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Apple Dashboard Widgets Available
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BornAgainMac
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MacSA said:
Which widgets are those? I don't see it. Well, perhaps the calculator. The U.S. educational system needs work. 😱
Rod Rod
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It's almost like the premature specification of June 2003. Anyhow, many of those same widgets (if not all of them) are already available at other sites, such as www.thedashboarder.com.d.perel said:
Jaffa Cake
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A little 'vidiprinter' widget would be cool for a Saturday afternoon for final scores and goalflashes. Might have to look into that...tny said:
Here's a couple of widgets I'm working on with another guy (he's coding, I'm doing the graphics).
Tracker Parcel tracking.
Eventually this will support several services.
Fuel Guage See how much HD space is available.
Both will be available from http://www.widgetdeveloper.com/ as soon as we've finished them. The guy I'm working with has some other widgets in the pipeline. Also, we're looking for suggestions... so post them here if you'd like us to work on it.
Tracker Parcel tracking.
Eventually this will support several services.
Fuel Guage See how much HD space is available.
Both will be available from http://www.widgetdeveloper.com/ as soon as we've finished them. The guy I'm working with has some other widgets in the pipeline. Also, we're looking for suggestions... so post them here if you'd like us to work on it.
A solitare widget, niiice. Now all they have to do is make a free mahjong widget, and my mum will finally stop missing Windows.
(And no, I'm not joking)
(And no, I'm not joking)
Fabio_gsilva
macrumors 6502
I wondering if any of these widgets will be useful here in Brazil, to me... I think some of them yes, like google, wheather and some other commented here (like solitare!! 😉 ) but I don't see many other utilities... Fed Ex, for example, hardly anybody uses it... I think that in 3 or 4 years we will benefit more from these things.
First of all, I'll need to sign a fast Internet because a dialed one, like I do now, with a 33.600 modem, will simply kill the biggest advantges of the Tiger new apps...
I'll order my Mini in May 10th. Will Tiger come pre-installed?
First of all, I'll need to sign a fast Internet because a dialed one, like I do now, with a 33.600 modem, will simply kill the biggest advantges of the Tiger new apps...
I'll order my Mini in May 10th. Will Tiger come pre-installed?
Widgets don't take up much bandwidth to get their information, and it shouldn't be too hard to modify a tracking widget to work for a local courier. It's not as grim as you'd suggest!
It really seems like widget development has exploded... there's so much talk, and so many being developed.
It really seems like widget development has exploded... there's so much talk, and so many being developed.
Wouldn't it be great if you could launch widgets as Applications? Then they'd show up in the Dock! You could show just the ones you want at any time. You could quit them without calling them up. You could leave them there permanently for easy access, or have them just disappear when you quit them.
Oh wait...
Dashboard is pointless flash to compete with Lornhorn's pointless flash.
Oh wait...
Dashboard is pointless flash to compete with Lornhorn's pointless flash.
Security
Does anyone know what security considerations have been built into Dashboard? I've read that widgets have access to Cocoa classes so can pretty much do anything on the system - I'd hope that Apple have designed some sort of sandboxing in there, otherwise it could end up being a nightmare along the same lines as ActiveX (although not quite that bad).
Does anyone know what security considerations have been built into Dashboard? I've read that widgets have access to Cocoa classes so can pretty much do anything on the system - I'd hope that Apple have designed some sort of sandboxing in there, otherwise it could end up being a nightmare along the same lines as ActiveX (although not quite that bad).
How do you delete a widget? I spotlighted tile game and dragged it into the trash, but when I open the dashboard the tile game remains but it's icon is changed and it can't open. Seeing this I put tile game back into its widget folder and now it runs again, but the icon hasn't changed. It has the same icon as the dashboard.app, any suggestions?
Edit: It seems resetting the comp changes the icon back. Still, how to delete it?
Edit: It seems resetting the comp changes the icon back. Still, how to delete it?
quackattack said:
What happens when Apple runs out of big-cat names? Will they start using Mean sounding names like?
Mac OS X v10.? "Rottweiler"
Mac OS X v10.? "Wolverine"
Go get'em Tiger!
Early Tiger user.
Okay, after pressing F12 a few dozen times and flipping the widgets once or twice I just may forget that Dashboard exists. Spotlight is handy although the interface (yes yet another interface for Mac OS X) is a little confusing. There are lots of little adjustments and additions all over the place which I guess may be useful when you remember to look for them. Tiger may be the first X update that most users will feel a little let down, especially after all the hype coming from Apple and the rumor/discussion sites. It's good but be prepared not to be blown away.
Okay, after pressing F12 a few dozen times and flipping the widgets once or twice I just may forget that Dashboard exists. Spotlight is handy although the interface (yes yet another interface for Mac OS X) is a little confusing. There are lots of little adjustments and additions all over the place which I guess may be useful when you remember to look for them. Tiger may be the first X update that most users will feel a little let down, especially after all the hype coming from Apple and the rumor/discussion sites. It's good but be prepared not to be blown away.
stcanard
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johnnowak said:
Good news then! All of these widgets have a desktop equivalent. Try running calculator and see how much it looks like the calculator widget.
Just because you don't see a point for dashboard doesn't mean it's not useful for other people. As a bike commuter in a mountain climate I check the weather reports _a lot_, and it's always been a pain to keep opening a browser and going to weathernetwork.ca. A weather report is not worth an icon in my dock, and I really don't need it running beside other apps. But with the weather widget, F12 gives me fast access to the weather, and at the same time I can see the stickies I've put up (which have always been useless in the desktop because they just get buried under windows and I never see them).
Ditto for the dictionary and calculator, which are usually one off things anyway (I can't count how many times on my work computer I go through start->run->calc, it's great to just have it running in the background), and for the stock ticker so I can watch stock prices.
It's like expose -- does it look flashy? Yes. Is it absolutely necessary to use a computer? No. Does it improve productivity? Absolutely.
keep waiting...
they are not the same. you can't leave widgets on your desktop permanently like with konfabulator... a major missing feature in my book.
Bubbasteve said:
they are not the same. you can't leave widgets on your desktop permanently like with konfabulator... a major missing feature in my book.
I was curious about leaving them on the desktop full time like Konfabulator. I usually have my to-do list and weather widgets always on screen. Bummer. Anyways I think someone needs to man up and design a widget just like Konfabulator's Gmail Geiger. It's basically a widget that appears when you have mail in your Gmail account and it shows you how many new messages.
stcanard
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Fourbin said:
Just curious, but if you want it on your desktop, why don't you just run an app? I picture using dashboard for all that informational stuff that I just don't want on my desktop, because it will clutter the screen and get stuck behind all the other windows where I won't notice it anyway.
You mean like this? 😀