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Kodi has greater basic hardware requirements than traditional 2D style software applications: it needs a 3D capable graphics hardware controller for all rendering. Powerful 3D GPU chips are common today in most modern computer platforms, including many set-top boxes, and XBMC, now Kodi, was from the start designed to be otherwise very resource-efficient, for being as powerful and versatile a ...
Mac OS X uses Cocoa. Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X used to use Carbon for 32-bit applications. The Windows API used in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft had the graphics functions integrated in the kernel until 2006 [1] The Haiku operating system uses an extended and modernised version of the Be API that was used by its predecessor BeOS. Haiku is expected ...
djmount, free software to mount as a Linux filesystem the media content of compatible UPnP AV devices. Gnome Videos (Totem), a free and open-source Media Player part of the GNOME desktop, via the grilo plugin. upmpdcli, a free and open-source UPnP media renderer front end to MPD, the Music Player Daemon
Web gadgets run on Web sites such as Live.com and Windows Live Spaces. Live.com lets users add RSS feeds in order to view news at a glance. Building off Microsoft's start.com experimental page, Live.com can be customized with Web Gadgets, mini-applications that can serve almost any purpose (e.g. mail readers, weather reports, slide shows, search, games, etc.).
It could run on a Mac or a Windows PC with an optical drive. A client MacBook Air (lacking an optical drive) could then wirelessly connect to the other Mac or PC to perform system software installs. Remote Install Mac OS X was released as part of Mac OS X 10.5.2 on February 12, 2008. Support for the Mac mini was added in March 2009, allowing ...
This is a comparison of widget engines. This article is not about widget toolkits that are used in computer programming to build graphical user interfaces . General
On May 23, 2006, the Universal binary of the Yahoo Widget Engine, version 3.1.4, was made available to users of Intel-based Macintosh computers. In August 2006, Perry Clarke, the original engineer of the Mac version of the widget engine, left the Yahoo Widgets team, [19] followed later by Arlo Rose himself. In August 2008, Ed Voas, who ...
The Wikipedia Widget, in Dashboard running under Mac OS X v10.4 [3] Early developer version of Plasma Desktop with Plasmoids. Desktop widgets (commonly just called widgets) are interactive virtual tools for a desktop environment that provide single-purpose services such as showing the user the latest news, the current weather, the time, a calendar, a dictionary, a map program, a calculator ...