Comments on: Desktop Widgets for Boring Tasks http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Tue, 22 May 2012 15:13:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Gerald http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/comment-page-1/#comment-114375 Gerald Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:06:51 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/#comment-114375 Hello I have been doing some research about desktop widgets and came across your site. I'm not a techie but want to build a widget that will intergrate with my website. Is their any software out there that i can use to create widgets? Thanks Hello
I have been doing some research about desktop widgets and came across your site. I’m not a techie but want to build a widget that will intergrate with my website. Is their any software out there that i can use to create widgets? Thanks

]]> By: ewH http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/comment-page-1/#comment-24188 ewH Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:38:52 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/#comment-24188 Nice post, Cote. Dan McWeeney summed it up best to me when he said that widgets seem to be a solution searching for a problem. I think widgets have potential, but we need to search to find the problem first. Your ideas here are definitely a start in the right direction. Cheers, ewH Nice post, Cote.

Dan McWeeney summed it up best to me when he said that widgets seem to be a solution searching for a problem. I think widgets have potential, but we need to search to find the problem first. Your ideas here are definitely a start in the right direction.

Cheers,

ewH

]]> By: Charles Lowell http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/comment-page-1/#comment-24171 Charles Lowell Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:38:53 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/04/15/desktop-widgets-for-boring-tasks/#comment-24171 I agree heartily. Although, rather than being widgets stored on a dashboard somewhere, I think they should be something akin to "context-free dialogs" What I want is the ability to call up the expenses widget with a single keystroke, interact with it, and then it goes away. If you've already got a webservice front-end to your expense engine, doing that should be easy as hell. I agree heartily. Although, rather than being widgets stored on a dashboard somewhere, I think they should be something akin to "context-free dialogs"

What I want is the ability to call up the expenses widget with a single keystroke, interact with it, and then it goes away. If you've already got a webservice front-end to your expense engine, doing that should be easy as hell.

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