After looking through many sites on widgets, I found most to be fun and entertaining, like the cat widget on this blog, but not really useful. I did find some that were somewhat useful, and I put them all on Pageflakes. The ones that I have chosen to discuss here are:
Google Search was a widget called a "flake" that you can add to your pageflake pages from the pageflake site. It's handy because it will give you result links within the widget without opening up into a new page. It will give you results for web, news, local (directions), blog, and video. I was dissapointed though that I could not use the google search widget for calculations or definitions, which is somthing you can do with the regular search engine. I added the Calculator widget from Pageflakes to do calculations.
The LabPixies Clock was another Pageflakes widget. It was fun because there were many different clock designs you could choose from. The design I chose also displays the date. I wanted it to display the date because sometimes at work at the library some of our computers don't display the date when you put the mouse cursor on the time on the lower right of the computer. "What is today's date?" seems to be a question I get asked a lot when I am working with the public.
I put the Sticky Note widget from Pageflakes on my pageflake main page so If I need to jot down some notes quickly that I can refer to later. Also the The Weather Channel widget from Pageflakes I use as well. Its like a RSS feed of the weather but it displays a graphic for each day to depict the weather forecast. Its good to get an instant glimpse of the weather forecast by visiting my pageflake homepage especially as the weather is getting colder and we get into the winter season.
The Epicurious Recipes Widget I found on a site called Widgetbox. I like the Widgetbox site because it made it very easy to add a widget to a blog like blogger or wordpress or to a news aggregator like pageflakes or igoogle. You just create an account, login, and click on a button. This Epicurious Widget displays new recipes from the Epicurious site. I liked the layout for this widget including the scroll bar button. One interesting thing is that you can get an RSS feed from Epicurious of new recipes to display on Pageflakes that will look similar to the widget but won't have a link to the Epicurious home page. One thing I've learned is that if you have a choice between a widget and a feed to try both because one may be more useful than the other.
I believe I will continue to use these particular widgets unless I can find another similar widget on another site that works better or has more features.
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