July 04, 2004
Konfabulator widgets in action
The two objects I seem to be using the most (at least, initially) from the 650-odd Konfabulators available are the mini-iTunes remote and the clock. Of course, I already have a clock but there is a gorgeous representation of the Sterling wrist watch that I had to have on my desktop. Note the little row of stars just underneath the name of the artist. That lets you set the rating of the tune so that it either gets skipped (when you rate it one or two) or played more frequently--depending on the settings of your Party Shuffle. Damn nice integration.
I should probably figure out how to do some of my own watches. Though I could see in Javascript the animation of the hands could prove a bit problematic. Worth looking into.
It's interesting that I'm finally hitting the limits of my laptops speed (it's an 867Mhz, 15" TiBook with 512Mb). Actually, I may be hitting the memory limitation (I have very little free) now that I'm doing some real work, doing a little graphics layout (so running Photoshop), browsing the Web, listening to iTunes, downloading music with LimeWire, and running Konfabulator widgets simultaneously.
I think I need to up the RAM to the maximum of 1Gb. Anyone for a couple of fast 256Mb chips for a Powerbook??
Posted by artandscience at July 4, 2004 07:00 AM