Widgets here, get yourself some widgets!

OK, the concept is not exactly knew, nor is it rocket science. It is, however, one of the coolest things to play around with. Basically, as I understand it, the Konfabulator is a platform on which the various widgets run. Essentially mini-apps within a large app performing very specific duties in a small coded frame. There is an abundance of different widgets available and the best thing is that they are all free.

Get the weather, a game of MahJongg, rotating traffic cams on the 401, laptop battery status, an analog clockface and more all right on your desktop. They can always sit on top or sit in the background, and the opacity levels can be adjusted as well so that they do not intrude on your real work.

I have been running it for a couple of weeks now and it has yet to crash my system even though I immediately threw on a dozen or so widgets to run at once. Give it a try and see.

Enjoy.

Editor's NOTE: I did a bad thing, and a common mistake amongst the general populace. I referred to the Konfabulator and the widgets as being free. They are in fact shareware, and should you get great use out of the product, it is a small price of $25 to buy it and support the developers. It helps them pay the bills and continue to code excellent products. I'll be posting another great site of useful programs shortly.


Konfabulator!