A couple of months ago I’d heard that the BBC Radio Labs had developed a desktop widget that scrobbled the songs you listen to on BBC Radio (currently only available for Radio 1, Radio 2, 6 Music and 1 Xtra) [via Last.fm]
I’m not a big fan of gimmicky desktop widgets - it’s bad enough that Vista comes with them as default – some people love them, some hate them… I just prefer less clutter on my desktop!
The other day I was listening to a lot of Radio 1… to which I thought it would be nice to have these songs scrobbled on my Last.fm profile. So I bit the bullet and downloaded Yahoo! Widgets and the BBC Radio + Last.fm widget. (OS X widget is also available)
So far I’ve been fairly impressed with the way it works. That is, once I’d hidden all the gimmicky widgets – yes I already have a clock in my taskbar; the weather outside is cold and wet… I know this already, this is England after all!
Out of all the widget environments for Windows, I have to say that Yahoo is the best. Well, it’s a rebranded Konfabulator, really.
I got rid of the clock in my taskbar, so I could justify using the widget clock. I have all of this screen real estate. I have to fill it with something.