I downloaded a copy of Konfabulator for my Windows 2000 blogging workstation. Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine that lets you place widgets on your Mac OSX or Windows desktop. There are a number of neat widgets available and creation of others is simple if you know JavaScript, XML, and a scripting language that runs on your platform of choice.

I've already found a couple of uses for Konfabulator, so I'll probably pay the $25 shareware fee in order to keep using it past the end of the evaluation period.

One widget that I didn't expect to enjoy as much is the Picture Frame. Every five minutes, it picks a random image out of the photo archive on my local Linux server. I haven't seen a lot of these photos in a long time.

I tried to take a screen shot with my copy of Paint Shop Pro, but it didn't capture the widgets and I'm not sure why. Hopefully, I'll figure it out and update this story.