14 DAY TRIAL // Windows desktop represents the bridge between you and various applications that run on the computer or a web server. If you want to customize your Windows desktop, you can bring almost any Internet information or service right on it through Yahoo! Widgets.
Yahoo! Widgets is the free platform available for Windows and MacOS operating systems, that uses Javascript and XML to deploy small and specific applications named widgets. For an easy start, the default installation of Yahoo! Widgets provides you with a set of widgets, such as clock, weather widget, Yahoo stocks, text messaging widget and more.
These widgets can offer you information concerning your operating system or hardware state, as well as Internet information. For example, you can read your RSS feeds, watch movies and listen to music directly from your Windows desktop. Much in the same way, you can monitor the computer battery, the CPU usage level, memory gauge and more. You can add more widgets to accomplish various other tasks.
You can also define and test your own widgets. For example, Widget Maker is a tool that allows you to construct widgets compatible with Yahoo! Widgets. It provides a very intuitive user interface that allows you to generate the XML script of a widget. If you want to manage SQLite databases, a very friendly SQLite editor can help you to add, remove, edit or delete records in an easy manner.
Every widget can be configured by specifying preferences. The speed of execution is very high for every widgets' actions. They are small and optimized for speed. Even if the recommended amount of RAM is 512MB, I have tested the Yahoo! Widgets application on a computer with a 300 MHz CPU (AMD) and 64 MB RAM (Windows 2000) and they worked very well.
This fact demonstrates Yahoo! Widgets' high degree of compatibility with older computers, which means an increased accessibility. The possibility of defining your own widgets provides you with new methods of unlocking the power of your Windows desktop. These widgets, viewed as custom desktop tools, will help you gain time and easily organize your tasks.