Yahoo! Widgets?
Recently I ran across an ad for Yahoo! Widgets. I’d actually never heard of them and was apparently in the dark. Not too hard to do considering the billions of web pages out there. So I clicked on the ad. I love a great mystery!
Anyway, I bravely downloaded and installed Yahoo! Widgets on my desktop. And I gotta say I like them. Widgets are little applications you can run on your desktop. For example, right now I have the weather (a very cool, 5 day weather forecasting tool with moon information), a small desktop picture frame with my pictures (with a new picture every 5 minutes), and a seasonal college basketball schedule / score reporter (letting me know what games are on and when.). So it’s pretty cool stuff.
There’s no charge for widgets and there are 1,000 to choose from. Others I have running are pictures of the beach to see what the surf is like (I live in Virginia Beach) and some monitors for internet access, computer resources, etc. I ahd the Homer Simpson widget, but after a few minutes of Homer’s audible antics, he got removed. Just don’t like being insulted every couple minutes by a cartoon character.
So, if you get a chance, I’d recommend checking it out… just search for Yahoo! Widgets…