Globe

Globe is a lightweight Yahoo! widget whose purpose is to help you animate the looks of your screen by placing a spinning globe. You need to have the Yahoo! Widget Engine deployed on the target computer in order to make use of the gadget’s capabilities and install it on all Windows versions out there.

You can add Globe to your existing suite of Yahoo! widgets with ease. It takes nothing more than a few clicks in order to complete the process successfully. Right-clicking on the gadget helps you access the available configuration settings.

You cannot find extra tips about how to configure the setup options, but you can manage to get an idea about how Globe works in a short amount of time. You are allowed to hide or close the widget and move it to the preferred position on the screen using drag-and-drop actions.

Globe offers you the possibility to choose between two preset size profiles of the rotating globe, namely small and smaller. You are allowed to choose between different rotation speed options from a drop-down list (namely still, slow, medium, fast).

You can also appeal to some extra configuration parameters implemented by the Yahoo! Widget Engine platform in order to keep Globe on top of other panels, ignore all mouse events, turn off the option used for dragging the main window with the mouse, as well as set the opacity of the widget pretty quickly thanks to the integrated bar.

To sum things up, Globe comes packed with several basic and intuitive features for helping you show an animated spinning globe on your screen which supports different size and rotation speed options. It can be configured by less experienced users and professionals alike.