Amnesty Widgets is a service by Mesa Dynamics a previously Mac only desktop software developer that is now offering some breakthrough services for widgets that are aimed for both Mac and Windows.
The idea of the service is to be able to take any widget on the web and make it work on your desktop or even the Windows Vista Sidebar without having to know anything about code and in a process that pretty much makes it a swift experience.
This was possible in both XP and Vista before, but the methods to do so where more for experts or advanced users, but with amnesty widgets that is a thing of the past thanks to the following services:
Hypercube is a freeware application that allows any widget on the web, to be able to live in your desktop in the same way you could expect it using the yahoo widget engine. it also offer you with a interface to search for widgets in the most popular widget providers, developers and even other platforms.
It`s final feature it`s able to lock a widget into the Windows Vista Sidebar just by pushing it with one click.
Generator is a direct to Windows Vista Sidebar freeware application ,that allows you to turn any web widget into a gadget and make it work inside the sidebar and to appear in your gadget gallery too.
Browser is a paid Mac only Application to enable widgets to run more freely in the mac desktop recovering many, if not most of the features from the Konfabulator (now Yahoo Widget Engine) Days not present on Dashboard and taking out the most of your widgets.
*price for the app is 19.95
Singles is a paid Mac only application to convert Dashboard widgets it applications of their own and be able to work with the Dock and behave as a regular OS x app.
This makes sense for most the advanced Dashboard widgets out there
*price for the app is 9.95
There you have it, now there is pretty much no excuse, almost all of the widgets me and Derek have previewed, reviewed and talked about so far should work with this Amnesty Widget new programs, now the only question i could ask to the developer would be if it is possible to take Windows Exclusive Gadgets to the Mac and Mac Dashboard only Widgets to Windows Vista Sidebar?
But right now i am already using Hypercube for XP and Generator for Vista Sidebar, and i must say i am very impressed by them, my favorite even then must be the Generator app, because i found Hypercube ease of use and interface a little unresponsive and slow at times, but the results were perfect so far, so i know it should improve with time.
I decided to do such a big profile on this company because it is relevant to all what is happening now with widgets gaining more and more spread and also getting more powerful, i can only wait to see what else follows for this company, maybe a widget to facebook app or a web to mobile app. let`s hope and see.
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