We’ve known for about a week that Yahoo! Widget Engine 4 was going to be released this morning, and anyone following our release calendar in the sidebar would have also known that. I remember back when Yahoo! acquired the widget engine and it was still called Konfabulator. Everyone was worried that since Yahoo! had purchased such a great program that they were going to drive it into the

Tutorial Thursday

Google Gadgets have been around for several years now and number in the thousands (more than 4,400 at the time of this writing). Windows Vista, on the other hand, is still pretty new and the selection of gadgets is slowly making progress with just over 1,100 currently available. There is a nifty little application called Amnesty Generator that will actually convert Google gadgets,

It seems like yesterday that Adobe released Apollo, oh, wait that was just two-days ago. ;) To help commemorate the event YourMinis has just released an Apollo application that will bring online widgets into your offline world!

YourMinis is a website that offers a ton of widgets for you to place on a homepage. They have a wonderful tabbed interface that helps prevent too many widgets from cluttering up one

I’ve known Spotback for quite awhile to be a great news aggregation service with a slight twist. It is setup so that users can rate articles, and based upon that, they will be shown news that Spotback thinks goes along well with the news that they rate as good.

Spotback has now begun the process of making their rating tool available to the rest of the web! We are lucky enough

Netvibes has been chuggin’ along well, introducing new features to prepare for their latest Coriander Release. Just a few weeks ago they trickled out new features for that release like the theme (rounded corners, shiny colors), and today they took the last big step by releasing Coriander in its entirety.

There are several new features like easy sharing of your customized Netvibes modules, a quick start feature where newbies can get their Netvibes set

People have been anticipating the Netvibes Universal Widget API for quite a while now, and finally it’s been released. Now developers will be able to create Netvibes widgets that can be used as a Vista gadget, Mac Widget, or even used on your Google personalized homepage.This makes it easy to put your favorite widgets anywhere you’d like.

There are just a few widgets as of now, but I can imagine that the selection will

The team over at Netvibes have clearly been working hard at getting out new features that are both useful and intuitive. Just last week, we mentioned Netvibes2Go, their version of a personalized homepage for mobile devices. Today they’ve just announced new features in preparation for the new Coriander version of Netvibes.

One of the first things that you’ll notice is their new Coriander theme with rounded corners and shiny colors that make this theme my