Konfabulator!
Posted on February 27, 2003
Filed Under Macintosh
I’m normally not one to hack and modify my system beyond what is functionally necessary. It usually leads me to trouble, like last month when I installed “Silk,”:http://www.unsanity.com/ not realizing that it wasn’t fit for Jaguar and I ended up reformatting my iBook. Ouch.
I kept hearing about “Konfabulator”:http://www.konfabulator.com/ and I certainly know the reputation of one of its developers, Arlo Rose. So tonight I decided to take a look. The website is soooo purty. It seems safe enough since the widgets are all self-contained. I decided to try the demo and it is definitely cool. I downloaded a bunch of widgets and now I have the weather, my schedule, a launcher, a quick click to the finder and a search tool in easy reach on my desktop. Here’s what my desktop now looks like:
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I’ll play with it a few days and then I’ll probably pay for it. This seems to be *the* OS X tool to have and with good reason. It’s only $25.
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2 Responses to “Konfabulator!”
The question I found myself asking, uhhh, myself was this: don’t I have things that do what these widgets do, and do it better? Look at that battery and airport signal thing you’ve got. Or the weather one. Now look at your menu bar, top right: you’ve got those sam ethings (and you’d have the weather one with WeatherPop, etc.).
For me, Konfabulator was nifty for the two minutes I used it, but since its windows are easily hidden or otherwise entirely too large while doing very little, I deemed it not worth $5, let alone $25.
True enough. What I like about Konfabulator is its promise. It’s the same reason I bought .Mac and why I set up Movable Type. I’m a sucker for nifty gadgets with user communities.