So that’s what IG in the URL stands for. It stands for iGoogle. Right, now I know. But a lick of paint and a few time-related visual themes do not a Netvibes maketh. It’s quite a departure for Google, to offer something unapologetically visual, seemingly at the expense – or at the very least in […]
Tag: web widgets
Sometimes, high-end software engineering is like high art – it’s not always easy to appreciate what the eye of the ‘artist’ sees. And so it is that a patent filing by Apple Inc. sort of bends my head in different directions as I try to find some actual, meaningful application for the proposed ‘active desktop’ […]
This whole web widget thing is well worth a while for Wayne to wonder about the where, what and why. On the one hand, how many widgets does one need? While on the other, what happens when widgets wave au revoir to the web and wonder on over to the ones’ Windows desktop? Or the […]