I was perusing the Yahoo developer site this weekend to see what web services were available for use. I was curious to see if Yahoo Briefcase had any documented ways to access it programmatically amongst other desired functionality. I never got around to finding out about their APIs because I was distracted by Konfabulator. I read about it before in passing, but didn’t really know what it was. I assumed it was some nerdy set of utilities to pimp your desktop up with time wasting uselessness. But I discovered something else entirely. It’s a rather sophisticated JavaScript slash XML based runtime framework for creating widgets. You can create some really useful stuff with this. So, it’s really a nerdy framework to create utilities that could possibly do anything. I like the fact that it can call Windows COM objects as well. It has built-in support for a bunch of stuff like iTunes manipulation. The based Konfabulator installation comes with a bunch of really handy utilities to give you an idea of what it can do. Now all I have to do is think of something useful that I have been wanting to develop and go at it.
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I had read about it a number of months ago. Aware that you could utilize it to “create”, but unaware of what to really do with it. I’ll be intertested to see what you come up with.