Enabling real-time content on a Windows desktop. Introduced with Internet Explorer 4.0 in 1997 for Windows 95 and Windows NT, Web pages could be turned into desktop items that were updated ...

February 9, 2006 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google and the fact I was fiddling around with my desktop properties. This page could be a real cool desktop ...

I can see that, in theory, it could be useful for systems with a persistent network/internet connection. But hey, I'm not an imaginative guy. Are there any good examples of active desktop use that ...

How can you make your Windows desktop more useful-for example, have it deliver the news? Well, via a generally neglected (and discarded!) Desktop feature called Active Desktop, which has been around ...

Anyone who used computers in 1997 might get a feeling of deja vu when they use one of Internet Explorer 8’s most-hyped new features, WebSlices. WebSlices seems like nothing so much as a clone of the ...

An enhancement to the Mac OS X operating system under development by Apple looks to pave the way for active desktop pictures, or desktop backgrounds that can include motion graphics and alter ...