Konfabulator – Now for Windows
One of my favorite toys for OS X, Konfabulator, is a nifty little application that adds configurable widgets to your desktop. Useful widgets might display weather conditions, a calendar, to-do lists, RSS feeds, or application status for things like iTunes. And of course there are any number of widgets that are of dubious use such as the one the floats a submarine across your desktop. And best of all for the other 95% of the world, it is now available for Windows (think Windows 95 Active Desktop if it didn’t crash your system). The Windows version seems to be nearly identical to the OS X version and is compatible with many of the existing widgets. It seems that the ones that are excluded use mac-specific features and would be of no use on Windows anyway.
I would highly recommend that you give it a test drive. Graphically, many of the widgets are really gorgeous supporting alpha blending and anti-aliasing so they work seamlessly with your desktop with glows and shadows.
Developers will the keen to the fact that they are completely built with JavaScript making them easy to create for nearly any web designer—write your own!