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I had heard of Konfabulator in the past as being an Apple app that displayed widgets on your screen, and, being a Windows man and not usually a fan of having junk cluttering my desktop, didn’t pay much notice to it. So when I heard that Yahoo had bought the company and then released the software for free, I thought: “Good on ya Yahoo…” but didn’t think anything more about it. Until… a couple of the guys at work where talking about the Windows version and all the cool widgets you can download…

So I hastily found their site and downloaded the latest version and installed it on my new notebook. The installer works as expected and then launches a few recommened widgets on the screen, like the wireless link monitor (good for my home wireless network), CPU load & memory monitor, an analog clock, and a search tool.

It’s now been two days and I can’t see my Windows Vista wallpaper for all the widgets that are scattered across the desktop! I don’t know how long I’ll keep using them – I’ve tried similar products before (although not as cool looking) and I usually get bored of them after a while. They don’t use up much CPU time but each one uses between two and four MB’s RAM – good thing I’ve just purchased an additional gig of RAM for my notebook…