Tag: YAHOOWIDGETENGINE

The Spring Box is a widget engine for the web and for the desktop that is just plain sprung (sorry, I grew up near Chicago, so I still know a little street slang). The product is in beta, so you know it is cool like all the other roller-shoe wearing kids, but this also means there are not a lot of widgets available for consumption just yet. There is an API for developers that you can use ...

This one's for geology geeks and gelatin fans only: Wiglet is a great little desktop widget for Yahoo! Widget Engine. It looks like a green Jell-o mold, and when USGS reports an earthquake it will jiggle with a velocity corresponding to the magnitude of the earthquake. When Wiglet reports an earthquake, you can click on it to see a map of the affected area. How cool is that? Oh, and it's free. ...

Yahoo!'s Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) is conspicuously missing any sort of "most popular widgets" list, so Jon Aquino build his own. His Ning-powered Most Downloaded Konfabulator Widgets page ranks the top 500 widgets in order of downloads along with ratings, descriptions, and so on. Currently topping the list are the mini CPU, Winamp Remote, and World Clock Pro widgets. [Via ...