Friday, October 07, 2005

Get Konfabulator NOW!

I'm just going to come out and say that I'm not a big fan of Yahoo! I haven't used their search bot in years, and I've always found their services to be lacking. Their chat program looks nicer, their update to mail looks ace, and buying out Flickr and Konfabulator was a great move indeed. Konfabulator is anything you want it to be. It's a Windows and Mac OS X program that runs in the background, which displays widgets that provide you with information that you want to see. These widgets can sit on your desktop, or you can set it up so that they're hidden until you hit the magic button that calls them all to the screen. (Think Mac OS X's Dashboard, but they don't zip-zoom in and it came out years after Konfabulator did.) Now, there are a lot of usful widgets out there, and there are a lot of widgets that are the same but with a different color scheme. I mean, come on, how many seperate RSS readers do you need? So, I've made a little list of the widgets that I use. Wunder Radar - shows current radar with images from www.wunderground.com TachClock - displays the time with a tachometer look Sun Clock - shows which part of the world is in light or darkness Dictionary CPU Meter People Finder Showtime - displays showtimes from MovieTickets.com I hope you have a big monitor!

1 Comments:

At 10/10/2005 04:54:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'll only get it when they come up with a radar widget that tracks Ben and Dewey's current location. It would work seamlessly with the RFID chips I implanted into their necks when they were passed out last week at the Furry/Plushie party.

 

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