Widgets are tiny nice-looking programs that can do all sorts of interesting stuff ranging from the addition of a simple desktop clock or weather tool to a feature-rich video player. In many cases the purpose of a desktop widget is to bring functionality of the website (or at least part of it) right to your desktop. There are several platforms that can bring widgets to your PC, below I present to you some of the bigger and better ones.

Yahoo Widget Engine

Yahoo Widget Engine is incredibly cool, light-weight, easy to use and totally free tool from Yahoo which can turn your desktop into a wonderland for your mouse cursor. By using it you can install all sorts of widgets (aka Yahoo Widgets) which are small resource-friendly programs which can be either

• a tool to play around on your desktop, i.e. alarm clock, calculator, games, battery life indicator, interactive memory meter, remote control to your media player and etc, OR