[ Thanks to kiterunner for this link.
]
“If you haven’t used Screenlets in your Ubuntu yet, it
is an excellent application to experiment with. And hundreds of
useful third party user contributed screenlets are available for
free. Here is a quick review of some of the best user contributed
screenlets available for Ubuntu GNOME.“Install Screenlets Manager
“Before getting started, you need to install screenlets manager
first. It is available in the default ubuntu repositories. Just
search for ‘screenlets’ in Ubuntu Software Center or simply do the
following in terminal.”