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15 Cool Yahoo Widgets

Adding widgets to your desktop can make it more attractive and fun. A few of them are very useful in monitoring your system activities and the rest are for sheer fun. Here is a list of some widgets from Yahoo! which I found very interesting. All of these can be downloaded from http://widgets.yahoo.com.

  1. Sys Monitor



    It monitors all the local system information like CPU, memory, Hard Drive, battery, network, volume etc.
  2. World Clock Pro



    This widget monitors the time around the world. Each city in this widget has exactly calculated sunrise/sunset times, and the clock color changes according to whether it's day or night in the monitored region.
  3. Informer



    Informer not only monitors your system resources like CPU, memory and disk usages, battery life, WiFi etc., and internet resources like RSS feeds, Gmail inbox and IMAP4/POP3 Mail boxes but also displays them on your desk top.
  4. Net Monitor



    Net Monitor helps you show your current network traffic using WMI on windows and netstat on Mac.
  5. Day Planner - Calendar



    This widget displays to-do tasks and today's events. You can add an event by double-clicking on a day. You can see more options when right-clicking the widget. This widget is presently available in Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages.
  6. Eject Me



    Eject Me widget helps you to place an eject button on your desktop. It will open and close your optical drive. To move this widget more easily on windows, hold down the ctrl key, click and drag.
  7. Gas Alert Savings



    The Gas Alert Savings (GAS) widget help you find the lowest gas prices in your area.
  8. Sun Clock



    With the help of Sun Clock you can view a map of the world that indicates the current position of light and darkness.
  9. Multi Calendar



    Multi Calender shows the current date on your desktop according to three calender systems; Gregorian, Persian and Hijri. You could change the size, color, font and opacity of the widget to perfectly blend it into the desktop wallpaper.
  10. Web Radio



    Web Radio widget helps you add, edit and delete your favorite web radio stations. It stores unlimited radio stations. You can share your favorite radio stations to others.
  11. Zipper



    This widget helps you by compressing ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR/GZIP and TAR/BZIP2 and decompressing ZIP, 7ZIP, TAR/GZIP, TAR/BZIP2, RAR, Z, CAB, ARJ, CHM, LZH, HXS, RPM, CPIO and DEB files.
  12. ImageView



    Any image dragged onto this widget's window can be displayed. This widget can produce several copies so that they can be viewed at the same time.
  13. Smart Wake



    Smart Wake lets you set alarms to go off on specific days of week. It has an option to automatically unmute the computer when an alarm goes off. You can hide this widget after you set the alarm.
  14. Scribbler



    Scribbler is must have tool for those who do a lot of copying and pasting. This stores pieces of text, URLs and file locations.
  15. WebImages



    This widget allows the users to keep tabs on any image URL put into it. It is particularly suitable for monitoring dynamically updated image URLs.
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Comments (6)
#1 by louie jerome, Jun 13, 2008
These are amazing and very interesting. I come back again and read more thoroughly when I have more time. Thanks.
#2 by IcyCucky, Jun 13, 2008
This is wonderful. I didn't know Yahoo has so many widgets.
#3 by AJ Garcia, Jun 14, 2008
This is interesting. thanks :)
#4 by Alexa Gates, Jun 14, 2008
I think this article is amazing! i especially like the gas wigget!
#5 by Dee Huff, Jun 21, 2008
I've often wondered what a widget was, and now I know.
#6 by valli, Jun 21, 2008
Thank you everybody for reading.
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