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Konsider Konfabulator

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Aug 11

A good friend of mine emailed me early this week asking if my Golf Tips widget would run in Konfabulator. I was fairly optimistic that it would work with a few tweaks. I think he knew that if he planted the seed I would get around to porting it. So I got started this eve and made huge progress. I have to say that the Konfabulator dev environment is one of the easiest that I’ve worked with yet. They support all kinds of crazy JavaScript that lets you grab system information such as memory usage, battery level, cpu usage, etc. There’s even a speak function that will do text-to-speech. This works like a champ on my Mac but haven’t tried it on Win.

I’m posting a screen of the current working version which I plan on publishing here and the Konfabulator widget gallery this weekend. In my opinion, the user experience of Konfabulator blows the Mac OS X dashboard concept out of the water. It’s even rumored that Mac stole the concept from Konfabulator which doesn’t suprise me. Anyway, you can have certain widgets activated at all times that sit on top of your applications. On OS X you have to go to the Dashboard to view the widgets. There’s a hack where you can select and hold a widget from the dock, hit F12, and actuallly drop it on your desktop. Yet this doesn’t even come close to the Konfabulator experience. I could go on and on but you should download a copy (it’s completely free) and use it. I’m currently running it on both my Mac and PC.

The most incredible thing about this whole “Dashboard” concept is that Konfabulator was recently purchased by Yahoo. Can you say three guys in a garage writing killer software?!? That’s right…..THREE GUYS! I’m blown away by the quality of the product in terms of funtionality, easy of development, documentation, and gorgeous graphics. The CEO of Konfab, Arlo Rose, puts out some KILLER widgets. I’m not sure if he does the actual widget design himself, but there’s some amazing talent coming from this team. So stay tuned for my Konfab Golf Tips widget and here’s the preliminary screen: