Konfabulator is free!

[Senor Kyle]

Konfabulator 2.1+ is now free for all to own (no more registration reminders!)

https://www.konfabulator.com/

(In case you don't figure out why, it got taken over by yahoo!)

 

[Trent]

I'd rather stick to the Dashboard on my PowerBook G4

 

[Yameneko549]

I perfer DesktopX, even if you do have to pay for it. Konfab is still good for being free, though.

 

[mvtm]

Ohh thats great news, i got the older versions, too lazy too update , but i might as those reminder widgets annoy me.

 

[Geometric-sama]

I did see a newspaper article about Yahoo buying Konfabulator - it seems to be a way to compete with Google releasing Picasa for free. I'm not sure if I'll install it, since widgets aren't really my thing, but I might give it a go.

 

[Senor Kyle]

A. Of course you would Trent. After all, Apple stole the idea from Konfabulator (prove me wrong)
B. Konfabulator's API is one of the best documented APIs in the Widget Community

 

[Trent]

Now that you mention it, I remember getting a free trial of Konfabulator a year or two ago, before the Dashboard was invented

 

[pokejungle]

Hmmmm...

Never heard of it XD I'll check it out though ^^;

 

[pokejungle]

How do you all seem to find room for this stuff? =S I don't like things that compromise my screen space. It kinda bugs me.

But admittably, Konfabulator looked cool XD

 

[Senor Kyle]

Konfabulator was first released in 2003: Proof at https://www.konfabulator.com/cartoon/partFour.html (a comic form of Konfab's history)
https://www.macworld.com/2004/10/features/bargainssystem/ (a review, which includes Konfabulator by Macworld in 2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konfabulator - A wikipedia article for Konfabulator
https://www.maximumpc.com/2005/02/how_to_konfabul.html - A tutorial on how to "Konfabulate" your desktop - also published in their Feburary 2005 mag (how I found Konfabulator)

OS X Tiger was released this year: Proof at https://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/12/tiger/index.php

 

[Geometric-sama]

I did read somewhere that Apple developed the idea from Konfabulator...

 

[Senor Kyle]

You wouldn't believe how ticked Arlo was.