Konfabulator Now Yahoo Widget Engine

The first new version of Konfabulator since its July 2005 acquisition by Yahoo was released on Monday. However, the application has a new name, Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0, and now includes contributions from the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Nine new widgets were also released today, including five that take advantage of various Yahoo services.

A map widget allows users to search for addresses and view maps, and an update to the picture frame widget now supports Yahoo! Photos and Flickr join a Yahoo! Search widget, a Yahoo! Mail widget, and a Yahoo! Notepad widget that can sync with the company's online notepad application.

Yahoo says that since the acquisition, Konfabulator has been downloaded 1.5 million times, with users downloading over 10 million widgets to date.

"Yahoo! Widgets allow consumers to always have the information and content they want close at hand and is just one example of the ways we're able to make Yahoo!'s services and content available to users when, where and how they want," Jerrell Jimerson, vice president of Connected Life products at Yahoo, said in a statement.

Widgets are small applications that can be loaded directly onto the desktop to perform basic functions without the need to open a full application. Apple integrated the feature into Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, but its widgets reside on a separate desktop layer.

About 2,000 widgets are available for Yahoo! Widget Engine, the company said.

Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0 is available to download now for both Windows and Mac OS X.

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