The beauty and effectiveness of desktop widgets.
I've been using the pay version of DesktopX for over a year, and some of it's features are OK. I do find a bunch of widgets to be unstable, and it annoys me that many can't be easily re-positioned ...
For makers of widgets--modest little pieces of software that let people do things like play games, annotate photos, or send "pokes" to each other on Facebook or MySpace--it seems the buzz has turned ...