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YourMinis gives its widgets desktop integration.

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why are widgets popular?
by wriker March 21, 2007 11:53 AM PDT
Are they just esthetically pleasing to look at? If all they do is open applications, why can't you just click a shortcut or an icon on the taskbar to do the same thing? I just don't see the appeal.
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why are they popular
by wriker March 21, 2007 11:56 AM PDT
I don't see the appeal if all they do is open apps. Can't you do the same thing clicking on a shortcut or icon on the task bar? Why download another memory hungry program when you already have icons on your screen or task bar? I just can't see it.
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Memory issues
by hwoolery March 21, 2007 2:16 PM PDT
Hi, I'm one of the developers at yourminis.com. I'd just like to note that this is a very early alpha release of both Apollo and our application, with no optimization on our end yet. Expect the memory and CPU usage to drop very far down in future releases.
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Sounds good
by Josh.Lowensohn March 22, 2007 12:01 PM PDT
Hey thanks for reading and giving us the head's up. As I mentioned, it's to be expected.

We're more excited by the technology and usage.
These _may_ be interesting to Mac users...
by dmland March 21, 2007 3:18 PM PDT
Some of us despise Apple's decision to stick widgets in a separate layer. Thus, some of us have adopted Yahoo! Widgets (formerly Konfabulator), because they are not foolishly separated from the rest of our work. YourMini's desktop widgets are an alternative to Yahoo! Widgets.
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