This is the author of Ultimate WOTD.
Wow! I'm thrilled (and slightly horrified! - I'll explain later) at the responses that have been posted during my year-long absence. People pleading to have it fixed?! It's gotten five star ratings, despite the fact that it was completely broken?!!! Users even created a forum thread to discuss what to do, and came up with some awesome ideas for a new WOTD widget: (http://www2.konfabulator.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=19142) Unfortunately, it do…esn't appear anyone stepped up to create another widget. This niche - a small one albeit, for logophiles (and I hadn't even heard of that word!) - is still unfilled. I felt bad to let so many people down, so this afternoon I sat down and updated the widget, so all the sources work again!

I had to get a Yahoo! account in order to upload the new widget, but hopefully it will pass inspection and be available soon. In the mean time, version 3.2 can be downloaded from here: http://stashbox.org/68945/Ultimate%20WOTD.widget

On the one hand, I'm thrilled to have created something that inspires such fervor. On the other hand, I seem to be stuck supporting a widget that I can't even run on my operating system of choice (Kubuntu Linux). If ANYONE would like to take the project over, PLEASE do.

Regardless, I'm proud to present Ultimate WOTD v3.2! I hope you enjoy it. More

This sir, is an awesome widget. It's a logophile's wet dream and my favorite widget by far!!

I am so disappointed you won't be continuing it. Is there any chance you would reconsider? Please? PLEASE?!? As it stands, I'm sorry but I have to agree with some of the posters here that Dictionary.com is essential to any WOTD program. I'm sadly very ill-equipped to deal with technological conundrums but you write:

"However, all that needs to be done to fix it is change the …regular expressions used to parse the Dictionary.com site. Anyone who has the inclination to fix it and knows a little about regular expressions could do it without too much trouble, I believe. I'll gladly update the widget is someone sends me the code changes, but otherwise, I'm afraid that this widget is abandonware. (At least for a while.)"

Can anyone send Mr. Hilton the code he needs, to parse the expressions, as he puts it? Is the work that tedious? If it is, More

This is really a great widget. It's really unfortunate that it has been abandoned. Dictionary.com and Mirriam Webster are not working for me.

I decided to use the whole yahoo widget software instead of the windows vista sidebar just for this particular widget. I am hoping that these will somehow get fixed especially the doctionary.com

it cool but a very large you should put additional option to change the size

Don't even bother with the other dictionary widgets; this is the only one you'll ever need. It is perfect in every way. Thank you William for fixing it!