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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Started conversation Aug 12, 2005
There are two very neat desktop products that essentially do the same thing - Konfabulator (now owned by Yahoo!) and Dashboard (part of Mac OS X).
http://www.konfabulator.com/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/dashboard/
It would be really neat to have an h2g2 widget in either or both of those systems. They are essentially just a very simple html page with some css and maybe some javascript. A basic h2g2 widget would have a search box, an Infinite Improbability Drive link.
Then people could read entries quickly and conveniently, from their desktops. 
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dElaphant (and Zeppo his dog (and Gummo, Zeppos dog)) - Left my apostrophes at the BBC Posted Aug 12, 2005
Just to make it more unlikely that this will ever happen, there is a third utility to consider
http://www.stardock.com/products/desktopx/
But to make it more likely again, the BBC has experience doing this:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2005/07/bbc_listen_live.html
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Sep 13, 2005
I've just converted to Mac and would love to see this happen.
Hmmm...
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