Good morning,
Description of what "widgets" are:
Yahoo! Widget Engine 3.0
Keep the stuff that you love right at your fingertips.
Bring life to your desktop with fun, stylish,
and useful Yahoo! Widgets.
To get Widgets on your desktop, you first need
to download the Yahoo! Widget Engine.
The website is there:(formerly,it was Konfabulator)
http://widgets.yahoo.com/ 8)
Have a good day.