Cool Widgets 1-2-3

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ClustrMaps

ClustrMaps - Hit counter map widget and tracker
shows locations of all visitors to any site - free

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Clearspring

Spurs fans now have a widget

San Antonio Spurs have partnered with Clearspring to bring you the ‘Spurs Team Widget’

With this widget you can watch news and highlight videos, catch scores and current standings and even buy tickets. Clearspring creates awesome widgets with a whole host of ‘One Click’ add options to your favorite blog or social profile pages.The widget is viral and you can grab the embed code right from the widget itself.

Myspace users who are Spurs fans will be happy too. The Spurs widget works there as well.

Yahoo! Messenger - Chat, Instant message, SMS, PC Calls and More

A good 'ole favorite you can't be without is a great instant messenger. I've used many in the past but I have actually found Yahoo's IM bearable when it comes to interuptting my work online. A simple little beep let's me know I have new Gmail(yes and Ymail) and I can quickly respond to twitter following or other blo discussion's I might be involved in.This desktop widget is a no-brainer.

Widgetbox › Full Size Synth Piano Widget

This fun widget from Widgetbox let's you experiment with a real keyboard and synthesizing features all from your flash desktop! Very cool.

Some of the cool widgets I use personally can be found at MyFlashPlayer.A free account and an email is all you need for free customizable flash player widgets.Music soundtracks,videos,and more.....

http://myflashfetish.com

Widgetbox › Twitter Widget

The Twitter Widget is a great way to connect to your audience through social media networking sites.Post This widget on your website and easily connect your readers to your widget posts or have them follow you.Tons of great reviews and comments...a must have for the social media guru.

Green Clock - Yahoo! Widgets

"Within the world of desktop Widgets there are several choices.

* Apple Dashboard
* Microsoft Windows Vista Sidebar
* Google Desktop Gadgets
* Yahoo! Widgets (Konfabulator)"

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Yahoo Widgets Blog

Why choose a desktop Widget?

The advantages of a desktop Widget over a web Widget include:

* Lives outside of the browser
* Access to local resources
* Potential for offline use & background downloading
* Greater interaction with the rest of the system through standard desktop interaction.

Desktop Widgets blur the line between the web and the desktop by pulling the content out of the browser and integrating it into your desktop."

Yahoo! Widgets - Blog: "So, which Widget platform should you use?.

The simple answer to that question is “it depends”.

What are you trying to accomplish? How much (or little) power do you need? Will it be a web-only Widget, or will it run on the desktop? Do you have existing code you want (or need) to reuse? All of these factors can influence your decision."

Yahoo! Widgets - Blog: "First, let’s address web Widgets

There are two major categories of Widgets: web Widgets and desktop Widgets. Web Widgets run inside a web page and are also known as “modules” or “badges”. Web Widgets allow anyone to create their own website “mash-ups” by embedding content from one site into a page on another site. These types of Widgets are completely based on browser technologies — HTML, Flash, etc. And while they have been around in various forms for a while, the use of the term “Widget” to refer to these web page modules is relatively new. Widget has (at least since Konfabulator’s introduction) conventionally meant a desktop-based mini-application that shows discrete information, often connected to the Internet. And, it is these types of Widgets that I want to delve into more today. So, if what you want to create is something that can be embedded in a personalized homepage, profile or blog, then you can probably stop reading now."

MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/dcuo

Interactive Bobblehead Widget/completely customizable. From DC Universe/Sony Entertainment.

Flickr photo widget on Yahoo! Widget Engine

To those readers who visit I am informing you that I was not happy at all with the standard layout I started this blog with a few weeks ago.I think this new template compliments the goofy gadget age we live in.Please bear with me as I make changes to the site in the next few days-things may appear different randomly but I will hasten the process with a vat of coffee tonight.

Mac OS Widget for screenshot applications.

Nokia Mobile widget applications in many different graphics,styles,and uses.

This Sedoku desktop widget from Macintosh should keep you busy for hours with the addicting mini-game.

Visit http://sedokufun.com

The Sudoku Fun Widget

Version 1.2 is now available with improved features.

Enables numeric keypad
Version 1.1

Saves progress
Checks for duplicate entries
Use cursor keys to navigate
Fixed enter key issue

This shot of a desktop equipped with 3 seperate widgets shows that widgets are not just for webpage design and HTML read pages,but they are also for handy applications while offline.

Imagine so many applications running you would need an entire desktop of widgets to monitor your precious media files.When is too much too much.They should make a widget for this.

This widget from Leopard monitors many functions surrounding your server.

PixelBreaker's Polarclock widget...on a mobile application.

PolarClock™ is the official Polar Clock for the iPhone/iPod Touch. It has arcs which extend from 0 degrees to 360 degrees as the interval (i.e. hour, min, sec) extends. The arcs reset once they reach the end of the interval. It's an interesting and unique way to visualize the time!

"Money raised from the sales of the iPhone version will go towards further development of both the iPhone and Mac/PC versions of PolarClock." - Gabriel Bucknall, PixelBreaker

Coming in next version (1.1):
- Integrated interactive settings with more ways to customize
- Additional arc reset animations
- Even smoother animation
- More languages supported
- World time with sunrise/sunset
- Stopwatch
- Countdown timer
- RSS ticker

If you want to have a very cool horoscope widget for your blog/site, but you didn't know where to find the resource, well I think you finally come to the right place.

This is a very fancy and sophisticated horoscope widget, bring to your by RockYou Horoscope.

All you need to do, just type in your D.O.B (Date of Birth) and you will get this cool widget by sending it directly to your email account.

The Zumobi media widget for mobile applications.

Zumobi, a spinoff from Microsoft, recently announced the launch of its widget user interface for BlackBerry cell phones. Zumobi allows users to select up to 16 different widgets, which are displayed in quadrants, allowing users to quickly zoom in on the information they need.

Zumobi is ad-supported, and displays a relevant advertisement across the bottom of the screen. Recently, several new widgets were added to the library, including ones from Twitter, Major League Baseball, Facebook, and even the 'BlackBerry Cool' blog.

Users can direct their cell phone's web browser to Get.Zumobi.com to register and download the application.

The Starry Night Widget by Apple.

About Starry Night Widget
The Starry Night widget shows you the night (and daytime) sky from anywhere on Earth, for any date and time. Try these:
- See what the sky looked like on your birthday!
- Set the date to the next eclipse and see how it will look from your backyard.
- Zoom in and see galaxies and nebulae photos from Hubble and other telescopes.
- Show the constellations.

What’s New in this Version
- Mouse-over for object information.
- Click to centre objects.
- Several bug fixes.

Apple software Survey Gizmo.

What can you do with SurveyGizmo and WordPress
Run everything from polls to multi-page surveys right from within your WordPress Posts and Pages
Build a custom and full-featured contact form or lead generation form for your “Contact Us” page
Take results from a survey/form and post them to another API, such as Constant Contact or Sales Force
Basically, if you need a form on a web page, SurveyGizmo can help you build it

The fanWagon American Idol Widget is bound to land on most fans of the show's desktops.

American Idol Widget Idol Mania Get all the latest info: Idol news, episode commentary, schedules and locations, and more. Cool. Simple. Free.

PixelBreaker's Polar Clock Widget.
PixelBreakers Polar Clock.

PolarClock 3.0 is now available as a screen saver for Mac and Windows, and also as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger. This release is a total rebuild from scratch using Flash CS3, Flex Builder and ActionScript 3.0. There has been a staggering amount of feedback over the past few months, all of which was very useful. There are more things to add, but there are only so many hours in the day! New Features

Language Selection (28 languages so far)
Text alignment (outside, centre or inside of arc)
Font size 12 - 30pt
24/12 hour clock modes
Flipping of text when it’s in the lower half of the arc (to stop it being upside down)
Guidelines behind arcs
Arc properties (thickness, padding, radius )
A spacer Arc for padding between Date and Time ( movable to be between any arc)
Continuous/Stepped motion (continuous was requested a lot, so that you can see a minute slowly stretching each second to become the next minute etc).
Ordering of the arcs. You can put the arcs in any order that you want.
Colours: Luminance, change the lightness of the arcs
Colours: Saturation, change the strength of the colour
Colours: Hue offset, change the hue of the arcs to between 0º and 360º

YWe Widget moniters vital information in a funny high-tech kind of way.

This widget is an AOL Top 100 Videos Widget.Not to be confused with AOL's Music Widgets.

What Are AOL Music Widgets?
AOL Music Widgets are mini applications that can be embedded in a web page or run from your desktop. You can keep track of the top videos on AOL Music and view these videos straight from your desktop, showcase your favorite artists on your Facebook profile, get quick access to their latest videos and photos and much more!

Download the latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features. This widget is available for free and currently works on both MAC and PC computers.

This advanced widget design is for Saab enthususists.Fast and easy to handle,just like a Saab.Access video clips and never-before-seen archives and articles from the world of Saab.

This widget from DailyDose will update your comical feeds with ease.

The Calvin and Hobbes Comical tracker widget updates your strips for you.

Comical Widgets from Warner Bro's might add some character to your page.

Picasa Web Albums - Joenutz - Drop Box

Crystal XCelcius Business Widgets

From Drop Box

This Apple SMS Widget may be functional for it's application,but $129.oo to get started seems to be a letdown with all the other free uses of widgets being distributed.

This is a handy widget from Revenue Tracker,which monitors key revenue metric values.

I am personally a big fan of the staff over at Neowork.net. Their interactive widgets are cutting edge,but user lag can occur if your computer system is slow.Feedjit also makes brilliant little widgets that can spice up your web page.From traffic flow meters to recommended reading lists,these little nick-knacks can do many tasks for us with a simple little HTML Snippet.

 

The functionality of a widget may influence the looks of its design,depending on the application.Widgets can be used for many things,including adding a user interface to your web page to display rich media files,or even play a selected music play list.Or possibly even a Mobile widget application is your cup of tea?Chances are you are a fan of widgets.

Widget engine
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with widget toolkit.
In computer software, a widget engine is a software service available to users for running and displaying applets on a graphical user interface, such as that of the desktop.

The term widget engine is not to be confused with that of a widget toolkit. Toolkits are destined to GUI programmers, who combine several widgets to form a single application. A widget in a toolkit provide a single, low level interaction, and is prepared to communicate with other widgets in the toolkit. On the other hand, widget engines are intended for end users and each desktop widget, while serving only a purpose that is usually addressed by the effort of one GUI widget in a full-scale application, is itself a stand-alone, task-oriented application which can be composed of several related interactions on its own.

The desktop widget model is attractive because of ease of development. Most of these widgets can be created with a few images and about 10 to several hundred lines of XML/JavaScript/VBScript source code. A single host software system, such as a web browser, runs all the loaded widgets. This allows several desktop widgets to be built sharing resources and code

GUI Widget
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article is about reusable components for building user interfaces. For small desktop/web applications, see widget engine. For other uses, see widget (disambiguation).
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In computer programming, a widget (or control) is an element of a graphical user interface (GUI) that displays an information arrangement changeable by the user, such as a window or a text box. The defining characteristic of a widget is to provide a single interaction point for the direct manipulation of a given kind of data. Widgets are basic visual building blocks which, combined in an application, hold all the data processed by the application and the available interactions on this data.

A family of common reusable widgets has evolved for holding general information based on the PARC research for the Xerox Alto User Interface. Different implementations of these generic widgets are often packaged together in widget toolkits, which programmers use to build graphical user interfaces (GUIs). Most operating systems include a set of ready-to-tailor widgets that a programmer can incorporate in an application, specifying how it is to behave. Each type of widgets generally is defined as a class by object-oriented programming (OOP). Therefore, many widgets are derived from class inheritance.

Widgets are sometimes qualified as virtual to distinguish them from their physical counterparts, e.g. virtual buttons that can be clicked with a mouse cursor, vs. physical buttons that can be pressed with a finger.

A related (but different) concept is the desktop widget, a small specialized GUI application that provides some visual information and/or easy access to frequently used functions such as clocks, calendars, news aggregators, calculators and desktop notes. These kinds of widgets are hosted by a widget engine.

As Wikipedia would explain there are many uses of the word as a whole in many different terms.
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Widget
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Widget may refer to:

Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device
Widget (beer), a small bead-like device placed in the bottom of cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth
Widget (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
Widget (Ryman Comics), Sidekick in Famous Comic Series "The Adventures of Ryman"
Widget (TV series), a 1990s limited television series
Nickname of the New York World Journal Tribune, a defunct newspaper
Widget (video game), a 1992 NES game developed by Atlus Co.
Widget UK, a UK based personal electronics distributor
Widget drive, a proprietary hard drive developed by Apple Computer used only in the Apple Lisa computer system.
USAF E-9A Widget
In computing, the term has become frequently used to refer to objects on a computer screen the user interacts with:

Widget engine, a software system for running applets on the web, desktop or mobile phone
GUI widget, a component of a graphical user interface with which a user interacts
Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications
Web widget, a physically-inspired applet on the web

 

We don't want to end up like the MillionDollar HomePage now, do we? Or do we?
If your computer can handle rich media files and applications,that's a start.
But what about the tarket audience,your viewers? Too much media on one page as demonstrated here can bog down a system's memory.