i have been using a couple of konfabulator widgets for a while now, yahoo weather and atomic clock. some of the others have a certain novelty value to them, like the meatwad widget that can dance or roll around your desktop and emit sound bites. but is this something i really want to keep on my desktop for more than a minute or two? no.
but i finally found one that is really cool. its called tint screen and it does what you'd think it would. you pick a color and then you can tint your screen by clicking the widget. and i guess thats nice if you want to view the web through rose colored glasses. but what i like about this widget is the ability to choose an image as your "tint." naturally i've chosen a hello kitty image.
i've never liked the effect when my desktop icons, widgets, or whatever covered up my choice of wallpaper, and using this widget as a wallpaper of sorts solves this problem. i've set the "tint opacity" very low so that everything on my desktop is still plainly visible and i can browse the web (and write this post) easily even though i am typing this while a huge hello kitty head is staring at me. (it is probably less distracting if you use a picture that is mostly white or light colored.)
here are some screen shots:
also, you can use an image as the widget (the little charmy kitty in the lower right of my desktop is actually the tint widget, i just click that to turn tint on or off)
and another feature is that you can set this tint to activate like a screensaver and appear after you've been idle for a while.
konfabulator widgets hello+kitty
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but i finally found one that is really cool. its called tint screen and it does what you'd think it would. you pick a color and then you can tint your screen by clicking the widget. and i guess thats nice if you want to view the web through rose colored glasses. but what i like about this widget is the ability to choose an image as your "tint." naturally i've chosen a hello kitty image.
i've never liked the effect when my desktop icons, widgets, or whatever covered up my choice of wallpaper, and using this widget as a wallpaper of sorts solves this problem. i've set the "tint opacity" very low so that everything on my desktop is still plainly visible and i can browse the web (and write this post) easily even though i am typing this while a huge hello kitty head is staring at me. (it is probably less distracting if you use a picture that is mostly white or light colored.)
here are some screen shots:
also, you can use an image as the widget (the little charmy kitty in the lower right of my desktop is actually the tint widget, i just click that to turn tint on or off)
and another feature is that you can set this tint to activate like a screensaver and appear after you've been idle for a while.
konfabulator widgets hello+kitty
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