Posted by WishX on 19 September 2005 - 04:44 · 7 comments & 1969 views
Kapsules is a completely free, scriptable widget engine for Windows. Widgets are small application-like tools, which rest on your desktop. They can help make you more productive, display information, entertain your brain, or just give you something to smile at. Kapsules gives widget developers the choice of writing widgets eight different scripting languages including, but not limited to; JScript, VBScript, JScript.NET, VB.NET, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby.

Kapsules is free to download and free to use, so go ahead and give it a try. Click "...Read More" for more information.

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Version 0.9.9 is a major milestone release of Kapsules.

Kapsules has seen a lot of changes since the last version. The Widget Settings, Window and main Configuration dialogs were completely redesigned and new controls were added to make changing settings a breeze. Special attention was paid to widget developers and nearly every request from developers for new widget capabilities and features were implemented. Several widget-authoring aspects were completely redone from the ground up. Once again resource use and speed was paid special attention. More assistance and support for scripting languages were added to make use of the widgets, which use these alternative languages easier for users.



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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Nautica on 19 Sep 2005 - 04:54
ok lets here it from you guys.... is this any good or another neowin software post that has warnings from everyone not to use it...

sounds like avedesk to me.. I dont want to try it out till I hear from people that actually use it daily

cheers
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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by TRC on 19 Sep 2005 - 04:59
Konfabulator is free now also and it's very nice. How does this compare?
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by frogworm on 19 Sep 2005 - 06:20
it doesn't hurt to try it for yourselves guys, afterall it is freeware. they should just merge developers with konfabulator though; same problem with the linux distro industry, too much talent spread out. this is why MS rules the world, they bring everything under one company name.
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by ZombieFly on 19 Sep 2005 - 12:12
this is probably the most accurate thing anyone has said on neowin for the last 2 years!

n00b
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by insanekiwi on 19 Sep 2005 - 08:06
kapsules is a decent program and has been around quite long.
it requires the .net framework tho. but it'S somewhat similar to avedesk or konfabulator. easy to use.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by PacificAk on 19 Sep 2005 - 09:06
somewhat similar to knofab & ave....!!!

man thats such a understatement....

its more similar to DesktopX as its got a lot more capabilities than the aforementioned softwares....

biggest feature: u can script for Kapsules in any of the languages that .NET supports VBS, JS, VBS.Net JS.Net, C#, etc etc.....
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Chronigan on 20 Sep 2005 - 03:04
Kapsules has the ability of samurize with the ease of use of konfab or desktopx. Widgets work right out of the box but they can also be very easily customized.
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