If you have Object Desktop (www.objectdesktop.com) then you know that DesktopX 2.2 is just about ready to go. It's been in development for half a year now and for good reason - lots of cool new features and enhancements.
DesktopX lets you enhance your existing Windows desktop with objects. These objects can do all kinds of interesting things (both visually and functionally). You can combine them together and export them as entire desktops (themes) or export them as mini-programs called "widgets" (or share the objects themselves with others.
In the past year or so, "widgets" have started to get popular. On the Mac, there's a program called Konfabulator that does widgets very well. Apple is jumping into the act in MacOS Tiger with "Dashboard". On the PC there's Samurize, Kapulses, and probably others I'm forgetting.
But before all of them, there was DesktopX. What makes DesktopX special is that even end users can make their own objects. Of course, there's a downside, a lot of the stuff that gets uploaded can be a little..rough. We're working to push "certification" so that you can find the more polished widgets/objects/themes more quickly.
However, one thing is certain, pretty much every kind of widget you can imagine exists on DesktopX in a pretty mature, solid form.
The article below answers the question "Where are the DesktopX equivalents of the widgets shown on the Konfabulator home page?"
