Konfabulator
Posted on June 30, 2004
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Long, long ago, like sometime last year, I checked out Konfabulator and thought “cool, very cool… but not something I need” and didn’t pay much attention to it after that.
Until yesterday when word of Apple’s Dashboard was announced as a feature of the next OS release. My first reaction: “bastards! you stole that idea.” How much did they steal it? Despite having invested in AppleScript for years Apple has chosen to make JavaScript the language for Dashboard, just like Konfab. C’mon guys: at the very least eat your own dogfood.
So today I payed for Konfabulator, partially because it’s come a hell of a long way from when I last checked it out (the gallery of widgets is astounding) but primarily as a vote of support for the small developers that make me love my Mac as the machine I want to use every single day.
I may not use Konfabulator (though the Toronto weather widget has found a permanent place on my desktop now) but dammit I love that Perry and Arlo have created such a slick piece of software. Its obviously been crafted with care and dedication (in their spare time no less) and that deserves our support.
$25 to tell the small-scale Mac developers of the world that they really matter, when it seems like more and more often the word out of Cupertino is that they don’t, doesn’t seem like all that high a price to pay.