Konfabulator for Windows released

http://www.konfabulator.com
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Konfabulator is a program that allows users to add mini-applications called "widgets" to their Windows desktop. Popular widgets include weather monitors, stock tickers, picture frames, to-do lists, MP3 players, etc.

Konfabulator began its life as a Macintosh program. Last year they began porting it to Windows and here it is.

It's free to try and $25 to register.

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A heads up for new Konfab users... quite a few widgets require other parsing engines to be install on your PC. Usually PHP or ActivePERL. No biggy, but thought the info would be useful. EG. Mini FTPDrop requires PHP.

Nice app, give it a go. Give them all ago.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Amazing how similar the 2 screenshots are... Almost as if there were some intelligence behind the otherwise chaotic scheme of things...

But, of course, everybody knows that Konfabulator is doing things never done before on Windows... even if it's doing the exact same thing that DesktopX already did.
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It amazingly enough dose the same thing as DX but findes a way to use MUCH more memory.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Boy, that is the truth mormegil. I tried it, and while things look nice, with the default widgets running it was using a lot of memory. DX doesn't usually get above 30 megs for me, Konfab was up in the 70s.

It looks nice, but it just isn't doing anything for me that hasn't already been done.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm using Konfabulator right now, due to one thing: its "widgets" all conform to that glossy look, and are all incredibly high quality. DesktopX's objects are great, but really lack any conformity between sets (and any conformity usually relies on a "theme," such as the Killer theme, as opposed to a set of objects which can be a "one-size fits all" thing).

That said, Mormegil's Core set of objects is just what I'm looking for, and they're shaping up nicely. Though, I would like a blatent ripoff of some of Konfabulator's glossy objects too. ^_^
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

mittens - Only the widgets made by Arlo have that glossy look just like the widgets created by Mormegil have his glossy look.


Just go to the DX library and search via author.

Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Eh tried it, didn't care for it that much. DX still rocks, it just needs some more developers with great ideas for widgets and artists to pull it off visually.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, it uses up to 70MB RAM. With computers these days coming almost invariably with at least 512MB, 70 is really nothing at all. And I love the simplicity.

Bloatware it is not. DesktopX is a lot more bloated. I'm not say it _is_ bloated, just more than Konfab.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
tried it. not too impressed. the weather and calendar widgets are pretty good but mormegil's core widgets to the same thing ans use fewer resources. the only two widgets i saw that i don't know of any dx equivalents, and that i would use, are the 'where is it?' and 'world clock pro' items. it would be pretty cool to see those two as dx objects, imho. martin, where are you?
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Definately a resource hog but It didnt slow down my system at all. To me the quality of their graphics are unmatched and that is the reason why I'll keep it and use it. Too bad in their library there are only 15 to 20 widgets worth downloading the rest is pretty much useless...
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thing is when you get to it, that is the same for every library. How many "widgets" do you honestly need. 5 ish.. or 3,000. I say the former.
Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
True but can you say how long will you be using the same calendar or the same analog clock.