Klipfolio: A Customizable Dashboard
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I’m
not a huge fan of dashboards that take up valuable space on the monitor
and I dislike the Windows Vista Sidebar mainly because of its
inflexibility and resource consumption. Klipfolio
on the other hand is a customizable dashboard for Windows that uses
less system resources and provides better options than the Windows
Vista sidebar.
The first thing that I noticed was that it is highly flexible. It is
possible to increase and decrease the size of the whole dashboard or of
single Klips, to dock it to edges of the screen and even create
separate dashboards and place them in different locations on the
screen. This means you could dock one part of the dashboard that is
displaying information about the computer, memory, cpu and hard drive
usage, in a bar at the top of the screen and another part of the
dashboard in the right sidebar that is displaying RSS Feeds, Gmail
Messages and other information.
The sidebars can be set to automatically hide the contents, stay
always on top or behave normal. Winamp users will recognize the way Klipfolio
handles and connects the single elements of the dashboard because it
looks and feels like an advanced version of the way Winamp handles the
separate program windows for years.
The image above is showing the compact dashboard that is not docked
to any part of the screen. Each Klip can be customized in numerous
ways. The layout can be changed which I briefly mentioned already. Far
more interesting is the Alert option. This option can display a popup
message and / or play a sound when new items are added, items change or
specific words appear in the item.
More than 4000 Klips are available on the Klipfolio
homepage. Each Klip can be downloaded and installed individually. One
excellent feature are the so called Klip Sets which are themed Klip
collections. You can find sets for gaming, poker and tools for instance.
Klipfolio is exactly what I wished the
Windows Vista sidebar would have been. That pretty much sums it up. It
uses less resources, offers way more ways to customize the layout and
provides the user with more ways to customize each individual item.
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