Comments on: Yahoo! Widgets vs. Google Gadgets

By: Doctor Star

Doctor Star — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:38:40 +0000

Thanks for the gadgets that save time to do the code yourself and have that easy coverage already made and even to add yourself more new idea to the others users in the internet and os

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:15:44 +0000

Thanks for the post, you just saved me the time –and likely inevitable frustration– of trying out Google gadgets :)

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:52:15 +0000

I like to have my gadgets/widgets allways the same so I’m looking for a tool that can covert google gadgets into yahoo widgets and viceversa, does anybody knows something that does it?

By: KFunk

KFunk — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:03:15 +0000

Yahoo Widgets are way ahead in looks, but I prefer Google’s web services, so I have to go with the fugly Google Gadgets. And now we have Vista Gadgets, which is just a rebranded Google Gadgets but with a sleeker albeit not as sleek as Widgets look.

And don’t forget about Rainmenter and Samarai. Independent solutions FTW!

By: gaurav

gaurav — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:44:50 +0000

a need it

By: Earl Holdridge

Earl Holdridge — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:19:29 +0000

Can you help me? I’m looking for a widget that will accept comments of more than about 100 words. Also, I need a widget that requires name and address for building a list of activists for submitting to legislators. I have an iMac and prefer apple widgets.

By: subhash

subhash — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:39:25 +0000

Hi
i want to know how we can create a widget……

plz reply me as soon as possible……

By: Chintan Sheth

Chintan Sheth — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:45:55 +0000

Hi
i want to know how we can create a widget……

plz reply me as soon as possible……

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:55:24 +0000

very nice review of the two widget engines, exactly what I was looking for.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:35:21 +0000

Very well! Your site is neat!
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By: rahul

rahul — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:20:56 +0000

google gadgets are worst gadgets in the world.yahoo gadgets are best

By: jangelo

jangelo — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:46:15 +0000

I’ve recently shifted to using a PowerBook as my main work machine, and I kind of miss my Google Gadgets.

By: Mac OS

Mac OS — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:10:33 +0000

It would seem that Google Desktop is totally useless. It doesn’t run on Mac.
Yahoo/Konfabulator was developed on the Mac!

I use Gmail because Yahoo Mail is garbage. They charge for POP/SMTP access where Google is totally FREE!

I guess there is no perfect solution.

Maybe someday one of these guys will be truly cross platform and free…

For now, I use Apple Widgets on my Macs, and Yahoo widgets on my PCs.

By: redmage777

redmage777 — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:20:37 +0000

It could also be argued that Stardocks DesktopX had widgets (under the name “Objects”) Prior to Konfabulator. This may be true but it seems the term “Widget” was added to DesktopX after Konfabulator became popular.

If I recall, Stardock claims to have put Widgets on the desktop first but does not beleve that they had any influance on the developent of Konfabulator.

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By: Soong

Soong — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:05:54 +0000

Double-tap shift to show all your Google Gadgets on screen, double-tap again to hide them all.

By: jangelo

jangelo — Mon, 29 May 2006 10:32:20 +0000

Simon,

I agree about that weather thing. These days, with the climate changing in my place, it would be bright and sunny one moment and raining cats and dogs a few minutes after. Weather “forecasts” are just about as fuzzy as a kitty cat bathed and blow-dried!

I usually have the things just hidden behind my windows or minimized, except for the clock, which I have chiming every 15 minutes (reminding me to GTD–get things done!). :P

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 29 May 2006 09:09:22 +0000

If you want to actually get anything done with you day – turn the darn things off! Too much clutter – too much rubbish on the screen. And if you need to know the weather – take a look out the window ;-)

By: orangeacid

orangeacid — Thu, 25 May 2006 16:20:18 +0000

I also run both google desktop and the Y! widget engine :)

I use the digital clock, system resource meter, picture frame and volume control widgets, and the ‘media player remote’, search, google calendar, news, ‘web clips’ (aggregator), timer, to-do, scratchpad and netstat gadgets.

I would prefer it if google made their gadgets engine more like widgets and more appealing, rather than widgets becomeing more like google desktop.

By: computerdude33

computerdude33 — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:58:13 +0000

Er, never mind… but it still applies to the “OS X-like” thing.

By: computerdude33

computerdude33 — Thu, 25 May 2006 14:57:22 +0000

You do realize Konfabulator/Yahoo Widgets was out on Mac first, right?