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.
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Sys Monitor

It monitors all the local system information like CPU, memory, Hard Drive, battery, network, volume etc.
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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.
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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.
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Net Monitor

Net Monitor helps you show your current network traffic using WMI on windows and netstat on Mac.
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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.
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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.
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Gas Alert Savings

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













June 13th, 2008 at 5:44 am
These are amazing and very interesting. I come back again and read more thoroughly when I have more time. Thanks.
June 13th, 2008 at 6:24 am
This is wonderful. I didn’t know Yahoo has so many widgets.
June 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
This is interesting. thanks
June 14th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I think this article is amazing! i especially like the gas wigget!
June 21st, 2008 at 10:29 am
I’ve often wondered what a widget was, and now I know.
June 21st, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Thank you everybody for reading.