Yahoo! Widgets recently announced an upgrade of its desktop platform to version 4.5. What does that mean? A ton of cool new features and widgets for us to use!

One of the major changes is that Yahoo! Widgets now supports Flash and HTML, in addition to JavaScript. This means that Web widgets can now easily turn into desktop widgets, like my favorite Video Search widget from PageFlakes. (I use it to search for videos across different sites.) With these new upgrades, Yahoo! is working with the Web’s best distribution platforms, including Netvibes, Clearspring, and MuseStore.

With more than 4,300 widgets available now and many more to come, Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 also provides some great search, rate, review, and tag features. So it’s really easy to find what I want. One desktop widget I’m really loving these days is the Streaming TV Widget that I use to watch TV shows right on my media player.

There’s definitely a lot going on here. Keep an eye out for cool new widgets in the coming weeks, like the All-Star Ballot Widget from the NBA and the RockYou Slide Show Widget!

- The Digital Home Guru

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