Yahoo Widgets 4 released

Posted on March 23, 2007 at 6:04 pm

Let the Widget wars begin! Now you can choose from Microsoft Widgets, Google Widgets and Yahoo Widgets!!! Which all do the same thing!!! But I have to say that the Yahoo widgets look much better than Google Widgets and seem to run a little bit faster. However, if you’re using Vista, then the Yahoo widgets and the Windows widgets are pretty close.

The Yahoo widget also have more options so that you can change colors, transparency, etc, whereas I didn’t find very many choices in Google gadgets.

The Yahoo widgets also have one other cool feature called the Heads Up Display mode, which basically blacks out your screen and shows all of your widgets over everything else. This is very useful if you’ve got a couple of applications open and you want to quickly view something on one of your gadgets which can be anywhere on the screen, just press the shortcut key (F8) and you see everything….

If you’re a big Flickr user, Yahoo has a widget for you to not only stream your photos from Flickr to your desktop, but you can also batch upload pictures to your Flickr account without having to open a web page! Nice!

You can try out the new Yahoo Widgets here: http://widgets.yahoo.net/blog/?p=20#more-20

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