Widgets?

[Duke{CLR}]

I was wondering if anyone here uses Widgets. If so what do you use them for?

[Bliss]

What's a widget? The only Widget I know is from an old cartoonshow

[dirtyoldgoat]

Makes me think of Spacely's Sprockets from the Jetsons...

[Cain]

[Duke{CLR}]

They are little apps that show up on your desktop. There are thousands of them. They are along the right side of my desktop.

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[ViTO]

http://www.widgetgallery.com/

[nikaios]

I used to use a few in Konfabulator (kill that thing before you run BF2 though... it'll impact its performance).

I used to use a little weather widget, a to do list, and a calendar that displayed my personal calendar on our Exchange server.

[Rand{CLR}]

I looked at the page once just out of curiosity and because I want to know what's out there tech-wise and not lose touch as I age (unlike some others here :P ), but I didn't get any. I don't like desktop clutter, and I had a kind of proto-widget some spyware thing gave me (weatherbug), and didn't really like it.

Same sort of deal with RSS feeds. I played around with them and got a reader, but I never use it.

-Rand

[TheBeatenPath]

I only use two. One is a weather forcast and the other is a dictionary.

[paceman]

I use the weather and the Wireless widgets. I've been reading up on designing them. I'm interested in making an RSS widget.

[Duke{CLR}]

I downloaded the manual yesterday and Its like reading Chinese to me.

[paceman]

XML is not the most straight forward language. And java script is not a lot better, but at least java script looks like real code.

Why can't I write these things in COBOL!?!?!

[Cliff-Jeff]

idk what everyones talking about... the only knowledge of Widgets i have are from Shop class when we made them out of wood...

[n0odle]

lol i download and installed the 108:00 timer form the show Lost

[AmazingRedd]

i never heard of yahoo widgets?