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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - Konfabulator (OS X) coming to Windows |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get.  Level: 73  Posts: 716/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Apparently Konfabulator, a program that allows you to put "widgets" on your desktop with things like time, weather, etc, will be coming to Windows (I thought Stardock's Object Desktop did the same thing, but anyways) Although apparently Longhorn's Sidebar will do a lot of what Konfabulator is currently doing, is anybody on Windows interested in a Konfabulator type program? Also, the next version of OS X (Tiger) will have Dashboard, which is also Konfabulator-like. There is some speculation that Apple are stealing Konfabulator's idea -- however mini "Widget" style applications have been available on Macintoshes since 1984, so maybe it's Konfabulator stealing Apple's idea!  Does anybody here with OS X use Konfabulator? Would anybody in Windows be interested in using sonething like it? For a screenie of Konfabulator (on my desktop), look here: Konfabulator on OS X I am using the following Widgets: Mini weather, AirPort Signal, Mini Digital Clock and CPU Portal. |
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FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 830/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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I think KDE already has stuff like that.  I like it. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 717/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Yeah, I've heard KDE has stuff like that too. Konfabulator's okay, it reminds me a bit of the old stuff on the Original Mac, but shinier. I remember there was a sliding puzzle on the original Mac that I liked.  So far, I like my weather widget the best |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5842/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Hmm, eye candy I say. Probably something I would consider testing of course.  But then the desktop is not visible very often on my desktop... I tend to use mIRC or the web browser as backround.  |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 718/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Not sure about Stardock's thingie, but Konfabulator sits above applications if I want it to. My weather thing shows partially above Firefox. It says it's 10 degrees celsius.. I think you can stick things to the desktop, or have them float, or have them above applications |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143  Posts: 4892/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Holy crap, that looks really amazing... I |
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Kitten Yiffer Purple wand Furry moderator Vivent l'exp����¯�¿�½������©rience de signalisation d'amusement, ou bien ! Level: 135 Posts: 5850/11162 EXP: 28824106 For next: 510899 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 4 min. |
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Originally posted by TaraleOk, if you can have it above applications too I look into it. Hell, there is always some unused space in the titlebar whenever I surf. I usually place Winamp there but a nice clock or some weather watcher. :O And well, my desktop is really bland too so... x) (edited by Kitten Yiffer on 11-06-04 12:24 PM) |
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Ran-chan Moldorm eek, when are they going to stop growing... Level: 143 Posts: 4907/12781 EXP: 35293588 For next: 538220 Since: 03-15-04 From: Nerima District, Tokyo - Japan Since last post: 12 hours Last activity: 12 hours |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 719/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Konfabulator is not spyware, and as far as I know, neither is Stardock's program. But there ARE plenty of spyware things out there.... just this isn't one of them. |
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HyperLamer <||bass> and this was the soloution i thought of that was guarinteed to piss off the greatest amount of people Sesshomaru Tamaranian Level: 118 Posts: 1995/8210 EXP: 18171887 For next: 211027 Since: 03-15-04 From: Canada, w00t! LOL FAD Since last post: 2 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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I imagine weather feeds are expensive, so a lot of programs probably rely on spyware to pay for them.  Anyway, it's a cool idea, but Windows can already do it. Just use an HTML file with a BG image as the desktop. |
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dan Snap Dragon Level: 43  Posts: 226/782 EXP: 534516 For next: 30530 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 20 hours Last activity: 14 hours |
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| Hopefully they fix the slow speed (possibly not, due to it using JavaScript for powering the widgets), and memory leaks for the Windows version. I think there's a weather extension available for Firefox too. It's free too. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 728/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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Originally posted by HyperHacker It can only PARTIALLY do it. Again, this isn't limited to your Desktop only, I can float widgets or stick them on top of applications too. (I just didn't post a screenshot of that, cause then I'd need to show you my applications...) As for the slow speed, I find Konfabulator fine on my Mac, but it did have one REALLY scary crash that I didn't like. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 4988/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Interesting... So basically it's a program that offers all the functions that spyware programs do but WITHOUT the spyware and everything is classified as a "widget". ...Yeah, I'll check it out. The word "widget' is cool anyways. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 732/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Wasn't "Widget" a character in Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers? Or was it something else? {/offtopic} Yeah, they're pretty cool. Although I have to admit, I'm REALLY looking forward to Apple's Dashboard |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69  Posts: 1214/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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A-hoy-hoy. I started another thread on this in Craziness Domain, and with a little different focus. Noone deemed it appropriate - and by noone I mean Legion, he's not even staff you know  - so I took the business here despite this being a Help forum by definition (forum description). Oh well. Has anyone here actually tried it? |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 734/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| I now want a Widget that looks like Widget from Rescue Rangers. In regards to your other thread, an ACS widget would be kinda cool. And distracting... |
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Pegasus Bit Level: 26  Posts: 218/251 EXP: 97188 For next: 5087 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 337 days Last activity: 320 days |
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Originally posted by Tarale It was Gadget actually if anyone needed to know.  Anyway, I downloaded a copy of Konfabulator and I must say that the weather widget is quite impressive, but one thing about Konfabulator bothers me though, it installs the widgets into it's own folder in the (abandoned) My Documents folder and I already have unregistered mydocs.dll from my Windows OS, very strange indeed. Pretty handy weather widget though. |
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Tarale I'm not under the alfluence of incohol like some thinkle peop I am. It's just the drunker I sit here the longer I get. Level: 73 Posts: 735/2720 EXP: 3458036 For next: 27832 Since: 03-18-04 From: Adelaide, Australia Since last post: 4 hours Last activity: 2 hours |
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| Okay, I want a Gadget Widget then. Eh, I was close. I think Gadgets are what Dashboard will call them (btw, Apple had the idea first, as early as 1984, so don't accuse them of stealing Konfabulator's idea...) I would like to see an ACS Widget though. One that lets you know roughly where you are in the ACS for the day, in real time. Make it green, like Colleen's ACS posts |
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Jesper Busy, busy, busy. Level: 69 Posts: 1215/2390 EXP: 2856000 For next: 13743 Since: 03-15-04 From: Sweden. Since last post: 176 days Last activity: 79 days |
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Originally posted by PegasusIt tries to do it the standard way, and the standard way these days is the My Documents folder and subfolders, like it or not.Originally posted by Tarale I also changed the thread title - there's no longer a question mark at the end of the title as there is no doubt about Konfabulator coming to Windows (nor has it been - it was part of the original intent). |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 5009/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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| Any way to move My Documents to D:\ if you have a 10 GB C: partition and a 100 GB D: one, Jesper? (...Trust me, I hate having stuff automatically save in C:\My Documents. No love for those who partition.  )Hope to try it out once my huge-ass WoW Beta download finishes. |
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