 yahoo widgets was a free application platform for mac os x and microsoft windows. the software was previously called konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company yahoo in 2005 it was rebranded. the name konfabulator was subsequently reinstated as the name of the underlying rendering engine. the engine uses a javascript runtime environment combined with an xml interpreter to run small applications referred to as widgets, and hence is part of a class of software applications called widget engines. ==features== yahoo widget engine includes some default widgets to get users started, including a weather widget, a digital clock, and a calendar among other things. some of the most downloaded ones include a world timezone clock, dedicated countdown timers, simple rss feed readers, and webcam viewers. each widget runs in its own system process, separate from other types of widgets and the main konfabulator system process itself, thus improving the stability of the software application as a whole. should a problem occur with a konfabulator widget requiring it to be shut down, that particular widget can be shut down without affecting other widgets or the main konfabulator application. a disadvantage of doing this, however, is the extra computer memory needed for each process to run. ===heads-up display/konsposÃ©=== yahoo widgets provides a feature that can quickly bring all op
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