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2:00PM Angus Kidman | IceTV has updated its Yahoo Widget, which lets you update recording schedules from your PC. New features in the latest release, which mirrors settings in the general web client, including setting recording quality and dodging repeats. [IceTV]
IceTV Updates Yahoo Widget
2:00PM Angus Kidman | IceTV has updated its Yahoo Widget, which lets you update recording schedules from your PC. New features in the latest release, which mirrors settings in the general web client, including setting recording quality and dodging repeats. [IceTV] 
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GNOME-Do Adds Docklets To App Launching Bar
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Linux: If you’re using GNOME-Do and not using the up-to-date repository for the app launcher, you really should be. That’s where you’ll find goodies like the newest “Docklets”, helpful widgets that respond to both clicks and text commands. More »
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Kludgets Brings OS X-Style Widgets To Windows Desktops
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: The creator of Kludgets, a new open-source widget engine, admits it’s not quite pretty, but it “copies the best features” of similar gadgets on OS X, Yahoo, and Google platforms. More »
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8:30AM Angus Kidman | One of the challenges with the local release of the Chumby has been the relative lack of Australian-centric gadgets for the Wi-Fi-enabled Internet thingummy. Local distributor Internode is running a competition to encourage development, but even without that incentive Lifehacker’s technical guru Kaan has come to the party with a Lifehacker-specific widget, listing all the latest headlines from your favourite technology productivity site. If you’ve got a Chumby already (or have one on your Christmas list), be sure to check it out. Thanks Kaan!
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Check Out The Lifehacker Chumby Widget
8:30AM Angus Kidman | One of the challenges with the local release of the Chumby has been the relative lack of Australian-centric gadgets for the Wi-Fi-enabled Internet thingummy. Local distributor Internode is running a competition to encourage development, but even without that incentive Lifehacker’s technical guru Kaan has come to the party with a Lifehacker-specific widget, listing all the latest headlines from your favourite technology productivity site. If you’ve got a Chumby already (or have one on your Christmas list), be sure to check it out. Thanks Kaan!
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SysMetrix Puts System Data In A Configurable Clock
9:00PM Kevin Purdy | Windows only: SysMetrix gives you a desktop widget you can skin, configure, and tweak to show you the time, your system info, email updates, and other information in a seemingly endless number of configurations. The system monitor comes with a variety of built-in themes, ranging from analogue clocks with built-in mini-gauges to screen-length toolbar strips, that you can add your own sliders, histograms, read-outs, and other tools to. The tool supports POP-based email checking, and can work with the Motherboard Monitor tool if you’re looking for temperatures, fan speeds, and the like. SysMetrix is a free download for Windows systems only. Read on for a look at what you can tweak on a SysMetrix clock. More »
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Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor Detects Wireless Networks
6:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux: Free application Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is a cross-platform Wi-Fi tool that displays available networks on a very cool radar map. More specifically, the app searches for Wi-Fi networks, displays strength, detects rogue access points, and helps you tweak your network for the best signal. The downside: Xirrus Wi-Fi monitor is only available in widget/gadget/desklet form. That means that in order to use it, on XP and OS X you have to install the Yahoo Widget framework, on Linux you have to install the Desklet framework, and on Vista you’ll need to re-enable the sidebar gadgets. That’s all somewhat of a bummer considering the whole widget craze generally went out the door circa-2006. However, Xirrus remains a worthwhile application with an unquestionably fun execution. Wi-Fi Tools [Xirrus via WebWorkerDaily] More »
IntelliScreen Adds Widgets to iPhone’s “Slide to Unlock” Screen
7:35AM Kevin Purdy | Add email, calendar updates, RSS feeds, and more to your “Slide to unlock” home screen with IntelliScreen, a free application for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches. Similar to the widgets of Windows Mobile’s “Today” screen, the app lets you order and customise what info, and how much of it, you see on your wake-up screen, including new SMS messages and local weather conditions. Better still, you can bring up that email message or check out that feed item in Safari by swiping over the widget and pressing the button that pops up. The app’s makers warn that IntelliScreen has run into restoration-required conflicts with a few other third-party apps, so back up anything you can’t afford to wipe clean. Intrigued enough to try unlocking your iPhone/touch? Check out our guide to unlocking with ZiPhone. IntelliScreen [via Just Another iPhone Blog] More »
Top 10 Ways to Trick Out Your Desktop
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | For something that you look at every day of your working life, your computer desktop doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. That’s too bad, considering that the desktop can do a lot more than display wallpaper and hold shortcut icons. From widgets to workflows, from calendars to computer stats and beyond, you can do a whole lot on your desktop without manually starting up a single program. Hit the jump for our top 10 list of applications and tweaks that make your desktop a truly useful place to land. More »
Install Google Gadgets and Web Widgets in Linux
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Linux only: Previously-posted Linux widget engine Screenlets can convert and run Google Gadgets and other web-based widgets on the desktop in its latest version, adding thousands of mini-apps to its menu. You’ll need to add Screenlets’ Launchpad repository to your sources and install the latest version, which the Screenlets home page (and the Tombuntu blog) helpfully walks you through. Once you’re up and running with Screenlets, simply hit “Install,” choose “Web Widget,” and you’ll get a link to each supported database’s catalogue page, as well as basic instructions on installing. With more than 45,000 to choose from in Google’s database alone, there’s likely a great and useful widget waiting to find your Linux desktop. Screenlets [via Tombuntu] More »
