Yahoo Widgets, what is on your desktop?

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timosyy

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I believe Konfab wasn't free until Yahoo bought it. I remember the posts about it when they did, and made it a free product. Yahoo then kept the name as "Konfabulator" for a while, changing it to "Yahoo Widgets" only in the last month or so.
 

Bullhonkie

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Konfabulator was technically shareware I think. It was free for the first 30 days or so and then it'd give you periodic nag popups to register it after that IIRC.
 

PhoenixOrion

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so....how's the memory usage with widget engine?

bloatware or minimal?

by the way, i only use local weather and traveler's friend (5 world clocks).
 

grrl

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I just use one of the world clock things, the one with 3 time zones.

IIRC, Konfabulator was always free and nagless.

The download is 11 megs because it contains 5 megs of widgets and another 4.5 megs in a folder called UnixUtils. The program itself is only 1.6 megs.

Even so, I may just stick with the older Konfabulator.



 

ZoomStop

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bah, always found wigits (Konfabulator/Yahoo) to all look a bit too cheesy. CoolMon is a great way to go if you just need sys-info.

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VistaXP msstyle, objectbar, & coolmon.
 

trmiv

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I don't use yahoo widgets at home, but at work with dual flat panels, I love it! I keep all my widgets on my second screen so I can see them at a glance. I have a to-do list, digital clock, weather, wired news, fox news, espn news, and a CPU/Memory guage.