what desktop calendar/clock/weather program uses the least memory?

[TheChort]

Looking for one of those programs that puts a clock and the weather on my desktop.

I tried Google Desktop, but I couldn't customize it quite the way I wanted, and it was using like 30+megs of memory.

I'm also using Objectdock, but the calendar/weather feature on it isn't too useful.
my desktop w/ Objectdock

 

[TheChort]

anybody?

 

[Rottie]

Have you tried Yahoo Widgets?

 

[Tarrant64]

I've heard some good things about Yahoo Widgets, haven't used it myself though.

Google Desktop was fine until 1) it really did take up a lot of memory for just a clock and weather widget, 2) memory leaks and would crash 1-2 times a day for no reason, 3) often the configurations I setup wouldn't "stick" and I'd have to reset them every couple of weeks.

I think it was just my personal bad experience as other users I know of don't have the problem(except with the memory being too much).

 

[corkyg]

I really like this one because it is so customizable.

1st Clock

 

[TheChort]

didn't know about yahoo widgets, I'll give it a shot

I'm looking for something to act like the mac widgets program (ie, free floating, transparent, and customizable)

 

[TheChort]

I'm giving yahoo widgets a shot right now. It looks pretty good. Even though it also uses a lot of memory, it's basically what I wanted. (at least I've got 2 more gigs of ram coming in the mail )
new desktop

 

[Rottie]

Your desktop pix looks nice...I didn't know about Yahoo widget takes a lot of memory.

I am using desktop calender like this one Rainlendar

 

[Markbnj]

I have been using Yahoo widgets (Konfabulator) for years now. It's very stable, and I'm a big fan. I wouldn't call its memory usage a problem in today's machines, but it isn't exactly lean and mean. It runs each widget in a separate process, and right now on my box with four full-time widgets it is using about 55 megs.

 

[Rottie]

55 megs? that seems a lot to me.

 

[TheChort]

ok great, I can't delete the Widgets setup app. Windows keeps giving me the error that it is being used by another program. I tried closing Widgets, but it didn't make a difference.

Did anyone else have this problem?

 

[velillen]

I've been using one called Desktop Sidebar for awhile now. Rather liking it and it doesnt use a lot of memory. you can find it at http://www.desktopsidebar.com/

There's quite a few plugins for it to do whatever you want. Right now i have the RSS feed (with google and cnn news feeds) a notes thing, recycle bin plugin, weather, and a performance plugin (as well as system uptime plugin) and it is only using 10 megs max. Right now its going form 6-7megs. (if your curious it is also using about 50megs of VM)