Make widgets from web pages

We had written about 360Desktop which had a feature of making widgets out of web pages, but if you only want to make web pages out of web pages then Snippage is a great tool.

What

Snippage is a utility based on Adobe AIR which can be used to make widgets or snips of webpages and displays them on desktop. Snippage is a really nice AIR implementation of the ‘web snippets’ concept. Just like you can take a clip of a website with Safari on the Mac and display it on your dashboard, Snippage brings you the same functionality cross browser with Adobe AIR.

Who

Snippage has been developed by Gabo Mendoza a flash developer.

How

Snippage is based on Adobe AIR. You need Adobe AIR installed to install snippage.

Use Snippage:

• Once you launch Snippage you are presented with a browser like window. Enter the webpage you want to widgetize.
• The snip highlight box has three hot corners.
• Move the snip marks with our arrowed mark on left top corner.
• Resize the snip with the pointer on right bottom corner.
• Snip the website to make widget with the scissor mark on right top corner.
• In the snip view one can set the refresh time of the snip to do not refresh, refresh every 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 3 hours.

Why

Pros: Snippage brings the “web snippets” function to your windows pc and it is really very tiny utility

Cons: Can’t adjust the refresh time manually.

Download: Snippage

Download : Adobe Air required for snippage to work

Version: 1.0 R12 beta for AIR 1.0

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Get unlimited desktop space with 360Desktop

Tired of the old boring windows desktop? Want unlimited space on your desktop? Get 360Desktop and great tool to customize your windows desktop….

What

360Desktop provides a panoramic view of your desktop and scrolls in a circular way, thus it provides additional desktop space.

How

Just download, install and launch 360Desktop. It changes your desktop into a 360 degree panoramic desktop. It has d following features:

• Scroll through the desktop like a circular panoramic area.
• Provides unlimited desktop space, a window or a program like Firefox can be open at one place and you can move to another area so there is no clue of a program open. Thus unlimited programs/windows can be open virtually.
• Web Pages, widgets, Rss Feeds, You Tube videos can be used as widgets on the desktop.
• A part of a web page can be selected and displayed, like if you want to keep an eye on changing cricket score or an eBay auction.
• One can also Create their own 360’s by default there are two of them.
• A gallery to download user uploaded 360’s.
• Widgets can be scaled and positioned according to user and can be locked.

Watch the Video on top for a better understanding about 360Desktop.

Why

Pros: Virtually unlimited desktop space, Ability to create 360’s, Widgets, web pages, RSS feeds can be used as widgets thus providing everything one accesses frequently on the desktop without clutter. The web content displayed on the desktop is independent of your browser.

Cons: Can’t make websites like Gmail a widget, more 360’s should be provided, despite exiting the program the process still remains in the task manager.

Download: 360Desktop

Version: 0.6.0.1588-BETA

Size: 6.37 MB

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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