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The Samsung Omnia competitor and viewty successor from LG now officially called LG Renoir (previously KC910) has been captured live by BoyGeniusReport and there is a shot showing the Widgetized Mobile desktop. in the LG Renoir is more akin to a emulation of the Mac Dashboard, instead of the Vista Sidebar like approach of the Samsung Omnia.

Google desktop has always been resources hungry. the CPU utilization got better as it updated but it remained to be memory hungry. the new update that brings Google Desktop to version 5.8 finally solves that issue. the reason for Google Desktop high memory consume seemed to be its desktop index and search.

Windows Live Video Messages is a Social Video Mail service for Windows Live ID users. you only need a Live ID to use it. right now it is a Windows Only service for XP and Vista.  The service allows you to send, receive, forward and download personal messages from you and your friends.

I usually don`t post much on Widget Startups if they are in Private Beta or if i have not checked them on closely. but i have been asked about Tingz twice. and i usually like to respond when asked. Tingz is a Widget Startup that wants to spread web widgets (of the utilitarian kind at this point) everywhere.

As Britt Watwood commented ClustrMaps is a “must-have” widget for class and student blogs because it reminds students that they are part of a global voice and demonstrates how interconnected we all are. So here’s how to set up a ClustrMaps on your blog.

Joost was a good idea that turned a bad idea given its slow and bumpy development process. the really, really bad decision to try to make a cross platform desktop application based on Mozilla code was one of the worst possible ways to go given the kind of money in play (so far 45 million).

I guess it is quite official now. smartphones from korea will carry widgetized desktops (home/start page). because in the official pictures for the LG-KC910 now heralded as the successor to the Viewty (that was derived from the Prada phone) you can see exactly just that.

Picwing is a very simple photo service that allows you to upload pictures by emailing them to the service or loading them up thanks to a desktop app. that is of course not all. the service focus is to be almost a real time photo album aggregator that can put those photos into several places as soon as they are uploaded.

KlipFolio is a Windows desktop application that can give you a Widgetized Dashboard where you can load widget modules. these widget modules are Klips. these Klips are more than not of three kinds: 1.-Info Widgets They load notifications (new e-mails alerts,etc) 2.- Feed Viewers They Load Feeds and serve as news tickers and quick view feedreaders.

Everything is moving to the cloud. As we enter the third decade of the Web we are seeing an increasing shift from native desktop applications towards Web-hosted clones that run in browsers. For example, a range of products such as Microsoft Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, ThinkFree, DabbleDB, Basecamp,