Play Widgets software

Bring life to your desktop with fun Konfabulator Widgets. These little guys hang out on your screen and give you quick, easy access to favorite content. You can even change their style to match yours.


Search giant Yahoo said on Monday that it has bought Pixoria, a company that provides small, downloadable programs that let computer users quickly get up-to-the-minute information, such as stock quotes and weather reports without having to open a Web browser.

First download the respective Konfabulator version by clicking on this link.

Full install 5.2 MB
Requires Mac OS X 10.2 or greater
Full install 8.8 MB
Requires Windows XP or 2000

Some default widgets gets installed, you can customize them or download new widgets from this pool.

few of my fav...
Kolitaire
Daily Dose
BitTorrent Search Widget
Memory Hog
Dixonary
Elegant Stickies
Flickr Upload Widget
Fancy Goldfish
Earthcarma
Bestsellers
12 RSS News Widgets
Digg News
Felix
Scribbler
Urban Dictionary

list goes on n on...

I used to play with them few years back. Creating interesting desktops with widgets is such a craze those days.
If you are anything like me to experiment with new softwares or widegets, then this is worth a try.

by the way can u watch my three cute ants and my yummy mango right on my desktop??
theres a long story about those mango slices.....vl post sometime.

Fireup Firefox software

For those who still use IE, think again...
checkout firefox and u cant help sticking to it like it did .....

Officials at the open source Mozilla Foundation released an update for the Firefox browser Tuesday.

Firefox 1.0.5 is the first update to the popular alternative browser since May 11, when the organization fixed three critical bugs to the Mozilla Update Web service. Firefox 1.0.4 was rushed out the door days after two of the flaws were published by an outfit called the Greyhats Security Group.

these are top15 firefox extensions
My fav extensions are as follows ..

tab browser preferences
session saver
mouse gestures
stumble upon (helped me at dull times) gmail notifier....
IE view
egg on
foxy tunes
google preview
customize google
super drag and go
Image shack right-click
download manager tweak
sage and so on...
u can dowload all these from here and
few more important extensions here and here. (dont miss these)


here are common plugins

i prefer not to load any themes..coz once i load i start changing them frequently which degrades my net time... but for those who wanna take a look.....checkout
silver, noia....

secrets of firefox for those who love to tweak it a little.

here are few keyboard shortcuts worth noting

additional help , tips, tricks to checkout

and finally for those who dare to dig deeper
checkout the tut. abt how to write firefox extensions.