{"id":30,"date":"2006-03-19T11:32:50","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/2006\/03\/19\/yahoo_widgets\/"},"modified":"2006-03-19T11:32:50","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T11:32:50","slug":"yahoo_widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/archives\/yahoo_widgets.html","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen Mac OS X desktop widgets, I kind of filed that away for later perusal and got back to that now when I read about the Yahoo! Widgets library in PC Magazine.<br \/>\nVery cool stuff!  Widgets are great because you can access data and be presented with that data in a unique GUI that is optmized for that data.  No more are we confined to the idiosyncracies of a Web browser &#8211; let me tell you, after working on websites for almost 9 years, I am coming to hate the Web browser in many ways as much as I love it for what it can do.<br \/>\nI downloaded the Yahoo! Widgets engine and then checkout a whole bunch widgets, while closing some that aren&#8217;t really useful for me.  My current favorites are:<br \/>\n<strong>RSS News Reader by John Hinds<\/strong> &#8211; I loaded up all my RSS feeds into here.  Nice!<br \/>\n<strong>World Clock Pro<\/strong> &#8211; the ability to spawn separate clocks for each time zone is really important.<br \/>\n<strong>Yahoo! Weather<\/strong> &#8211; I love the transparency effects of this widget.  Very well done and I can monitor forecasts out 5 days which is important for planning my training days.<br \/>\n<strong>Picture Frame<\/strong> &#8211; somehow the presentation of this widget is better than many of the filmstrip applications out there.  I set it to my favorite Yahoo! Photos folder and let it run.  Funny that it doesn&#8217;t work with Flickr&#8230;?<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t wait for Tetris to show up, or TextTwist&#8230;!<br \/>\nGet some now at <a href=http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com>Yahoo! Widgets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen Mac OS X desktop widgets, I kind of filed that away for later perusal and got back to that now when I read about the Yahoo! Widgets library in PC Magazine. Very cool stuff! Widgets are great because you can access data and be presented with that data in a unique GUI that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dshen.com\/blogs\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}