Looks like when it rains, it pours. As if the last two posts about widgets and launchers were not enough. Last week while cruising thru the net at low altitudes I bumped into k23 Productions. Though I have to say that most of their products are out of developement but they still have some neat stuff.

Firstly, there is Bar None. Like every other launcher, it lets you choose what you want on it of course, but unlike others the bar completely shrinks down to this one rectangle that’s always visible. I’m actually using it at work. Though I always feel like there is a bunch more settings that I would love to add to it. Fortunately, it’s under GPL, unfortunately I don’t really have much time in my hand. According to k23 Bar None has been superseded by Dock Bar. Though Dock Bar really just looked like it’s going to be something like RK Launcher.

Next, they have dotWidget. dotWidget is obviously something like Konfabulator (which by the way is going to hit version 2.0 in 9 days). I just tried it out briefly, so I can’t really conpare between the two in terms of usability of creating new widgets, but they both look very similar. The downfall of dotWidget however is the aviability of pre-made widgets. Since the program is only in verion 0.6, its widget collection is actually quite small. But still, some people just like to be different you know.

I promise no more widgets and launchers until Konfabulator 2.0.