Widgets are small programs that add their small windows to your desktop and can be used from there. Widgets come in all colors and forms and you could categorize them the following way:
- Informational Widgets – Widgets that display a limited amount of information like weather reports or rss feeds.
- Entertainment Widgets – Games, movies, music and Pictures for example.
- Programs – Widgets that offer search functionality for instance fall in this category.
The first thing you will have to do is download the Yahoo Widget Engine to your system. Once this is done you can choose from thousands of widgets and select the once that look interesting to you. To make it a little bit easier I decided to post my top 10 widgets today, maybe you like some of them as well and start using them after you’ve read this article.
Displays a list of various RSS feeds from digg.com.
What can I say, Sudoku is lots of fun and this Widget delivers it right to my desktop.
Displays lots of useful system information such as disk, cpu and memory usage, battery life, wifi signal and more.
Shortcuts, all sorted in this nice little widget. Never again a cluttered desktop..
Displays your google adsense income.
Simple one liner, add a search term, without opening a browser first.
Add tasks and notes to this widget.
Explore the 500 most interesting photos of the day at flickr.
Better than the Calculator that comes with Windows.
Just enter a word and if it is not know it suggests words.
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[...] For Windows there are different tools to have widgets on your desktop. There are for example Yahoo! Widgets, or Samurize For Linux there is also a tool available to do this, and it’s called gDesklets. [...]
Top stuff! Thanks!
Just curious, are you aware of the scientific mode of the windows calculator?
yes I’am Brian
To clarify things Brian, with better I ment accessible. I don’t have to start if whenever I need it..
I may definitley have to hit up the Sudoku. Why not waste my life away doing those tricky little number puzzles on the computer as well?
How much system resources does yahoo wigets use as compared to google desktop?
Awesome thanks