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MyCorkboard a 1998 Innovation may have Invented Widgets and Gadgets

posted Jul 23, 2010 8:15 AM by Anantha Narayan   [ updated Jan 22, 2011 3:16 AM ]
Personalize your PC with the award-winning MyCorkboard screen saver! Pick from hundreds of drag-and-drop items to create your own personal design. Add clocks, photos, calendars, sticky notes, to do lists, name plates, phone dialers, animated pets and dozens of amazing gizmos.

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I may be wrong, but going by my awareness of software from DOS 4 times. I strongly feel this was an invention i never noticed till a couple of days ago. I may have ignored it as it was labeled a screen-saver. The compilations are as old as 1997 ?.This is a widgets engine.

This may been the ancestor or predecessor of the Desktop Widgets and Gadgets from various firms. It is a strange extension of plus!

I wish it is improved and enhanced for xp and made into a alternate desktop on switch. Which can hold applets too. MS ought to make donations or a provision to such freeware developers who are the engine behind their success. Apple seems to reward their developers, this is the right business model.

Look at a Corkboard i have Created !