Tag: KONFABULATOR

Yahoo! has launched an updated version of the Yahoo! Widget Engine and gallery. Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.5 has the same look and feel on your desktop as version 4.0, but there are some changes in the way widgets are created and organized. First, Yahoo! has retooled its online widget gallery to give you more information about what each widget does. Users now also have a quick view of the most ...

We've got the hot scoop on Yahoo spicy update to widgets; their newest release of Yahoo! Widgets 4. This version offers users and developers improved features and capabilities including a new Widget Dock, new and improved widgets, improved performance, streamlined installation, improved authoring tools and automatic updates. I recently had the opportunity to load up this new version and take it ...

With the launch of Microsoft's Windows Vista today, I have to say that I will not be installing it for awhile. Why? Simple reason: I want to see what works with the new operating system, what needs upgrading, and what totally bombs out on it. I utilize quite a few of Yahoo's widgets for my PC and was excited to learn today that the Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.1 and all of their over 3,700 widgets have ...

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 ...

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 ...