Yahoo Widget Engine, Formerly Known As Konfabulator

I started using Konfabulator a couple years ago and fell in love with being able to have these widgets on the desktop which provide all kinds of information. For example, there’s weather, clocks, search tools and more. The best part is that it’s free, looks really nice on the desktop and is easy to install and setup.

Then, Yahoo acquired Konfabulator and it became Yahoo Widget Engine. No offense Yahoo, but Konfabulator has a much nicer ring to it and it will always be Konfabulator to me. I still even type in www.konfabulator.com in the browser, only because that is the name that stuck with me and sometimes I forget what sub-domain Yahoo has put it at.

It’s been several months since I’ve kept up with what’s happening with YWE, but just recently I decided to check it out again and see if anything has changed. It turns out they are releasing a new version of YWE on March 22, which happens to be tomorrow! I’m really excited because I’d like to know what they’ve been working on since it’s been quite a while since they released anything.

My current desktop on my desktop computer (running Windows) has a few widgets. I don’t like to have too many because it just clutters the desktop, which is just as bad as desktops that are full of all those icons. Click the preview on the right to view the full screenshot.