Konfabulator for PC. Widgets.
 

Hi all, I stumbled across a free app called Konfabulator recently. I guess it's been available for the Mac kids for quite a while. The program lets you set up various semi-transparent widgets on your desktop. Examples: System stats, local temp, stock ticker, ets. I like it a lot so far. It's unobtrusive and uses almost no resources. Of course, I run dual monitors and have all ny widgets on my secondary monitor. I don't know how much I would like the app if I had only one monitor.

Link: http://www.Konfabulator.com/

Konfabulator would be great IF it were free, and not just a free trial. The OSX version is unrivaled. Nevertheless, there are some great widgets for Konfabulator and its style fits my preferences better than other proograms. However, if I remember correctly it's a little memory intensive on the Windows version. Unless they've made some changes, each widget takes up a small chunk of memory, but it's not a large problem unless you use quite a few at once. You can check this by opening up your task manager and taking a peek.
I don't mean to thread hijack, but try <a href="http://www.kapsules.shellscape.org/">Kapsules</a>. It's free and <i>almost</i> as cool as Konfabulator.
Seems they're updating the webpage and the program right now, so you might have to wait a few days on that one.

Kind of like dashboard... huh? Looks more like a modern desktop accessory from Mac OS 6-8 implamentation.