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RSS widgetYahoo! grabs Konfabulator
News has acquired software "widget" engine Konfabulator in a move to spur third-party developers to devise new applications for the internet giant's services. Yahoo! Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine that lets people run very small... [25 Jul 2005]
Cheat Sheet: Widgets
Cheat Sheet Widget. In the last Tiger update, widgets were blocked from auto-installing.will also see the addition of a widget manager and a sort of containment facility for previewing a widget's behaviour before installing it. [05 Jul 2005]
The Minority Report: The state of Mac OS X security
Comment The unwelcome news about the widget vulnerability served to raise the profile of OS X's security. According to an alert posted on the Full Disclosure mailing lists, an attacker could write a malicious widget that would run invisibly in the... [03 Jun 2005]
Apple: Widget worries persist
News An attacker could write a malicious widget for Mac OS X 1.4 Tiger that would run invisibly in the background and hijack a user's "sudo" (or administrative) privileges on a system, according to an alert distributed on the Full Disclosure mailing... [23 May 2005]
Widgets: Tiger's porn scam gateway?
News One widget, he says, will automatically install itself on users' desktops when his 'Zaptastic' website is visited using Apple's Safari browser. The funny thing is that once that widget is there, according to Apple, you CANNOT remove it. [09 May 2005]
Mac developer gets out of Tiger's cage
News With Apple threatening to push his product aside, longtime Mac developer Arlo Rose has moved his Konfabulator over to Windows. Back in June, Apple announced that it would offer a feature called Dashboard as part of its next version of Mac OS X... [05 Nov 2004]
Apple's Tiger: 'It's out, it's not finished and it will be copied'
News Do they expect to see Longhorn come fully equipped with MS Widget? Apple's forthcoming fifth version of its OS, Tiger, is banking on its open-source heritage to spare it from the security woes that have dogged Microsoft. [01 Sep 2004]
WaveLink Client Widget Enhancements for SPT 1740 or other Palm/OS PDA
White Paper Palm/OS and Symbol Technologies, Inc.have brought together an exciting platform for portable computing. This platform, the Symbol SPT 1740 portable computer, is based on a robust and well-established pen-based hardware platform merged with the... [24 Feb 2004]
Counting Objects in C++
White Paper For example, suppose you have a class Widget, and you'd like to have a way to find out at run time how many Widget objects exist. An approach that's both easy to implement and that gives the right answer is to create a static counter in Widget... [24 Feb 2004]
Inexpensive and Easy E-commerce
White Paper Let's say you want to sell a widget (which could be a book you've written, a product you make, or whatever). First, let's consider expense. The official" way to accept payments over the web is to open a 'merchant account' with a credit card... [24 Feb 2004]
Object-Oriented Design with TeleUSE Templates
White Paper A template contains information on the widget hierarchy so that all instances of the template inherit the same resource settings. A template is an autonomous object that includes one or more widgets with certain resources set to desired values. [24 Feb 2004]
Eyelet GUI (Graphical User Interface)
White Paper With system code requirements as low as 128K and a full-featured widget set, an Eyelet GUI defies traditional trends in user interfaces by providing advanced functionality with very little system memory. [24 Feb 2004]
Weather predicting applets bound for Windows
News Konfabulator comes with 15 widgets, and the site's widget gallery offers more than 450 made by Konfabulator enthusiasts. A website that offers desktop applets for the Macintosh desktop is gearing up to provide similar gadgets for Windows - and with... [17 Dec 2003]
UK manufacturing must compete using service
News But manufacturers have to take a wider view of what they're doing - it's not just about a better widget or producing on cost, it's about service excellence. More than half of manufacturers in the UK say their capital investment will increase next... [25 Nov 2003]
What future IM?
Comment For example, an engineering company which needs to buy a number of standard widgets, could use buddy lists for each particular widget, send out a request to those on the list who are available and then see who can deliver in the required time frame. [21 Oct 2003]
