{"id":780,"date":"2006-11-21T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T18:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/5ea1707283b123305595d8ad21daba19"},"modified":"2006-11-21T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T18:44:14","slug":"widgets-for-your-desk-not-your-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Widgets for your desk, not your desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widgets, as demonstrated in Mac OS X's <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/dashboard\/\">Dashboard<\/a><\/b> and used frequently in many business reporting tools are a phenomenally useful way of viewing and interacting with select and specific pieces of information. <\/p>\n<p>Soon you'll be able to get a widget display solution for the desk, in the form of the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/50321099\/\">WidgetStation<\/a><\/b>, a small device with one colour and one monochrome display for displaying a small discrete amount of information. Unfortunately it's not Wifi, hard wired only, but other companies are producing similar devices, like <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chumby.com\/corporate\">Chumby<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=dRXCsi\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=dRXCsi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/52240362\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widgets, as demonstrated in Mac OS X&#8217;s <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/features\/dashboard\/\">Dashboard<\/a><\/b> and used frequently in many business reporting tools are a phenomenally useful way of viewing and interacting with select and specific pieces of information. <\/p>\n<p>Soon you&#8217;ll be able to get a widget display solution for the desk, in the form of the <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/50321099\/\">WidgetStation<\/a><\/b>, a small device with one colour and one monochrome display for displaying a small discrete amount of information. Unfortunately it&#8217;s not Wifi, hard wired only, but other companies are producing similar devices, like <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chumby.com\/corporate\">Chumby<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=dRXCsi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=dRXCsi\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/52240362\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}