Bring the power of desktop widgetery to your Windows 2000, XP or 2003 PC! Through the use of simple yet powerful scripts, you can bring your desktop to life with widgets that do just about anything you can imagine

dotWidget is a Windows application that runs in the background and allows you to install and display small screen objects (widgets) that perform specific and useful tasks. There are many widgets already available for dotWidget including calendars, clocks, weather displays, news feed readers, and picture viewers.

All dotWidget widgets are written using VBscript. This means that anyone with a little knowledge of scripting and a simple text editor (like Microsoft Notepad) can learn to create their own widgets for dotWidget. Since widgets are based on simple script files that can be opened and viewed in a text editor, existing widgets can be easily modified, improved on, and then released back into the community for everyone's benefit.

Here are some key features of "dotWidget":

· Unique 'Gripper' allows for easy positioning of widgets.
Activating a widget displays a small icon over the widget - the 'gripper' - use this to move the widget around the screen as you would a normal window and right-click it to open the widget's menu, which gives access to the widget's generic settings and other dotWidget functionality. Don't forget that you can still click on the widget itself to access functionality it provides!

· Enhanced 'Click Through' feature. When a widget is set to Click Through it ignores mouse and keyboard events and instead passes them through to the window below. However, dotWidget still knows when the mouse is over a widget and displays the gripper - just like it would for a regular widget!

· Powerful built-in script objects. Create and display pop-up menus, initiate asynchronous HTTP requests, grab forecasts from Weather.com, check your Google Mail account, and query a multitude of system information - all from a few simple commands in a VB script!

· Reclaim the notification tray! dotWidget doesn't put an unnecessary icon in the system tray; instead you can access all functionality through any active widget. In addition, pressing CTRL+F9 will launch dotDashboard which pops all widgets to the foreground and and shows any hidden widgets.

· No large downloads. dotWidget doesn't rely on large additional downloads, such as the .net framework. XP users should find themselves up and running instantly; Windows 2000 users may need to download the Microsoft GDI+ library (about 1 MB in size).

· Easy on resources. Even in this day of home PCs with 512 MB and more of memory, dotWidget is very light on both RAM and CPU resources - using on average 2 MB for the base core, then around 1 MB per widget loaded. CPU utilization under normal use is similarly light - around the 1% mark