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    Tuesday, August 2


    Because Brett seems so desperate, despite seeing me in the morning to go over some of his copy, here are some screenshots of my widgets:



    and hit F8 and



    What happened? Why is this a big deal? What is a widget? Well, in reverse order, a widget is a small application that runs, usually constantly, on your desktop. Look at the first pic - do you see the tiny sun in the lower right corner? Or the yellow square that looks like a post-it note? Well, those are widgets, and they are always there. Usually things like that - the weather, or an RSS reader, a system monitor, or a calendar. Second question - well widgets are what made me most jealous of Apple's newest operating system, Tiger. There is other neat stuff in Tiger, so I'm not dissing it, but man was I jealous of Brett's dashboard (how widgets made it into mainstream Mac life). But there was a predecessor to dashboard, called Konfabulator. It cost cash, and was meant for Macs in the first place. It caught the attention of Mac, but apparently also caught the attention of Yahoo. And Yahoo bought it, made it free, and made certain it could run on PC's. Go to Yahoo! Widgets (formerly known as Konfabulator) and check it out. Over 600 widgets for the Windows platform. And I'm sure some for Apple. But also a bright future.
     posted by Duncan @ 10:30 PM  



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