One cool thing from Steve Job’s keynote at the WWDC yesterday was the release of information about Tiger, the next generation Mac OS, but specifically the Dashboard widget application.
I’ve long been interested in dashboards and other knowledge management tools and am currently involved in a major project ending in late July along these same lines for my real job.
Reading about Dashboard in Tiger led me to Konfabulator, which I had never heard of, and does almost exactly the same thing as Tiger’s Dashboard will do.
So here I sit, on my powerbook at work, with widgets open in Konfabulator showing me the current weather, the days left until the startup of this project’s active phase, and the current stock price of my employer. Absolutely fantastic.
I can’t wait to get it home and try it out on the big screen.