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Yahoo Widget Engine - 4.5.2

Add standalone widgets that provide a variety of features and content.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.5.2
Release Date:	2008-08-13
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	6,423
Downloads (all versions):	166,440

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Product Description:

The Yahoo! Widget Engine (formerly known as 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.

What sets Yahoo! Widget Engine apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of today's advanced graphics. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Windows XP and Mac OS X.

The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.

For the "skinning" crowd, Yahoo! Widget Engine is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

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Computer says no. - Version: 4.5, 11/29/2007 05:20PM PST

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mannyloupas

Too much of a CPU hog for me. Yahoo too much like Microbloat in its invasiveness. Next please.

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Computer says no.

Bad, Bad, Bad - Version: 4.0.5, 8/2/2007 04:54PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

carsurf

This latest version with the strip consumes 40-50 per cent of my CPU activity continuously and keeps my hard drive spinning 70 per cent of the time. A bad bummer.

Last Nail in the Coffin - Version: 4.0.3, 7/12/2007 11:46AM PST

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Bill Dawson

Yahoo has finally driven the last nail in the coffin for Konfabulator with its new Weather widget.

I have been using Konfabulator since its inception and as Yahoo has "added functionality" it has only succeeded in overloading and bloating the memory footprint. I have slowly stopped using my favorite widgets one by one.

The only widget I had left on my desktop was Weather. And now with the new [unwarented / unwanted] interface I have turned off Yahoo Widget Engine (bad name too) completely and removed it from my startup items.

Why does Yahoo have to ruin everything they touch?