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	Konfabulator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Konfabulator is a freeware JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X and Windows which runs small applications called Widgets (note the uppercase "W" in Widget; this is the proper use of capitalization when referring to Konfabulator's applets), and hence is part of a class of software applications called widget engines.
		Konfabulator was the first widget engine to provide a feature that could quickly bring all open Widgets to the top of the desktop.
		In response to the demand for Konfabulator, and to provide a proper information source for Widget developers (some of which was scraping web sites for information for their Widgets), the Konfabulator development team decided to sell Konfabulator to Yahoo!.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Konfabulator (1975 words)

	Konfabulator: The Beginning Widget Writer's Guide
		Konfabulator, by Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke, is a Mac OS X application comprising an XML parser, a JavaScript interpreter, and a runtime engine that can get your images composited onto the screen, call out to external AppleScripts or ``Command Line Interface'' tools, fetch data by URL, and interact with some select system interfaces.
		Konfabulator will work with whatever format images you have, at least (from my tests) gif, jpeg, png, tiff, and pdf; though my understanding is that K won't draw animated image formats, e.g., animated gifs, mng, or Quicktime movies.
		Konfabulator comes with a selection of widgets which perform a variety of tasks, any of which would be a good place to start – just remember that although the XML and JavaScript in these widgets is freely available for reuse, the art assets are not and they must not be redistributed.
	www.scottcollins.net /konfabulator/konfabulator_flat.shtml (7565 words)

	JD on MX: Konfabulator vs Central
		Konfabulator vs Central: Nitesh Dhanjani at O'Reilly considers the Apple Dashboard brouhaha, and asks what predated Konfabulator.
		Konfabulator did announce six weeks before Central, but it's obvious that both had been underway for quite awhile before that, and that both take slightly different approaches to this "desktop persistence, network awareness" goal.
		Konfabulator was not the first with this idea.
	weblogs.macromedia.com /jd/archives/2004/06/konfabulator_vs.cfm (356 words)

	Geek Patrol: Special Patrol: Arlo Rose on Tiger's Dashboard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Arlo Rose is half the team behind the popular extensible desktop utility Konfabulator.
		Konfabulator is a runtime engine that lets you run "widgets", which can do basically anything you can conceive of, from fetching stock quotes to keeping up on your favourite forum to monitoring the weather and so on.
		It's a subset of Konfabulator, and is modal.
	www.geekpatrol.ca /archives/2004/06/28/specialpatrolarlo.php (1231 words)

	Daring Fireball: Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
		If you’re still willing to argue that Apple should have bought Konfabulator as the basis for Dashboard, you’re implicitly arguing that Apple should be more concerned about being nice to third-party developers than they are about the quality of the engineering undergirding their platform.
		Konfabulator is not a lightweight or small-footprint environment — every Konfabulator widget runs as a separate process, with its own runtime environment in memory.
		Konfabulator is a software platform; Rose and Perry decided upon a rather closed platform model: the only way even to run a Konfabulator widget is to purchase a license to the runtime.
	daringfireball.net /2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator (3228 words)

	XPThemes.com Forums: Thread "Konfabulator for Windows vs. DesktopX" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Konfabulator came out in 2003 on MacOS X. Its lead developer, Arlo Rose, had seen its last effort, Kaleidoscope evaporate as MacOS X did not support the APIs that Kaleidoscope required.
		When Konfabulator announced it was going to come out with a Windows version back in November of 2003, it meant that eventually, the two would be able to be compared apples to apples (no pun intended).
		Konfabulator has those a plenty (no matter what you say, or what you may pull out of wincustomize in 99.8% of the case the widgets for Konfabulator are better looking and more refined), makes them easy to use, and that is all it does...
	www.xpthemes.com /forums.asp?MID=19&CMID=37&AID=34276 (6799 words)

	Daring Fireball: Konfabulous
		Given that Arlo Rose was significantly responsible for Kaleidoscope, Konfabulator widgets are, unsurprisingly, heavy on the visual appeal.
		Konfabulator is clearly geared to appeal to the Kaleidoscope crowd: tweakers who prefer to spend their time hacking pixels in Photoshop than hacking their actual source code.
		The Konfabulator widget format is open and documented, but that doesn’t mean it’s a pleasure to write.
	daringfireball.net /2003/02/konfabulous (1019 words)

	Russell Beattie Notebook » I Want Konfabulator Mobile!
		Posted on Monday, November 8th, 2004 11:17 PM I’ve written about Konfabulator before, but I just snagged the Windows version of Konfabulator and I have to say how freakin’ cool it is. It’s like functional eye-candy.
		Konfabulator is an excellent program albeit a tad wastefull on the memory.
		Konfabulator might be great, but no one has really made something spectacular with it.
	www.russellbeattie.com /notebook/1008151.html (1138 words)

	.: UNEASYsilence :. » Blog Archive » Yahoo! widget celebration - Konfabulator widgets
		Due to the recent aquisition of Konfabulator by Yahoo, the number of Konfab users has probably increased.
		Konfabulator’s official Widget Gallery - Currently there are about 646 widgets convientantly organized and indexed.
		Konfabulator Widgets - Konfabulator widgets inspired by Apple’s Dashboard widgets.
	www.uneasysilence.com /archive/2005/07/3795 (343 words)

	Russell Beattie Notebook » Great Artists Steal? Apple Developers Should Walk Out
		I remember when I first read about Konfabulator about a year ago I was amazed at how cool the app was and how ingenious it was as well.
		As others have pointed out, Konfabulator is pretty much a version of Desk Accessories (see Hertzfeld on the development of the IDEA starting in 1981 … http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintoshandstory=Desk_Ornaments.txtandtopic=Software%20DesignandsortOrder=Sort%20by%20Dateanddetail=medium).
		The outrage over Apple "stealing" Konfabulator is entirely misplaced because if Apple stole Konfabulator, you might as well say Apple also stole browser technology or zeroconf (the technology behind Rendezvous) or PDF or a host of other basic technologies that Apple built upon and made better.
	www.russellbeattie.com /notebook/1007900.html (3911 words)

	Dogpile - Web Search: windows konfabulator
		Konfabulator has just been released for Windows, much to the delight of its many supporters.
		Konfabulator goes Windows: Interesting, the Mac desktop widgets will be going to Windows.
		Konfabulator is an engine that runs in the background and updates various widgets placed on your desktop.
	www.dogpile.com /info.dogpl.toolbar/search/web/windows+konfabulator (307 words)

	Mike Rundle: Apple to Arlo Rose and Konfabulator: Screw You!
		Konfabulator is a Javascript/XML runtime engine that lets you run mini-applications written in JavaScript called "widgets" on your desktop.
		Apple didn't complain when Konfabulator stole the Desk Accessories from them, and Konfabulator's developers shouldn't be upset now that Apple has brought Desk Accessories back into their OS after years of absence...
		Konfabulator looked the way it did because it used Apple technologies (transparent windows and other Apple UI designs) so it makes sense that Apple's would look similar.
	phark.typepad.com /phark/2004/06/apple_to_arlo_r.html (3361 words)

	G4 - Feature - Leo's Pick: Konfabulator (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Fast-forward to today and Mac OS X. Konfabulator is a shareware program that's putting the same kind of power into users' hands.
		Konfabulator's creators, Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke, call their program "a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X." Users call it a cool way to put widgets on their Mac desktop.
		Konfabulator fulfills the promise that Microsoft's Active Desktop never delivered on, and it does it on the Mac.
	www.g4tv.com /screensavers/features/42308/Leos_Pick_Konfabulator.html (373 words)

	Neowin.net > Konfabulator Price
		I've been using the new version of Konfabulator for a week or so now, and it just said the whole speil about purchasing it and such.
		Just note that Konfabulator might cost money, it may have an established userbase, and lots of widgets, however, it is not necessarily the best widget application.
		I thought Konfabulator was freeware (but AppRocket is $9) I hadn't checked how much Konfabulator was.
	www.neowin.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t244823.html (1457 words)

	An App The Mac Can Brag About - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Konfabulator was created by Arlo Rose and Perry Clarke, two software developers who met while working as Sun Microsystems (nasdaq: SUNW - news - people).
		Konfabulator, with widgets displaying stock tickers, the phase of the Moon, news headlines, the local weather and the time in three different time zones.
		The Konfabulator program costs $25 to register, but widgets are free, and you can run as many as you want at once.
	www.forbes.com /home_europe/2003/12/15/cx_ah_1215tentech.html (861 words)

	Dashboard, Konfabulator differences becoming clearer \| MacMinute News
		In his article, Gruber explains the behind the scenes differences of the two pieces of software: "Konfabulator is a self-contained JavaScript runtime engine, using its own JavaScript interpretter.
		Konfabulator UI layouts are specified in a custom XML format...
		Dashboard gadgets are indeed scripted using JavaScript, the same language used by Konfabulator, but Dashboard uses the JavaScript engine that's built into the system.
	www.macminute.com /2004/06/30/gruber (200 words)

	macosxhints - Konfabulator - A tool that can do nearly anything...
		But what sets Konfabulator apart from these is the integration (all running widgets are available from a menubar icon), the appearance of the widgets themselves (they support transparency and shadows and unique window shapes), and the extensible nature of Konfabulator (it's relatively easy to write new widgets).
		Konfabulator is one of those truly unique pieces of programming that seem to come along every once in a great while.
		Konfabulator v.1.0 had a horrible memory leak to it, but it has since been fixed in v1.0.2 as far as I can tell in my testing.
	www.macosxhints.com /article.php?story=20030310052443681 (1436 words)

	TMO Reports - Konfabulator Inventors Not Flattered by "Apple Rip-off" \|\| The Mac Observer
		The co-inventor of the Mac shareware widget application Konfabulator is more than a little mad that Apple's new Dashboard feature that will be part of Mac OS X Tiger is so similar to his product.
		Konfabulator is a US$25 Macintosh program that runs small JavaScript programs called Widgets, which perform various tasks from monitoring weather, news, sports and stocks to adding newly designed clocks, tasks bars, search banners and more.
		The guys at Konfabulator must be the happiest guys in the world for so much publicity and a whole year to sell a program that at least I never heard of before.
	www.macobserver.com /article/2004/06/29.2.shtml (6281 words)

	XPThemes.com Forums: Thread "Konfabulator for Windows" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		But the introduction of Konfabulator on the Mac has taken the cake when it comes to the media assuming that something on the Mac is unique.
		And Konfabulator would deserve a lot of credit for this innovation if it weren't for the inconvenient fact that DesktopX preceded it by THREE YEARS.
		Konfabulator could be more accurately described as DesktopX for the Mac (or the closest thing to it).
	www.xpthemes.com /forums.asp?MID=19&CMID=19&AID=4472 (1901 words)

	jkOnTheRun: Konfabulator Kounterfeit- Kapsules
		Konfabulator has generated a lot of excitement and rightly so.
		Uuuuum, yeah, it looks a helluvalot like Konfabulator, because it appears to be a direct ripoff...
		On the other hand, konfabulator runs flawlessly for days and maybe crashed one-two times on my box (and then only widgets closed).
	jkontherun.blogs.com /jkontherun/2004/11/konfabulator_ko.html (771 words)

	Mac OS X Software Updates and Downloads – VersionTracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to.
		What sets Konfabulator apart from other scripting applications is that it takes full advantage of Apple's Quartz rendering.
		Toss in some sliding and fading, and these little guys are right at home in Mac OS X. The format for these Widgets is completely open and easy to learn so creating your own Widgets is an extremely easy task.
	www.versiontracker.com /dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18302 (952 words)

	Neowin.net > Kapsules or Konfabulator
		IMO Konfabulator is better, but hey just download the two and see which one you like.
		Konfabulator is great, simple to use and a widespan of widgets.
		normally id say kapsules since it's free, but so is konfabulator and since it went free the amount of widgets have started booming.
	www.neowin.net /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t374890.html (558 words)

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