One of the programs I’ve always had my eye on is Konfabulator, a program that delivers news and information from the Internet to your desktop in the form of “widgets.” Anyway, a change recently happened that makes me want to say “yahoo!”

Yahoo! recently acquired the company that creates Konfabulator, and have now made Konfabulator a free release. To download the program, visit www.konfabulator.com and then click “Download” on the menu bar. Be sure to also check out the widget gallery to browse the directory of the thousands of widgets you can download.

Here’s a list of widgets I’m currently using:

  • Werewolf Monitor (bundled with Konfabulator) - a widget that shows the current phase of the moon.
  • Firefox Downloads Counter - displays the number of times Firefox has been downloaded.
  • mini Weather - small widget showing current weather conditions for the given zip code.
  • Radar Widget - downloads scaled radar map from The Weather Channel website for a given area.
  • Binary Clock - helps me practice my binary translation skills. ;-)