konfabulator - It's Free

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-07-27 12:23am

Hi don't know if anyone has posted this yet, if so sorry for being redundant.Yahoo just brought out konfabulator the desktop widgets software. Used to cost $20 dollars approximately but now Yahoo is hawking it to everyone as a free download.
http://www.konfabulator.com/

Does anyone here use konfabulator? I haven't downloaded it yet but it seems to be an windows version of the apple dashboard.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-07-27 01:11am

Downloading now, I heard but hadn't gotten around to getting it.

How easy is it to use? As good as Dashboard? If so I'll install it on my mother's PowerBook as well as mine. She was impressed with the feature on Tiger but is a cheapskate like me

And any convenience I can give her means one less phone call to me for computer help :s

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2005-07-27 01:27am

What IS it? [/Resident Evil]

brothersinarm · Post by **brothersinarm** » 2005-07-27 10:50am

Well I just downloaded and installed it and it's absolutely wonderful! I doesn't eat up as much memory as I thought it would.

What IS it?

It's basically the same as Apple's dashboard and allows you to put items (clocks, calendars, weather reports) right on to the desktop.

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-07-27 03:35pm

Looks nice and shiny so far...

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-07-27 05:18pm

D/L and liking it but MS anti spyware reports

Spyware Scan Details
Start Date: 2005-07-27 22:34:19
End Date: 2005-07-27 22:38:52
Total Time: 4 mins 33 secs

Detected Threats

XferPro Trojan Downloader more information...
Status: Removed
Severe threat - Severe-risk items have an extreme potential for harm, such as a security exploit, and should be removed.

Infected registry keys/values detected
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\.xx
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\.xx Backup
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\.xx File.Xxe
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\classes\.xx Content Type application/x-xxe-encoded

This may be a FP, TDS-3 do not report any trojan but it is discountinued and not updated anymore so.

Also S&D did not find anything.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-07-28 02:10am

Okay is innocent of the stuff I found above.

Installed it on a clean system and did a bunch of test, no issues

Damn nice little program.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-07-28 08:26am

Alas, it is something of a memory pig. I run it at work to show a calendar, weather, traffic and a to-do list.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-08-03 04:52am

Eh, desktop applets are redundant- gnome panel applets and firefox extensions do everything I need (except traffic and details within a calender). Linux equivalent is karamba or gdesklets.