Widgets Now Available for Windows
They're fun, stylish, useful and 100% free! Bring life to your desktop with fun Konfabulator Widgets. These little guys hang out on your screen and give you quick, easy access to favorite content. You can even change their style to match yours. Visit the Widget Gallery with more than 1,000 cool Widgets to choose from.
What is It?
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.Konfabulator was once a superb Mac program that offered a truly unique computing experience. Those days are no more, because Konfabulator is now available on the Windows OS as well, as a result of Yahoo’s recent purchase.
For those who don't know what it is, Konfabulator runs widgets, which you can download for free. Widgets are tiny programs that run on your desktop. For an example, check out the screenshot below. I have widgets telling me the weather, my WiFi signal, the time, etc. It really is just the tip of the iceberg, though.One of my favorites displays my Netflix movies due to ship to me. Each widget takes a little chunk of memory, so be careful not to fill up your desktop with these little gems.See more at: http://widgets.yahoo.com/