The brilliant konfabulator

my friend Hi-tech and i have this habit of sharing with each other our discoveries that we find over the world wide web and the 'konfabulator' is one of our latest discoveries.

You can download it at:
http://www.konfabulator.com/downloads/

and check the home page out for the different 'widgets' that it has to offer.
http://www.widgetgallery.com/

What is the Konfabulator?
Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and 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 WiFi 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 today's advanced graphics. 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 Windows XP and 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.Konfabulator is the first product from Pixoria Inc.

Who are these guys?
Arlo Rose introduced themeable interfaces to the world with his work at Apple on the Appearance Manager and on the popular customization utility Kaleidoscope. He's been using a Macintosh to do cool stuff since it was released in 1984 and would rather leave the industry than have to use another operating system to get his work done (but will happily develop software for it).

Perry Clarke writes: In late 1983 I got a glimpse of my first Macintosh. I was sworn to secrecy because they weren't out yet and they were The Next Big Thing. As a junior engineer visiting a Valley company from an office in Ireland I had no idea what the fuss was about. Later the next year I got to play with one for real and was smitten. I can remember visiting a small computer store on El Camino Real and browsing the software hung in plastic bags from a rack, stuff written by people in their spare time. I figured I could do that but the opportunity never seemed to present itself (more precisely, the Macintosh never presented itself). Over the years and jobs I've usually managed to get people interested in Macs at the places I've worked but rarely had the chance to work on them professionally always ending up hacking UNIX or enduring Windows. In the early '90s a friend lent me his retired SE30 and I was enamored once more. Now the day-to-day work gets done on a dual processor G4, legally a munition, indeed. A little over a year ago I met Arlo and he convinced me to collaborate on the coolest software produced since, um, Kaleidoscope. The rest, as they say, is history.