Friday, June 10, 2005
Konfabulator - V2
I have been using this great little utility now for some time and it has proven invaluable.
Konfabulator is a shareware applett manager for Mac and Windows. The shareware version has all of the functions of the registered version but with a popup reminder to register. Registration is US$19.95.
Once the user downloads and installs Konfabulator a library of widgets (appletts) is established from which the user can choose which widgets to run. The widgets sit on the desktop and come with configuration options depending on the function the widget is to perform. The user can access the Konfabulator Widget Gallery to download additional appletts. At the writing of this entry there are 584 widgets.
Some of my favourites are;
System dashboards
This includes memory (including Virtual, RAM, and HDDs), Battery, Wireless signal strength, and Time.
Various clocks
These last two allow you to view multiple time zones.
And various forms of count down timers including programmable and specific events.
Believe me, there are some wierd clocks!
RSS Feeds
There are many RSS type feeds and a number of dedicated news feeds as well
Web Cams
A number of web cams and traffic reports from cities from around the world - but not my city!
There are many other utilities to suite every taste.
My only gripe is not with the program itself but more a windows thing. I use There and when I have the There window open and there is a widget behind the There window that is updating it flashes through the There window which becomes quite annoying. I am not sure wether this is the video driver or a Windows thing.
However ahving said that I now find that this is one of my must haves. This little gem is well worth a look.
Konfabulator is a shareware applett manager for Mac and Windows. The shareware version has all of the functions of the registered version but with a popup reminder to register. Registration is US$19.95.
Once the user downloads and installs Konfabulator a library of widgets (appletts) is established from which the user can choose which widgets to run. The widgets sit on the desktop and come with configuration options depending on the function the widget is to perform. The user can access the Konfabulator Widget Gallery to download additional appletts. At the writing of this entry there are 584 widgets.
Some of my favourites are;
System dashboards
This includes memory (including Virtual, RAM, and HDDs), Battery, Wireless signal strength, and Time.
Various clocks
These last two allow you to view multiple time zones.
And various forms of count down timers including programmable and specific events.
Believe me, there are some wierd clocks!
RSS Feeds
There are many RSS type feeds and a number of dedicated news feeds as well
Web Cams
A number of web cams and traffic reports from cities from around the world - but not my city!
There are many other utilities to suite every taste.
My only gripe is not with the program itself but more a windows thing. I use There and when I have the There window open and there is a widget behind the There window that is updating it flashes through the There window which becomes quite annoying. I am not sure wether this is the video driver or a Windows thing.
However ahving said that I now find that this is one of my must haves. This little gem is well worth a look.
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Website - yoyo like!
The DSL link to my website is partially broken and is constantly going up and down so you may have ingtermittant problems accessing it. My son recently married and moved into a new unit with his lovely wife and got ASDL 2+ connected. It is not working quite as well as he hoped!
Intro - Who am I
Yea, g'day.
Welcome to my Tech Blog. My personal blog is here and contains such things as movies I have seen, books I have read, things that happened to me, and my persopnal views.
This blog is strictly confined to technical issues af an IT nature.
I have been working in the IT industry for about 15 years and have a wide range of experience, although I tend to the Unix envoronment.
Bye for now,
John
Welcome to my Tech Blog. My personal blog is here and contains such things as movies I have seen, books I have read, things that happened to me, and my persopnal views.
This blog is strictly confined to technical issues af an IT nature.
I have been working in the IT industry for about 15 years and have a wide range of experience, although I tend to the Unix envoronment.
Bye for now,
John
