What's a widget?

Whats a widget?

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    A Widget is a small application that serves a specific need on your desktop, like showing the weather, giving you stock updates, tuning in to your favorite radio station... or even something as simple as showing you the phase of the moon. They're designed to not use normal windows, so the look very cool floating around on your desktop. Here's a desktop with a ton of Widgets on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Konfabulator_screenshot.jpg

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It's a thingamabob that goes in a whatchamacallit and makes the doohickey do it's thingy.

Star G

a white midget.

crishbk

I love my yahoo widget you can keep upto date on weather. view photos. and many many other things its actually pretty cool. you should try it out. http://widgets.yahoo.com/

♫tink3rs♫

I'd say it's a really cool name for a pet monkey or armadillo. I looked it up on dictionary.com and wikipedia.com for you, in case you wanted a more 'reasonable' answer. Here you go: Dictionary.com says: A small mechanical device or control; a gadget. An unnamed or hypothetical manufactured article. --------------------------------------… [Perhaps alteration of gadget.] Then there's: Widget From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Look up widget in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Widget may refer to: A placeholder name for any unspecified device or good, particularly as used by economists for an abstract commodity Widget (beer), the nitrogen widget in cans and bottles of beer A physically-inspired computer desktop accessory that is executed in a widget engine Widget (computing), a component of a graphical user interface that the user interacts with Widget (comics), a character in Marvel Comics Widget (TV series), a 1990's animated television series The Delta Widget, a name for the logo of Delta Air Lines A mascot for Armadillo Aerospace A male gremlin in Roald Dahl's The Gremlins A nickname for the New York World Journal Tribune Widgets (He-Man), the race of midget-like people in the cartoon series He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. [edit] See also Metasyntactic variable Gadget Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget"

tydlywnks

it's a thingy

Mimi Kitty

I think there is one hiding under my bed!

Kerilyn

Widget may refer to: A placeholder name for any unspecified device or good, particularly as used by economists for an abstract commodity.

••Mott••

a pece of a program the widget engine is the rest of it. the widget engine is the only part that you install.

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