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Beyond the Browser: Widgets and Rich Internet/Desktop Applications (RIDAs)
White Papers This presentation explains the widgets and Rich Internet/Desktop Applications (RIDAs).
[October 6, 2007, 1:00]
Opera 9: Widgets are the new Web
News Opera released version 9 of its browser on Tuesday, adding native BitTorrent support and small Web applications called Widgets. First announced in beta in April, Opera 9 is the latest step in the company's efforts to make its browser a platform for...
[June 21, 2006, 15:45]
Widgets Preference Pane
Downloads Dashboard Widgets are fun, but they have brought with them several new headaches for Mac users: Management - If you use Safari, or you know where Widgets are supposed to be installed, installing and removing Widgets is easy.
[June 21, 2005, 8:00]
LiMo sets standard for mobile Linux widgets
News The LiMo Foundation, a major mobile industry consortium devoted to spreading Linux across handsets, has agreed on a common standard for developing mini web applications, or widgets, for phones. Bondi draws on web standards such as HTML, CSS and...
[February 9, 2009, 14:18]
Google Gadgets: more widgets for Web sites review
Reviews We're entering an era of widgets. If you're interested in adding widgets to your pages, though, there are at the moment only a few good directors to grab them from. One of them is Widgetbox, and now there's Google, which has made it possible for...
[October 5, 2006, 9:05]
IBM offers Lotus with extra widgets
News Users can easily drag and drop widgets directly into Lotus Symphony, distinguishing it from static office productivity tools such as Microsoft Word," said IBM in a statement. This drag-and-drop feature also makes Symphony stand out from other...
[September 11, 2009, 17:15]
Met Office unveils weather web widgets
News The UK's Met Office has launched a range of web widgets allowing people to get the latest weather forecasts and storm warnings on their desktop. The mini-applications are free to download from the Met Office website and include localised weather...
[November 23, 2007, 10:44]
Midget widgets for mobile digits
Blog Bah humbug ranting out of the way - mobile widgets are of course of huge interest right now as these ‘mini-applications’ sit on handsets to provide personalised information retrieval from the web. They point out that, “Widgets are based on web code...
[February 12, 2009, 6:18]
Opera 9 beta: Widgets are us
News Opera has released a beta of version nine of its browser with an array of new features including, for the first time, widgets, extended support for BitTorrent and a pop-up blocker that can also be used to block other unwanted screen real estate...
[April 20, 2006, 17:45]
Apple widgets coming to Windows
News The site, called Konfabulator, launched in February and has attracted a wide following of Mac users drawn to its JavaScript applets, or "widgets," that tell the time, predict the weather, monitor battery or central processing unit usage and track...
[December 17, 2003, 7:55]
The Widgets Widget
Downloads The Widgets Widget is a cross-platform widget set launcher. Assign widgets to up to 8 groups and then open and close them with a single button click. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[May 17, 2007, 7:30]
Opera 9 beta: Widgets are us
Talkback Long time Opera user here. Love it alot, though sometimes the company makes me a little crazy. The mail function is nice, but the Address book is perpetually inadequate. I just installed Opera 9 over my current 8.52.
[April 20, 2006, 20:16]
Acme CMM Widgets
Downloads You can copy the full path to a file (as an URL or Finder filepath), create a new clipping file from text on the clipboard, and choose colors for use in Web pages by sampling pixels anywhere on your desktop (I find this indispensible!
[January 2, 2003, 6:00]
Sun execs show off JavaFX widgets
News Sun demos new JavaFX-powered applets at its annual JavaOne Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Danny Coward and Ken Russell of Sun's Java Platform Standard Edition team show how the new applets can be deployed within a web browser or dragged...
[May 8, 2008, 12:46]
Firefoxy
Downloads Firefoxy is an app that applies Philippe Wittenberg's fancy Firefox widgets via drag-and-drop. What this app does: This app places a couple files inside the Firefox application that tell Firefox how to draw the widgets that you find on websites.
[February 6, 2006, 6:00]
Widget Tamer
Downloads You can move and remove installed widgets. It also has built-in links to the best widgets the web has to offer. Preview facility allows you to try widgets out before you install them. Widget Tamer provides a one-stop interface for managing your...
[June 30, 2005, 8:00]
Simple Widget Monitor
Downloads Simple Widget Monitor displays the status information of one or more widgets in the Yahoo Widget Gallery. You can add widgets using the plus button on top. Deleting entries is done by clicking the delete button next to each entry.
[April 20, 2007, 14:48]
Amnesty Widget Browser
Downloads Amnesty Widget Browser is a utility for Mac OS X Tiger and Panther (10.3.9) that allows Dashboard widgets to have expanded capabilities as they run directly on your desktop via a convenient icon in your system menu bar.
[December 10, 2008, 17:49]
Amnesty Screen Saver
Downloads Amnesty Screen Saver is a screen saver module that allows Dashboard widgets to animate around your screen while going about their business, such as getting information from the web or keeping you updated on the status of your computer's...
[December 10, 2008, 17:50]
New Technologies for Ajax and Web Application Development: Project jMaki
White Papers Project jMaki gives a simple way to include Ajax-enabled widgets in the web applications. The jMaki technology does this by allowing to wrap widgets in a JavaServer Pages (JSP) technology tag handler or a JavaServer Faces component.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
