Widget

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Widget may refer to:

• Widget (economics), a placeholder name for an object or, more specifically, a mechanical or other manufactured device
• Widget (beer), a small bead-like device placed in the bottom of cans and bottles of beer to aid in the generation of froth
• Widget (comics), a character in Marvel Comics
• Widget (Ryman Comics), Sidekick in Famous Comic Series "The Adventures of Ryman"
• Widget (TV series) (aka Widget the World Watcher), a 1990s limited animated television series
  • Widget (video game), a 1992 NES game developed by Atlus Co and licensed from the animated tv series.
• Nickname of the New York World Journal Tribune, a defunct newspaper
• Widget UK, a UK based personal electronics distributor
• Widget drive, a proprietary hard drive developed by Apple Computer used only in the Apple Lisa computer system.
• USAF E-9A Widget

In computing, the term has become frequently used to refer to objects on a computer screen the user interacts with:

• Widget engine, a software system for running applets on the web, desktop or mobile phone
• GUI widget, a component of a graphical user interface with which a user interacts
• Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications
• Web widget, a physically-inspired applet on the web

[edit] See also

• Widget Workshop, a science-based computer game developed by Maxis

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