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Saturday, February 22, 2003
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I used Macs for years -- nearly a decade -- and finally gave them up for a host of reasons. But I recently had my first encounter with OS X and the command-line interface. It's cool. Now I find this Konfabulator thing that can create almost any sort of widget within the GUI. You certainly can't do that with Windows.Things change -- what was old is new again. The cycle goes around and maybe, now that I don't have to give up my manhood to use a Mac (we all know real men use GUIs by choice, ready to dive at a moment's notice to the command-line) I should re-evaluate. I certainly don't have any delusions about Windoze -- the OS that's just (barely) good enough.
There's still that little problem with the serious price premium (and no, I don't recognize any "status" premium -- I don't give a damn.) I've got to justify the machine on its merits. But OS X is starting to look more like a winner every day...
Konfabulator is here, Konfabulator is here!!! - Konfabulator is a Macintosh program-thing that works in OSX and was created by some Sun engineers. It's javascript, and it works with XML. If you have a Mac with OSX then just got to the site now. HURRY!. You can try it for free, and then it's $25. Konfabulator lets you create desktop widgets, which can do anything you want (i.e. have a little clock, or calender, or news). The site already has a bunch of free widgets that you can download and try out.
Leo Laporte of TechTV says these widgets are like what Active Desktop was supposed to be for Windows, "except this works." Konfabulator uses quartz technology (which is built into OSX, which allows the widget to be semi-transparent, or to fade out and other really slick looking stuff).
Oh did I mention that it uses XML and can do news feeds? Let's see, what could that mean? I wonder how long it will take before someone creates a widget for news feeds? Not long, because it is apparently pretty easy to write the widgets, even if you aren't a programmer. Goddammit. I need a Macintosh!
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