the zip file contains 3 sizes.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/29644952/

 

I've been using them for about a month now. I use the calender and the weather also. I always turn off the background on the widgets so they look more transparent. On my laptop I use the wireless strenght and battery meters.
I also like the currency exchanges and NHL scores.

I am not to concerned with the recource and memory usage, I didn't buy the computer just to idle along. It might as well work for the money I paid for it.
It isn't noticable on my P4 3.0Ghz (1 Gig ram). My laptop is a P4 2.4 (512MB) and on that on I only notice on boot up. Takes a bit before everything is loaded, but usually I just close the lid and it will just go to sleep. I don't boot it up to often, so normally it doesn't affect the speed of the computer either.

 

I love these things!!

Here's my top picks:

Always up:
Calendar
Widget Launcher (minimized)
Weather
Dayplanner

Activated thru the launcher when I need or want them:
Digital Clock
Google Adsense Monitor
Picture Frame
Pittsburgh Traffic
RSS_News_Reader (YT and others)
Sirius Satellite Radio (If you have it in your car this is free)
Universal Shipment Tracker (Tracks multiple shipments via UPS, Fedex, DHL, Purolator, USPS)
What's On TV (Customizable TV guide with alarms)
WiFi Signal

Thanks again Corey!!