Desktop Favourites
by Andy Riley
Use this Widget to create links to your favourite applications, folders and websites in an organised structure on you desktop.
Create Favourites to launch applications, folders and websites by dragging them onto the Widget
Create your own Headings and Subheadings to enable you to organise your favourites
Reorder the Headings, Subheadings and Favourites by clicking at the end of their bar and dragging
Minimise and maximise the Headings and Subheadings to save space on your desktop
Personalise the colour scheme
Create Favourites to launch applications, folders and websites by dragging them onto the Widget
Create your own Headings and Subheadings to enable you to organise your favourites
Reorder the Headings, Subheadings and Favourites by clicking at the end of their bar and dragging
Minimise and maximise the Headings and Subheadings to save space on your desktop
Personalise the colour scheme
Current Version: 3.0
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June 21, 2006 · version 3.0 StrongbowI'm new to widgets ..... and i felt i needed more visuals than the 'yahoo engine' provides with a 'dock'....... i've used your widget in conjunction with the 'side panel' widget and used the window 'lock' facility and it looks great :)
all I need to do now is load this one up first and then just load up side panel and any others i want from my widget heading .......... it has crashed a couple of times whilst i've been bombarding it with url's but N… More
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June 18, 2006 · version 3.0 jaggerbladeAs well, I thought I could probably shed some light on the crashes people have experienced. In general usage, this either never crashes or only crashes once in a great while. When the widget is being set up, however, or shortly after a favorite is added, it seems to crash if you do not let enough time elapse between adding the favorite and clicking on it. Relative to other widgets, this also seems to take a while bringing up things like the preferences dialog. Perhaps clicking on the widget whil… More
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June 18, 2006 · version 3.0 jaggerbladeThis widget is fantastic. I got into widgets just as a plaything but this has completely changed the setup of my computer. It has allowed me to hide all my desktop icons and (combined with other widgets, but this as my main) completely forego the use of my taskbar and start menu. I *LOVE* the one-click access to everything, and I have all my favorite programs and internet shortcuts organized in one simple and beautiful widget. I think both skins are great and blend well with my desktop (which is… More
