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Widget Watch: Widget Update

Tired of checking countless blogs and news sites just to find out whether one widget or another has been updated? Widget Update might be just what you need, as it can check up to four widget directories for new versions of all your widgets. Once it runs its check, Widget Update displays a list of the widgets that have new versions available, complete with which version is installed, what the updated version is and a link to one or more directories where you can get it.

This thing is pretty handy, especially if you're a widget user like me who has quite a few widgets installed, but not always running. Widget Update is available for free (and yes, it can check for its own updates) from DashboardWidgets.

Tired of checking countless blogs and news sites just to find out whether one widget or another has been updated? Widget Update might be...
 

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panasianbiz

I haven't tried this particular widget yet, but I hope it's not as ineffective as St3phen says. I do use several different widgets regularly and it would be nice to automatically check for updates.

July 17 2006 at 8:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen Alison

This widget (and I've been using it for a long, long time over many releases) rarely can find information on the vast majority of the widgets I use - despite the fact that I have all the widget sources enabled.

Having said that, it's useful for the few widgets for which it can find updates.

July 17 2006 at 7:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kevin

sorry

July 17 2006 at 6:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
adreas

vince, you're a jerk.

July 17 2006 at 4:40 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alain Meyer

Ohh! Nice find! I love this widget! Thanks.

July 17 2006 at 4:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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