Yahoo! Keeps Consumers Connected with Yahoo! Widgets 4.New Widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. Dock, New Flickr Flickr is a photo sharing website and web services suite, and an online community platform, which is generally considered an early example of a Web 2.0 application. (TM) Widget and Performance Improvements Highlight Upgrade to Industry's Only Major Cross-OS Desktop Widget Platform SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO YHOO Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ symbol) ) today launched Yahoo! Widgets Yahoo! Widgets is a free application platform for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. The software was previously called Konfabulator, but after being acquired by computer services company Yahoo! it was rebranded. 4, a new version of the industry leading desktop Widgets platform. Yahoo! Widgets give consumers a live, at-a-glance view of their favorite Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the information and services on the desktop. This new version offers users and developers improved features and capabilities, including a new Widget Dock, new and improved Widgets, dramatically improved performance, new and streamlined installation, improved authoring tools and automatic updates. The industry's only major cross-OS desktop Widget platform is now available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. at http://widgets.yahoo.com. "Yahoo! continues its leadership position in the desktop Widget category, and with Yahoo! Widgets 4 we are excited to bring the newest version of our pioneering product to consumers and developers alike," said Paul Brody, vice-president, desktop products, Yahoo!. "Millions of active users rely on Yahoo!'s connected desktop applications to keep updated Internet content that's important to them right at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , and our new product gives them the functionality to make it easier and better organized than ever." Yahoo! Widgets 4 delivers improved performance and a host of new features to help users keep Widgets organized and easily accessible, including: * Widget Dock - a brand new feature that provides a live, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet information and services. Users can auto-hide the Dock and attach it to any side or corner of multiple monitors. * Dramatically improved performance - reduced memory consumption of individual Widgets by up to 40 percent.1 * New Widgets by Yahoo! - Yahoo! introduces the Flickr(TM) Widget and the Yahoo! Gallery Yahoo! Gallery is a service from Yahoo! that provides applications using Yahoo! technologies. Links Yahoo! Gallery • • Widget. * Streamlined installation - smaller download and a new Widget-centric installation process makes it easier than ever for consumers to get the Widget they want and for authors to promote their own Widgets. * Improved authoring tools - new functionality and improved tools for Widget authors to build more powerful Widgets. * Automatic updates - notification via the Widget Dock when newer versions of the Widgets in use are available and ready for one-click upgrade2. Yahoo! Widgets 4 marks the release of the new Flickr Widget. The Flickr Widget is the most full-featured Widget Yahoo! has ever developed and is an extension of Yahoo!'s popular Flickr photo-sharing service. The Flickr Widget helps users easily display, upload See download. upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. Opposite: download. and tag Flickr photos. Users can now drag-and-drop larger groups of photos, and edit their tags and information without ever opening a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Yahoo! Widgets 4 also includes the new Yahoo! Gallery Widget, which provides easy access to the Yahoo! Widget Gallery, the largest collection of desktop Widgets available anywhere on the Internet, with over 4,300 desktop Widgets developed and submitted by independent Widget authors from around the world. With the new Gallery Widget, users can find thousands of Widgets right from their desktop and start running them with one click. All Widgets in the Yahoo! Widget Gallery are safe and ready for download, and can be managed on a user's desktop via the Widget Dock. In addition, this new release features updates to the 21 popular Yahoo! Widgets that came pre-loaded with the previous version. Yahoo! Widgets 4, powered by the popular Konfabulator desktop development platform, provides an accessible standards-based platform for web-technology developers to extend their reach to the desktops of millions of use. In addition, Yahoo! is the only major provider to offer a cross-OS widgets platform -- Mac OS X, Win 2000, Win XP and Windows Vista The current version of Windows for the desktop. It was released in late 2006 for businesses and early 2007 for consumers. Vista adds numerous features, including improved security and advanced multimedia capabilities. . For more information on Yahoo! Widgets 4, or to download the new version, go to http://widgets.yahoo.com/. About Yahoo! Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities, and the world's knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. 1 The memory consumption reductions apply to Virtual Memory (VM) Size, which is the most important performance metric that we could improve. To see this, in your Windows Task Manager Windows Task Manager is a task manager application included with Microsoft Windows operating systems that provides detailed information about computer performance and running applications, processes and CPU usage, commit charge and memory information, network activity and choose 'Select Columns O' from the 'View' menu and check the box for 'VM Size.' 2 Currently only available for Widgets authored by Yahoo!. This functionality will soon be available for all Widgets in the Yahoo! Widget Gallery. |
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