Yahoo Widgets have learned to hide and update

Yahoo has released the fourth version of the Yahoo Widgets platform on the engine Konfabulator. As you know, this is one of the best desktop widget platforms that competes with similar platforms from Google, Apple and Microsoft Vista (see the overview of desktop widgets engines ). Simultaneously with the new engine, a beautiful widget for Flickr has been released.

The new version of the video engine has been significantly improved compared to the previous one (the list of major innovations ). The main thing is an improved interface and a new, bright and colorful launch pad for the Widget Dock (shown in the screenshot on the right), which can be “glued” to any corner of the screen or even stretched across multiple monitors.

Yahoo widgets now support automatic updates (for now only for proprietary Yahoo widgets). As soon as a new version becomes available for one of them, a bright indicator appears on the panel. If you click on it, the widget will be updated. Another new feature of mini-programs is to work in the “hidden” mode, with a simplified version of the interface displayed on the screen or even without an interface.

To facilitate the process of selecting widgets (and more than 4,300 of them have already been developed), a special “widget gallery” has appeared, built right into the panel. The developers propose to pay special attention to the new widget for Flickr: the most powerful of all widgets ever created by Yahoo programmers, by their own admission.
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In addition, in Yahoo Widgets 4, the engine's speed has been increased, memory consumption has been reduced by 40%, the automatic engine installation feature has been added (the distribution has been reduced from 11.3 MB to 6 MB) to the computer of the user who downloaded any widget, as well as many other “frills” ( full list of innovations ).