Widgets for the Masses-- Cool Tools, 2008 AALL Annual Meeting

Popular Dashboard Widgets: Language translator, iStat Pro (system monitor), Sing that iTune!

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Useful Add-ons: NoScript (stops bad scripts), Zotero (organizes research), Web Developer Toolbar; not all add-ons working Firefox 3

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Useful Gadgets: Weather, Traffic, To-do list, Calculator, RSS Stream
Useless but amazingly popular: Virtual Flower Pot

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Popular Widgets: Yahoo! Finance, Sys Monitor, Desk Calendar, PostIt

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Useful Apps: WorldCat, PreCYdent, JSTOR Search, Visual Bookshelf

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Popular Apps: CNN, How to of the Day, Gmail

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Popular: Movies, SuperPoke, Playlist.com Music Video Playlists

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Widgets are mostly RSS feeds

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Customize the widget and copy and paste the code or link.

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Create a chat box on your website

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Create a chat box for your website

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Popular: All in One SEO Pack, Google XML Sitemaps, Sociable (add links to social networks)

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Not all of these are useful to libraries but it's a fun article.

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In beta. Create interactive media viewers.

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Create a ibrary tool bar to search your catalog, Google Scholar, and more.

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Create a toolbar

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Create your widget using step-by-step instructions.

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create Flash widgets

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manipulate data from the web

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Requires Silverlight installation; works best in FF2 on a Mac

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