3 months in - how many widgets do you have installed?

[atari1356]

I pretty much only use the weather widget, dictionary/thesaurus, stickies... and Calculon of course. 😉

Although, the Piano widget is a fun novelty.

 

[yellow]

Ok some people may bash me with a wooden plank. But can someone explain what Widgets are, as well as Spotlight. 😱

How about Apple? http://www.apple.com/macosx/ (hint: use the Dashboard link for widget-explanation)

 

[atari1356]

Ok some people may bash me with a wooden plank. But can someone explain what Widgets are, as well as Spotlight. 😱

Spotlight and Dashboard Widgets are both features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. You can read about both of them here:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/

 

[puckhead193]

i have the weather one, ical events, the yahoo one, dictionary, wikepidia, yellowbook, calculator, sysStat, a stickie note, and the dancing homer...
I really only use the weather one... 😱
and spotlight, i never use, my computer is pretty well organized so finding stuff isn't a problem... 🙄

 

[ravenvii]

I only have three widgets installed other than the Apple preinstalled ones. Countdown Calendar, Dashflix Mini and Google Maps. I have Countdown Calendar, Calendar, Dashflix Mini, Weather and one or two stickies up constantly.

 

[swindmill]

I'm sort of surprised at how few widgets people seem to be using. I refer to my dashboard constantly. I have about 7 pages of widgets. The ones almost always up are:

miniCPU usage
miniBattery
miniFreeRAM
miniHD
miniCPU heat
miniUptime
Airport Radar
Network Stat
wakeonlan
CNN RSS reader
weather
calendar
dictionary
Stickies
iClip Lite
WIMIC
. . . and of course . . . Widget Watcher

I also have miniTetris up right now
I guess I'm a junky, but I find Dashboard very useful

 

[gwuMACaddict]

i've only downloaded about 10 extra ones...

i use

1. system tracker
2. earth quake monitor
3. sun location
4. baseball score tracker
5. alarm clock

 

[AlBDamned]

Use the dictionary/thesaurus loads and finding the calculator very handy which is a real surprise,

One real shocker though, is the Podcast 1 widget. Now I don't wan't to rub any republicans up the wrong way, but being able to listen to Dubya's speeches whenever I want is a great way to make me laugh.

Edit: iTunes and iTunes lyrics are good. The lyrics one doesn't like The Killers for some reason.

Ceefax (though it's a bit glitchy) is also good. Can't get the weather one to stay on UK though?

 

[mad jew]

Only about nine widgets here. And the only downloaded ones are the VersionTracker widget (not the official one, the search one), a cool ISP one that tells me how much I've downloaded and Air Traffic Control.

To be honest, I only really use the ISP one, the Address Book one and the weather one. 😱

 

[dsharits]

I have a total of 54 widgets installed, incluing the default set. Right now, I have 11 activ widgets, but I use Dashboard every day, so they change all the time.

 

[devilot]

At first I downloaded maybe, 10 or so widgets but I didn't use most of them so I deleted them. So now my downloaded widgets are: Soduku, Memory (that memory game, ya know, match up the two like images), Genius Bar, and Wikipedia.

For active widgets on dashboard, I run: Soduku, weather widget, iCal, calculator, and one Stickie (hee, bf left me a surprise sappy note one day, decided to keep it 😱).

 

[Nickygoat]

I've only got 4 extra widgets on my Dashboard - Amazon UK, BBC, Macrumors and one I've just got called All Recipes - we'll see if that one's useful. 4 weather widgets on as well - I just wish they'd stop moving or displaying the wrong info 🙁.

 

[msbsound]

Getting rid of them

how do u get rid of wigets? and is dashboard always up?

alex

As someone else stated, dashboard is not always up. I set mine to come up when I click a certain button on my mouse, otherwise, they are hidden.

As far as getting rid of them, while I am guessing there is an easier(aka more apple-esque) way, I just go into my user/library/widgets folder and drag the ones I don't want to the trash.

Oh and I downloaded packagetracker, movietimes, airport radar, and google maps. Just started using tiger about two days ago, so far, I have to say it's been good!

 

[Applespider]

As far as getting rid of them, while I am guessing there is an easier(aka more apple-esque) way, I just go into my user/library/widgets folder and drag the ones I don't want to the trash.

You can (tho obviously with 6 pages of widgets you can tell I don't use it often 😉 ) use the new Widget Manager in 10.4.2 (it's the first widget on page 1 or click the Manage Widget button) to delete 3rd party widget. Just click on the minus sign next to it to send it to oblivion

 

[Diatribe]

Let's see...

active:

• Stickies
• Calculon
• Wikipedia
• Google Maps
• Dictionary
• RAE diccionario (Spanish dictionary)
• Looking forward
• iCal events
• Flip Clock
• Fernsehen (German television)
• pearLyrics
• SunlitEarth
• Address Book
• Weather

not active:

• Air Traffic Control
• Fast Amazon
• Ebay Watcher
• Egg Timer

I check out a lot of stuff but most of my stuff gets deleted if I don't use it. Those for are the only ones I keep besides the ones that are active.

 

[nightdweller25]

I have 140 installed, but right now I'm on my stage where I'm not using Dashboard so none of them are in use.

 

[jalagl]

I only have two in addition to the apple stock ones:

Pearlyrics (can't live without it)
Wikipedia

 

[killmoms]

Ooh, PearLyrics sounds useful. I should grab that.

I've installed 4 third party widgets, Faster Amazon Search, Google Maps, Package Tracker, and RAD Movie Times. Of those I run the Amazon one all the time, and Google Maps frequently. The rest I run all the time are Apple stock ones: Calculator, Dictionary, Stocks, Calendar, Weather, and a Sticky.

 

[Lacero]

There were 800 widgets listed on the Apple.com homepage, but after the iBook announcement, the number magically increased to 900.

 

[pubwvj]

Zero.

 

[Stella]

I don't have many, mainly due to the resources they take up.. better under 10.4.2...

I have :

iCal events,
Notepad Widget x 3,
CeeFax
Google Map search
Command line
Weather x 2
Calendar,
Biobythms
Slothcam
This Day in History
Uptime

Err... it doesn't seem a lot of widgets.... it in fact, is it, in review.

 

[amin]

Lots installed, the following four currently in use: MailPop, Dash Monitors, Calendar, and Stickies.

 

[Kirbdog]

I have 5 pages installed including the stock Apple ones. I just weeded out the ones I do not use (I was up to 7 pages), I download them and give them a try, and end up being a widget pack rat. I find alot of useful ones and use them according to the project I am working on.
My Most Used Are:
IMDB
Calculator
Battery info
Flip Clock
Google Maps
Asteroids
Pac Man - You Gotta love this one
Font Viewer
mini CPU heat
Stickies
Wikipedia
Whistler Webcam
Widget manager

 

[mrgreen4242]

I've downloaded several, the ones in actual use, however, are:

SysStat
Wikity
Airport Radar
Calculon
Folding Tracker
Quicktime Fullscreen
Symphonic
iTunes Controller
Weather
BugMeNot
PHP.net Search
CSS Cheat Sheet