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Yahoo Widgets. - Customize that desktop!

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Guys, if you are a Sirius subscriber, you should download the yahoo widget engine and then get the Sirius widget, its great, if you are listening to Sirius radio, it won't cut out after 20-30 minutes of inactivity on your computer, that is what happens when you use the radio when you log on to the Sirius.com page and open their player... this yahoo widget lets you stream the radio forever... I listen to Howard stern and its great to be in bed and not have to worry about it cutting out.... He...
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Yahoo Widgets. - Customize that desktop!

Wolves
Here's a dandy little tool for customizing your desktop, kind of like the MacOSX ones. There is tons of different doo-dads (for lack of a better term) that you may put on your desktop. They've got everything from notepads to weather reports and mini-games. I personally use the CPU monitor and weather report. [LINK]

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amhso
yahoo's stuff always keeps slowing my computer down down down.

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hulunes
well,the content of your given link looks very useful
however dont wanna waste my memory resource on that tongue.gif

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T100
I have heard about similar "widgets" from other companies before. They are like Windows Vista, which allows you to put various thing on the desktop, including a desktop search, weather, rss feed reader etc. I have never tried them before, because I like a clear desktop. I have less then a column of icons on it and only two to three icons at the tray. I don't like to crowd my desktop.


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PmH
Have you seen styleXP? It's not free, but the demo is. It lets you style a lot of things on your XP, different skins and themes and all that goodness.

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amhso
widgets arent just styles, they are also programs that do stuff.

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CoreySnorey
yeah its kinda like google desktop, it sucks resources! I think its a conspiracy to slow all our computers down and inslave them. But thats just me.

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AceGirl
I love them. The only problem is that they slow down your computer. Trust me you will notice no matter how great your computer is. Because of all of that I uninstalled the engine.

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garbage
too bad that they slow the pc downs. but as far the widgets go, i use mac and they are great.. i dont have the yahoo's version.. but im sure they still are great and im assuming they are all pretty much the same if not still very similar..

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lekrissy
I have Yahoo! Widgets, but I keep it off of my desktop. I keep in its own folder and open it if I need it. I use the word counter more than anything because I write for a website. It's really helpful!

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dogbolter
Guys, if you are a Sirius subscriber, you should download the yahoo widget engine and then get the Sirius widget, its great, if you are listening to Sirius radio, it won't cut out after 20-30 minutes of inactivity on your computer, that is what happens when you use the radio when you log on to the Sirius.com page and open their player... this yahoo widget lets you stream the radio forever... I listen to Howard stern and its great to be in bed and not have to worry about it cutting out.... Here is the link to the widget.... Enjoy!!!

http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=38478

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odomike
Been using them Yahoo! widgets for some time. After the instalation, I noticed my computer will never shut down immediately I click on the shut down. You know, I was not even able to figure out what my problems were. I started hibernating my PC more often than a complete shut down. I also noticed that during start up and after the login screen, it takes my computer a much longer time to display the desktop than usual. And one more thing, before it finally starts shutting down, it will always complain that the Yahoo widgets engine is not responding n I will always click the end now button.

Them widgets suck like hell. I had to remove all of them and leave my windows XP and Vista to be as free as possible from all of 'em.

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dastrophy
A widget is a micro application that runs inside another host application. This host application usually contains its own programming language such that to make a widget you do not need to be extremelly knowledgeable in code, rather you only need some basics: so in perhaps a standard program language you might need to write a string like:

draw box 123,123 to 345,345
shade box color 445234
draw box.....
shade....background color etc.

In a widget it may read:
Big Hollow box: green

And the widget engine interprets this data and displays it using its own code.




As for the Yahoo widget engine: the new one uses half the system resources of the old one, plus for Windows XP users, it is an ideal alternative to the Vista toolbar: more options and applications available, looks better, uses less system resources, and you can even write your own widgets if you can't find exactly what you are looking for!

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hitmanblood
I would like to know if anyone can provide real explanation what widgets are in fact. Because I have found usage of this term in many programs and it has been used in wide variety of occasions. So if anyone could put explanation here what widgets really are? It would be more than appreciated.

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srujanlive
It slows mine soooooooo much. I only use it for the itunes companion widget to download artwork and lyrics. Dont use any others. I prefer the google desktop gadgets. So much better and lesserr memory.

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