If you spend as much time on the Linux desktop as I do, having small applets available for specific tasks can make your life that much easier. If you use the KDE 4.x desktop you will be familiar with Widgets. These are very handy, but are only available to KDE. For the GNOME users there [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 29th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Add Screenlets to make your Linux desktop more useful
Dressing your Mac up for Christmas
Whilst I realise this website has a Linux and Windows-focus, I am (for better or for worse) a OS X user. As Christmas approaches, houses and offices are often adorned with decorations and there is no reason a Mac can’t be too.
In Northern England, we have been ‘fortunate’ enough to have had quite a bit [...]
Yahoo Widget Position Restorer
Widgets, gadgets are little applications that are running on the desktop. Prominent examples are the gadgets that can be added to the Windows Vista sidebar or Yahoo Widgets. I never found a reason to use any of those little applications on my system but apparently some users really like that feature.
There is however a problem [...]
Klipfolio a Customizable Dashboard
I’m not a huge fan of dashboards that take up valuable space on the monitor and I dislike the Windows Vista Sidebar mainly because of its inflexibility and resource consumption. Klipfolio on the other hand is a customizable dashboard for Windows that uses less system resources and provides better options than the Windows Vista sidebar.
The [...]
Pimp up your desktop with Avedesk
Avedesk was mentioned on one of my favorite websites Donation Coder and it sounded so incredible that I had to give it a try immediately. One could say that Avedesk adds widgets to your desktop, not the kind of useless widgets like the clock in Windows Vista. I’m talking about widgets that look great and provide enough functionality to justify their presence on the desktop.
Widgetize you website with Yourminis
Have you ever wanted to improve your website by adding widgets that would provide some kind of interesting or important information about local weather, time, events, news or whatever else that might benefit your website without the need to write the code yourself or make a third-party script work on your own site?
Get a free RSS widget for your site
This one is for those of you, who have a website and would like to display the contents of a RSS feed on that website. It does not really matter if you want to display your own feeds on a different part of your blog or feeds from other websites. FeedFlash is a nice service that takes feed urls and places them in a nice looking and scrollable widget that can be embedded into websites.
