Konfabulator

www.konfabulator.com

Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your AirPort signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give your current local weather.
What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of Apple's Quartz rendering. This allows Widgets to blend fluidly into your desktop without the constraints of traditional window borders. Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Mac OS X.
The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.
For the "skinning" crowd, Konfabulator is a dream come true. You can easily change the look, feel, layout, even functionality of a Widget so that it matches your lifestyle, your desktop, or the pants or skirt you have on that day.

That is cool as ****. Wish there was something that useful on the PC. Anyone know of anything even close? Of course not. Because the PC is worthless. Pffffft.

Cybling, go buy it and tell us how cool it is!

Deker you might be interested in Web Services - trust me when I say that all the smart money is going into developing and marketing them. Our design firm is going all out on them, it smells money in them and so should you.

"Web Services" means nothing to me. What the hell is it? Just like .NET. No one knows the it is. Therefore it is useless.

I have no money :( Pretty slick though!

Get a mac dek!

I will someday. But $25 is less than $3000 for a new Mac. So I insist that you must buy it. ;)

Originally posted by deker
www.konfabulator.com



That is cool as ****. Wish there was something that useful on the PC. Anyone know of anything even close? Of course not. Because the PC is worthless. Pffffft.

Cybling, go buy it and tell us how cool it is!

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Might be time to go get a Mac, dek.

..i'll look into it. I'm downloading it now..it might be a demo for a few days and then an 'insert code' thingy will pop up. I'll post screens

I would make a widget that pulls the RSS or XML feeds from all my favorite blogs and scrolls them across the bottom of my screen.

It would be a web design CNN. Whoa!

www.zeldman.com
www.daringfireball.com
www.whatdoiknow.org
www.37signals.com/svn
www.digital-web.com

All in one place with clickable headlines to take me directly to the story I want to read. No more checking all those pages separately several times a day. Hooray!

They already have a HTML validator widget. One click validating. Excellent.

thehermit: Don't waste your energy on Dek when he gets into one of his mac envy modes...

Well, there is already a RSS newsfeed ticker tape displayer thing. So I could just add all those sites to it and be on my merry way. It is ugly though, so I would customize it with new graphics.

thehermit: ignore dan when he is in one of his make-fun-of-dek-because-he-likes-macs modes.