Saturday, April 22, 2006

Opera 9 featuring widgets

 Linux have them, OS X have them, Yahoo have them and now also the excellent web browser Opera. Of course, I am talking about widgets, these small nifty toolboxes that you place anywhere on your computer screen or just bring up when you need them.

Opera 9 is first though with widgets in a browser (no, Firefox's extensions are not the same thing) and they seem to have great potential. There are radio widgets, wikipedia widgets, calculator widgets, comic widgets and so on. To jumpstart the widgetmaking, Opera has created a competition for the best widget. The big price is a sweet $6,000 computer. How about that? Now, go make a widget. Rumor is also that it is very easy to convert a Yahoo widget if you are already in that game.

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