Widgets

"Yesterday Yahoo announced that it has scooped up Konfabulator. The most immediate effect is that the ‘pro’ version of Konfabulator is now free!...

Konfabulator is a program that emulates for windows quite nicely the widget functionality found in Mac OS X Tiger. While the two systems are not compatible with each other, the end result is the same. You download small ‘widgets’ which display on your desktop.

I just have four simple ones - weather, a ‘to do’ list, a Flickr photo uploader, and a CPU usage monitor....

On a side note, how cool would a ’search the library’ widget be?" [Hidden Peanuts]

I love the idea of a "search the library" widget. Let's take it a step further, though, and add one that shows what I have checked out and when it's due. Oh, and how about a box for my library's virtual reference or IM service? A total library widget package like this would rock hard! Put yourself in as many patron spaces as possible (desktop, toolbar, aggregator, cell phone, etc.).