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Widget Watch: Digg Search Widget

by Scott McNulty (Apr 27th, 2006)

Digg is everyone's favorite social news site (with a decided focus on all things tech). With all the things that get 'dugg' it is hard to keep up, and that's where the Digg Search Widget (for Yahoo! Widget Engine) comes in. The widget can search a number of different Digg categories and can display ...

Yahoo! Widgets Engine 3.1 available

by Dave Caolo (Apr 13th, 2006)

Earlier this week, Yahoo! released version 3.1 of the Yahoo! Widgets Engine (formerly Konfabulator). As you may remember, Konfabulator (which was purchased by Yahoo! in December of last year) was the first application to bring "widgets" to our Macs. Changes in version 3.1 include: ...

Widget Watch: Retrograde3

by Dave Caolo (Mar 30th, 2006)

I know what you're going to say already. "The last thing we need is another clock widget!" While I'm inclined to agree, I will say this: Retrograde3 is one cool clock. It's a Yahoo! Widgets Engine widget that displays the time, date and phase of the moon. You can change the clock's color as well as ...

Opera to include its own widgets

by Dave Caolo (Feb 7th, 2006)

Forget podcast overload, I'm suffering from widget overload. There are Konfabulator widgets (now called Yahoo! Widgets Engine) and Apple Dashboard widgets. Microsoft will included "gadgets" with Vista, KDE will soon support Dashboard widgets and a soon-to-be-released version of the Opera ...

Widget Watch: Frylock

by Dave Caolo (Jan 10th, 2006)

Today's widget is only 90% useless. Frylock is a Konfabulator Yahoo! Widgets Engine widget that floats your favorite box of animated French fries around your desktop in that unique, Frylock fashion. You can even configure it to launch the application of your choice when double-clicked. See? It's ...