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Ask Download Squad: What are widgets worth?

Last week, we asked you to help us decide which was the best alternative to Microsoft Office. Not surprisingly, OpenOffice.org was a big favorite, though many of you admitted that, for certain tasks, Office still rules. "For me, it comes down to Outlook. Everything else being equal ... there is no real replacement for Outlook," said Mark Orchant. Others cited Project, Visio and Excel as being the crucial applications that they just can't replace. Looks like there's still an opportunity out there for an enterprising developer who wants to take on the Redmond giant. Here's this week's question:

With Yahoo's acquisition of Konfabulator earlier this week, widgets were front and center like never before. For a lot of people, though, the kerfuffle over Konfab drew a big question mark. Though Apple may have helped make widgets more of a mainstream concept with OSX Tiger's Dashboard, the fact is that many computer users still see widgets as little more than eye candy; nice to look at, but no substitute for full-fledged apps. So, this week, we put the question to you: do you find widgets useful or not? And if you find them useful, what do you use them for? Post your answer in the Comments section below. And, if you'd like to have your question included here, send it to us using this form. We'll post one question each week.

And for more on widgets, check out this post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog.
 
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