Konfabulator. Yeah, Yahoo!

When Google acquired Picasa, I thought, wow, buying a company and then give away their product for free? Interesting concept. Picasa is really a nice piece of engineering. Not quite Photoshop, but cool features, nice and intuitive user interface, and of course, the price is unbeatable.

Now, Yahoo has acquired Pixoria, maker of widget-wonder Konfabulator. And they make it a free download, too. Thanks guys, that's konfabulous! I've been playing around with Konfabulator widgets for about two years, and they make the desktop look so cool, that wherever I go, people ask what kind of operating system I'm running on my PC. I already switched the whole Windows XP interface to a Mac OS X look-and-feel earlier, and through the additions of the Konfabulator widgets, the OS doesn't really resemble anything remotely similar to the Redmond product.


It's going to be interesting to see how Vista will look like.