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Konfabulous

After listening to Dwight talk about how much he loves Konfabulator (especially now it's free), I jumped on the geeky bandwagon and downloaded it.

However, there are almost 800 widgets available, so finding the ones you can't live without is a little daunting.

If you run Konfabulator, which widgets are the ones you have to have?

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I never used it to its fullest potential, but when I used it (back when we had to pay for it), I used mini-weather and the mini-calendar the most. Yeah, I know. A whole two widgets. Heh.

.: niki said on August 12, 2005 12:21 AM :: link it :.

I have just downloaded it myself. I have the weather, scribbler & picture frame setup at work. I have a calculator loaded up to quickly load in - it is quicker than going through the Start button. If I had something shipping I would use the shipping tracker, but the nice thing with widgets is you can easily hide the ones you don't need immediately.

The one thing I would like to see is a favorites list so I could drop in the calculator and a few others that I don't use that often but I want quick access to without any worry of them falling off the recent list.

.: Howard said on August 12, 2005 06:56 AM :: link it :.

Downloaded it, tried it, ditched it. It just felt like one more thing to clutter up the pc with. Eh.

.: LittleKenny said on August 12, 2005 06:40 PM :: link it :.

I installed it, loved the idea (I love widgets on the mac) ... couldn't work out why their CPU meter said I was using 50 - 70% usage when idle, when I know it should be much lower ... task manager agreed with konfabulator.

Turned Konfabulator off and suddenly cpu usage wasn't a problem any more. Oh dear :( It'll stay off for now.

Love the idea though, I really want to love it :)

.: smeg said on August 12, 2005 08:27 PM :: link it :.

I use the widgets on my mac for this purpose and my fav things that you might be able to find on konfabulator: weather for any city (I have 3 screens right now, Vancouver, Portland (to see diff across river), and Loma Linda (in-laws) - I swap that last one with whatever I'm watching at the time.) My very fav one is a TiVo now playing list that tells me everything that's on my TiVo w/o me turning it on. And there's a del.icio.us poster that detects the webpage I'm on and fills in the info to post. Oh, and some clocks for diff time zones. :) Helps when working with people in all areas!

.: kristine said on August 15, 2005 10:36 PM :: link it :.

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