Yahoo Widgets for MAC OSX and Windows
Widgets that started to come up in blogs and web sites have now found the path so that they can be used on our computer. Yahoo widgets is a Yahoo undertaking especially for widgets that provides widgets for both MAC and Windows operating system.They have a large number of cool widgets but the only thing that I don't like about Yahoo widgets that they don't provide Yahoo widgets for bloggers and internet websites.
Yahoo Widgets currently have 4242 great widgets in its database which could be downloaded and installed. The procedure for Yahoo Widgets installation on your PC is listed below:
- To use Yahoo Widgets, you need to install Yahoo Widgets software on your PC. But Yahoo widgets software is compatible only with Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows 2000 SP 4 and Mac OS X 10.3.9 or greater.
- The important point in the installation process of this software is that it did not show any installation interface on my PC and
for one time I thought that the software is corrupt. But when I tried to download a widget from the site, it went onto the next stage indicating that the software is installed on the PC. - Next, choose your widget and click on the "Get Widget" button on the right bottom corner of the widget, next click on the "Continue" button for confirmation of download.
- Downloading will start and wait for it to be completed
- As soon as the downloading finishes, a window will open in front of you asking you to Accept their End User Agreement. Read it carefully and if you accept it, click on the "I Accept" button.
- Now, another window opens up asking you for confirmation that you really want to use the widget that you have downloaded on your PC. Click on the "Use Widget" button and you will be through.
On looking at the download process, I noted that Yahoo Widgets are really big in size so they are suitable only for websites and blogs.
TOP WIDGET AT Yahoo Widgets
Yahoo Maps - I love it: Well I just found this Yahoo Widget and its just great. You can view each and every portion of this world with Yahoo Map Widget. If you have a dream of seeing the whole world than this is a must have widget. You can look at each and every street of the world and even pin point your home with this widget. The buildings, the lakes, the trees, the mountains, the lakes etc. looks exactly as they look in real life and is almost equivalent to as if you are watching them in front of you. I found this widget the most useful and a must have widget from Yahoo although there are thousands of many useful widgets such as news readers. Here is a screen shot of My House as viewed from Yahoo Widget:
It looks like Yahoo has some great widgets but the fact is that most of them just don't work as expected. This can be understood as most of these widgets are user submitted widgets and many of them are made for the sole purpose to increase their site's traffic. But Yahoo must try to make widgets available for bloggers and websites as they are the largest users of widgets and it can really boost up their market share.
