What's a widget?
A widget is a small program that only does one thing: but does that one thing, very well. My favourite widget is the Rijkswidget (see above) which is a small program that showcases a piece of art from the Royal Dutch Museum (the Rijksmuseum). A new work of art appears on your desktop every day. Click on it once and it increases in size and resolution, click on the bottom right corner and you get information about the artwork and the artist.
You can download one for free from the Rijksmuseum:
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/widget?lang=en
There are many widgets: global clocks, weather reports, cute stuff, educational stuff, latest updated newspapers front page from all over the world ... anything. Widgetbox have a good selection, but there are many sites that allow you to download widgets.
Have fun.
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