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tnf wrote:I'd never heard of this before...now I'm going crazy with my widgets.

Widget is such a cool word :icon31:

o'dium wrote:

Mr.Magnetichead wrote:It's a shame you don't SHUT UP.

Oh yeah...I went there.

What, its a real problem. The weather one rocks, but i dont want to know that its sunnuy in florida, i want to know if my nipples are going to freeze off in this UK rain :icon33:

USB barometer/thermometer?

tnf wrote:I'd never heard of this before...now I'm going crazy with my widgets.

that best part is that it's free \o/

ok, break the news, how much of a pig is this?

this is cool, I found one that shows the local surfcams one after the other. Wish I had OS X at work.

Geebs wrote:The really wierd thing about this sort of 'ware is that the people who use it are mostly huge nerds who, under other circumstances, constantly bitch about anything using up system resources.

Nerds bitch about 'ware that takes up more system resources than needed for its function. A program like Word shouldn't take up that many resources... it's just a word processor! A media player shouldn't take up that many resources... it's purpose is to play music. That's why I prefer programs like foobar2000 & Media Player Classic over WMP10 or iTunes or Real Player; I want a program that plays music or a DVD and leaves it at that; I don't want extra eye candy or unnecessary features. This is what nerds become obsessive compulsive about.

I just installed konfabulator (awful name) and I like it, even though it takes up more system resouces than a more visually simple program would probably do. Widgets like the calendar and weather are very nice to have: they are functional and visually pleasing. They are also pretty minimalistic, which is a plus as they don't seem to clutter up the desktop. Connecting the 'to do' list with the calendar would be pretty cool... it could act as a sort of minimal and simple outlook program.

mjrpes wrote:

Geebs wrote:The really wierd thing about this sort of 'ware is that the people who use it are mostly huge nerds who, under other circumstances, constantly bitch about anything using up system resources.

Nerds bitch about 'ware that takes up more system resources than needed for its function. A program like Word shouldn't take up that many resources... it's just a word processor! A media player shouldn't take up that many resources... it's purpose is to play music. That's why I prefer programs like foobar2000 & Media Player Classic over WMP10 or iTunes or Real Player; I want a program that plays music or a DVD and leaves it at that; I don't want extra eye candy or unnecessary features. This is what nerds become obsessive compulsive about.

I just installed konfabulator (awful name) and I like it, even though it takes up more system resouces than a more visually simple program would probably do. Widgets like the calendar and weather are very nice to have: they are functional and visually pleasing. They are also pretty minimalistic, which is a plus as they don't seem to clutter up the desktop. Connecting the 'to do' list with the calendar would be pretty cool... it could act as a sort of minimal and simple outlook program.

thanks for that

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:ok, break the news, how much of a pig is this?

Not much from what I can tell, but my work box is a Xeon with 1.5 gigs of ram and my laptop has a gig

ajerara wrote:this is cool, I found one that shows the local surfcams one after the other. Wish I had OS X at work.

It runs on Windows and OS X. IT was originally Mac only, but when Apple ripped them off and released the Dashboard on Tiger, the Konfabulator people jumped ship and ported to Windows because they were charging for the product

mjrpes wrote:Connecting the 'to do' list with the calendar would be pretty cool... it could act as a sort of minimal and simple outlook program.

It connects to iCal.. I think that's left over from the OS X only days

i installed it and like it. i'll probably get bored of it in a few days and uninstall it. i keep my system very minimal, but i was bored so i decided to try it out.

I want something that I can keep a list of thinkings in, like Game Icons and names or something, that i can click to show me all of them then un-click again... Anything like this on there?

This would be great if you could force some of the widgets to be always on top. Otherwise it's just a cute little toy

the weather one does work for the UK, just type in 'city/town, UK' e.g. "London, UK" in the box.

Shmee wrote:This would be great if you could force some of the widgets to be always on top. Otherwise it's just a cute little toy

Erm, sir, you can do that. Right click on your widget and select "window" then chance "level of window"

Shmee wrote:This would be great if you could force some of the widgets to be always on top. Otherwise it's just a cute little toy

Ah, I see. Some obey the settings and some don't. Pity.

Ahh, nice it does do UK But i can only get as close as birmingham, i cant get shropshire... Oh well, thats still good!

Shmee wrote:

Shmee wrote:This would be great if you could force some of the widgets to be always on top. Otherwise it's just a cute little toy

Ah, I see. Some obey the settings and some don't. Pity.

Maybe on your computer which is made of turds.

o'dium wrote:

Shmee wrote:This would be great if you could force some of the widgets to be always on top. Otherwise it's just a cute little toy

Erm, sir, you can do that. Right click on your widget and select "window" then chance "level of window"

Yes I saw that. It seems the widgets don't obey the setting when place on top of the taskbar.

I tried using that for about 1 minute. Couldn't find any use what so ever for it...looks cool though.

When you grow up and buy stocks, you'll find a lot of use for it.

I should make a widget that informs the user of updated q3w threads. :icon26:

Anyone figure out how to change the city on the doppler radar widget?

nm, I found it. I was opening a different radar widget.

werldhed wrote:I should make a widget that informs the user of updated q3w threads. :icon26:

it would be pretty easy if q3w had an RSS feed.

i like the werewolf monitor for some reason. completely useless, but funny.