Discovered Something Cool

[Nelson Atwell]

This may be off-topic, but I stumbled upon Yahoo! Widgets, which can be attached to your desktop wallpaper. There are 100's of useful gadgets. Here is a shot of my desktop wallpaper:



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[Rodger Tellefson]

Are you aware of the interesting thing about that Lotus? I was talking to a guy that has one, and it uses a Toyota engine; at least that is what he told me.

 

[Tim Capps]

No actually the stateside Lotus Elise uses a Honda 1.8L Integra Type R Motor. the over seas version does use a toyota celica block and rotating assembly, but the heads and intake are totally different.

 

[Nelson Atwell]

Yes, that is one of the nice features. It uses an engine that is low-maintenance and has parts readily available. It is my dream car. If my daughter manages to get a full-scolarship to college, I'll probably buy one...heck I might even buy one for her if she pulls it off! She has straight A's in all pre-AP courses as a ninth-grader. Cumulative GPA over 4.1



edit: Here is some data on the Toyota engine used in al Lotus Elise vehicles (including the USA) -- see link.

 

[Raser x]

My wife has been using MAC widgets for two years, They came with a system10 upgrade. Now I have butterflys and smiley faces as well as the weatherbug and half a dozen other floaters all over the desk top.....slightly annoying and highly useful.....:lol:

 

[Matt Day]

No actually the stateside Lotus Elise uses a Honda 1.8L Integra Type R Motor. the over seas version does use a toyota celica block and rotating assembly, but the heads and intake are totally different.

Huh? not accoring to Car and Driver

"The lovely little Elise will go on sale in America next spring as a 2005 model. The U.S. car will be powered by a version of the 1.8-liter Toyota four-banger found in the Celica GT-S. It will make 190 horsepower and come with Toyota’s six-speed manual transmission. "

 

[Deleted deleted]

Thanks for that tip, Nelson. The app may be a resource hog, so I'm going to try it on a pc I don't care about first.





** Update **



Installed it on a test pc, each widget uses from 8 to 12mb of memory each, so be careful with loading very many widgets on lower-end PC's.