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We like lots of widgets, but not all of them, and that's sort of the point: there's a desktop widget for every need and every taste available for free, customized exactly the way you like it, thanks to XWidget. This free app comes with a bunch of ready-made widgets that can check the weather, stock prices, headlines, and messages; display compact slideshows; play video; add and subtract; and anything you can do with a widget. But the really cool thing is the XWidget Designer, a sophisticated tool for creating and customizing widgets. It lets you change the size, color, finish, action, and properties of your widgets. The optional Dashboard and a variety of pop-up Config dialogs make it easy to deploy your widgets, too. Extras include a screenshot tool.
XWidget's features are dispersed in its widgets, in the Dashboard, and in the XWidget Designer, not to mention separate configuration screens and options panels for most widgets and features, too. The Dashboard is a prominent feature in its default mode, though you can customize it, like most of XWidget's features. It displays available widgets in a scrolling panel along the bottom of the screen. Three widgets open with the program: a stylishly mod analog clock face, a compact photo gallery, and an even smaller weather widget. We right-clicked the Weather widget and quickly changed our location to access local weather data. The same menu accesses all kinds of options; for instance, clicking Edit opened the widget in the XWidget Designer, while the Configure option opened a compact properties sheet for quickly setting and locking position and other basic choices.
XWidget has received some significant upgrades since we last tried it, and it's a smooth performer with little in the way of issues, though we did have some trouble displaying the Dashboard from the program's main menu, and many of the supplied widgets still bear names like EkerTime and EkerWeahter (yes, "weahter") but that's hardly more than a quibble. XWidget more than makes up for it with its advanced customization capabilities. The XWidget Designer is this program's hidden attraction: Don't like something? Change it!
XWidget - Enhance your desktop with different widgets - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
From XWidget Software Studio:
XWidget is a free desktop customization platform. It's light, handy with powerful visual widget editor and very subtle animations. More fast startup speed, low resources taken, with smooth animation effect.
What's new in this version: Version 1.82 includes the following enhancements:
- Add: DateTimeCore add tag DayInMonthPercent, DayOfTheYear, DaysInMonth
- Fixed: DateTimeCore tag DayPercent data error bug
- Fixed: RoundLine control Gradient color not display bug
- Fixed: Calendar control holiday week number bug
- Fixed: Line control take 2 pixel bug
- Fixed: Get color 0 bug when uses Selectcolor click OK button
- Fixed: PlayerControl Core can not disabled tray hint bugSee all new features
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"excelent! excelent!"
Version: XWidget 1.8
Pros
excelent! excelent!
Cons
excelent! excelent! excelent!
Summary
excelent! excelent! excelent!
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"Great program"
Version: XWidget 1.8
Pros
(Norton can suck it, they have a lot of false positives. It probably recognizes it as such because when you install it, it asks if it can install adware. You can opt out though)
It's a great widget program and has a great program for CREATING your own widgets for it!Cons
Not enough people use it, so there aren't enough cool widgets. Rainmeter is better in this aspect, as well as many others.
Summary
It's great. You might want to use Rainmeter instead though. XWidget is easier to use for people who aren't as good with computers. It also allows for the easy creation of your own widgets!
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"A really good desktop gadget program."
Version: XWidget 1.75
Pros
The ability to use small gadgets other than the ones that come with the prpogram is of great importance to me. I have the HTC clock and weather gadget and the calendar and sticky notes going at all time. It really is better than Windows 7 gadget collection.
Cons
Increase the number and types of gadgets that are available and this program would get a 5 Star Rating!
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"Contains Snap.Do due to CNet"
Version: XWidget 1.75
Pros
Great program, love the widges, very low memory footprint.
Cons
Comes with Snap.Do due to CNet, this program is a trojan that hijacks the browser page on any installed browser and redirects searches. CNet is being paid to attach this and a few other programs in with the download. They are making merchandise of you to host what would otherwise be an excellent program.
Summary
It is a great program, but it isn't worth it due to CNet bundling malware with it. Don't trust CNet, and go to the Xwidget.com forums and tell the developer that you want his software but only if it is hosted without malware.
To those who have commented "You are just using Norton" No, I am not using Norton, I wouldn't. Looking at what it installs, and Googling Snap.Do make it abundantly clear exactly what it is. -
"Nice Gadgets but with unwanted browser add-on"
Version: XWidget 1.73
Pros
Some nice gadgets
Cons
In the end, the only way to remove the included Snap.To add-on was to uninstall the XWidget program.:-(
Summary
Snap.To is a program that gets installed along with XWidget. It gets into your browser and can not be disable the usual ways. Too intrusive for my tastes. I uninstalled XWidget (which I like) as it was the only way to get rid of Snap.To.
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"A little too complicated"
Version: XWidget 1.73
Pros
There are a great many options with many different themes that allow you to add usability and depth to your desktop.
Cons
The widget editing and creating requires a fairly deep knowledge of coding. And without that knowledge, you're left to the catalog of widgets created by other users.
Summary
While this is a great tool and has a multitude of options for customizing your desktop, the widget creation tool is a bit complex. If you have no knowledge of programming, finding the right widget for you will rely upon some stranger having created just the tool.
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"This is a BHO (Browser Helper Object) which is spyware."
Version: XWidget 1.73
Pros
see my cons.
Cons
This changes your default search engine to babylon, & adds toolbars to your browser. This is SPYWARE, Period.
Summary
look at cons.
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"It's great for costumizing your desktop!"
Version: XWidget 1.73
Pros
Many widgets available
quick response
several apps are customizable
Ability to download widgets all from one windows is great!Cons
At windows start-up the program freezes and becomes unclickable.
I have to remove it by opening task manager, end task.
And then i have to start it again.
Although there are many available widgets, there isn't much variety, and some of the widgets don't work very well.Summary
I decided to try this out because RAinmeter would always take long to start whenever I turned on my computer, and it consumed alot of memory at that.
This turned out about the same, so I would try either or. -
"Pretty good"
Version: XWidget 1.73
Pros
Ability to customize
Cons
None so far...
Summary
They've got a good thing going here. While there are some things that could be improved, it's better than the gadgets Microsoft has chosen to only allow from their gallery or that comes installed with Windows.
And to the person who claims there is malware...there isn't any...and that's ran through 3 different AV programs. Norton is now considered a dinosaur when it comes to anti-virus/malware detection. They are the worst when it comes to detecting real viruses and malware and are notorious for bogging down computers and false positives. Get a better anti-virus software...plenty of free ones out there...why get ripped off each year for a sub-par software when there's plenty of free ones that are better? -
"BAD FILE (MALWARE)"
Version: XWidget 1.51
Pros
This app is irresistible. awesome & i never came across such a beautiful app. its widget's are mesmerising. But Norton detected it as BAD FILE (MALWARE) and removed. Game is over, get back to work
Cons
what is con in a malware? idon kno
Summary
Copy of report submited to download.com
Yesterday Norton Internet Security's (NIS) Norton Power Eraser detected "xwidget.exe" & gallery" (gallery of xwidget) as bad files. Now i have to format my PC because of destablized. I request you to only add trusted files after checking Terms & Conditions, privacy policy etc. Atleast you can give rating to apps on basis of trustworthiness. Download.com's credibility will be highly improve if you'll test, monitor, explore apps untill you are 100% sure of apps integrity, safety, reliability. I appreciate your feedback procedure & open to be contacted further if needed.
Thanks for listening..
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