Speedfan as a Yahoo Widget...

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:41 pm

You gotta try this.....first download Yahoo Widgets.....then download the Speedfan Widget. You have to have the real Speenfan program running. Now you can display a Speedfan reading as a Widget on the desktop, about like the MBM dashboard display. Makes it bigger and much easier to see.....different.

It's all free stuff...you can close the larger Speedfan Widget, and just leave the speedfan reading as a display in the Widget dock. Hard to explain....try it.

AuraAllan · Post by **AuraAllan** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:53 am

Sounds interesting.

Maybe some screenshots could explain it better?

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:00 am

Ok....for the lazy people. The first view shows the dock only opened, configured to stay on top.

The second view shows the desktop with two widgets opened. The picture is a running slideshow. All these maybe 5,000 different Widgets can be individually configured as to size, colors, etc. You have to individually download most of them. The main program contains a bunch however. The dock can be auto-hidden, arranged on any edge, etc.....

Firetech · Post by **Firetech** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:15 am

any chance of links to larger versions of those screenshots?
They're a little small for us old folks...

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:18 am

Uh...no. You need to use Firefox, and download the "zoom-image" add-on. Right click on the image and you can zoom it up to 400%. Maybe just put on your glasses....

wwenze · Post by **wwenze** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:01 am

Wow now that's a cool app.

If only my Speedfan had any rpm to show...

Firetech · Post by **Firetech** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:17 am

Bluefront wrote: You need to use Firefox,

I do

download the "zoom-image" add-on. Right click on the image and you can zoom it up to 400%.

I did and can now get a beautiful 'pixelated mosaic thing' going on at 200% & 400% due to zooming in on a low resolution image......

Bluefront · Post by **Bluefront** » Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:57 am

Heh....just what part of that image do you need to see at hi-res? The images I upload are always around 50k, since I'm on a dial-up. sorry...

Post by **Rusty075** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 9:19 pm

For those that have made the switch there's also a handy Vista Sidebar gadget for Speedfan as well. Works like the Yahoo one...it pulls info from the regular Speedfan app that you have running in the background.

Partial screen shot:

AuraAllan · Post by **AuraAllan** » Tue Dec 25, 2007 7:06 am

Bluefront wrote:Ok....for the lazy people.

Thanks