Add widgets to the Windows Desktop

Widgets is a word used to describe a new breed of software application: small tools that you never knew you wanted, until you started playing with them.

Though not dissimilar to traditional Windows add-ons and utilities in terms of functionality, the presentation of widgets is much quirkier. Windows’ Calculator application, for example, is a functional calculator, functionally presented. Ditto the Windows clock.

However, in widget world, two applications rarely look or operate in the same way. Some might say that’s a recipe for confusion; others content that widgets have put some fun back into software.

In the Workshops of Computeractive issue 220, we explore Yahoo Widgets, one of the best widgets 'platforms' around. So, refer to the magazine and click to transfer to the Yahoo Widgets download page.