Remember Active Desktop?
October 24, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
Image: Screen Grab of Desktop by Jason Bean
I was reminded today of a feature I’d long forgotten about in Windows. The ability to place "active" content that was regularly updated via the Internet. When the feature first came out I guess you could call it the grandfather of what we now called widgets and sidebars, except before you could just put stuff wherever you wanted on your desktop, not just docked to a side of the screen.
Anyway, I was reminded of it today when I was checking some of my desktop settings to see if I could enlarge the …read more
