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Dashboard Widget Contest Winners

Porchland said:
Apple now has a WWDC blurb on the front page. It's in 90 days. Tiger is going to be the big topic at WWDC, so releasing there seems like obvious. Since Tiger will likely be locked in soon, I think Apple will use the time cushion to get its distribution together and actually be able to say, at WWDC, that Tiger is ready and that there are 1 million shrink-wrap copies waiting for orders.

That was more or less the iLife '05 strategy for MWSF. I ordered mine a few days after MWSF, and it came in the mail almost immediately.
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Steve Jobs should annouce Tiger's availability the same way he did during MWSF's announcement for the iPod Shuffle. Something along the lines of, "I hear the Apple store down the street has a few copies of Tiger..."

What a sight it would be to see a bunch of WWDC attendees rushing out of the Moscone center and running down the street... :D
 
mad jew said:
How do you do this? That'd be really cool. :cool:
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Much simpler to pair your Mac with your phone via Bluetooth and then text via Address Book – clcik on 'Mobile' to the left of the number and you get the option to send messages. Easy!

(just read some other posts - no this is not a plug-in but an integral part of Address Book)
 
aricher said:
Except that WikityWidget looks a bit more robust than stickies. Kind of sad that is all developers could come up with for a contest.
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Gonna have to agree with you there.
 
mainstreetmark said:
That plugin appears to want to use a bluetooth phone for SMS, not AIM/iChat.

I bought a LG PM-325 just cuz it had bluetooth in it, but alas, all it appears to be good for is headsets. I can pair it, but I can't use it for anything at all. :( I wanted to send/receive SMS w/ the computer, since i hate T9 word.
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Hmm, I dunno then. I haven't really tried that plug-in since my cell phone doesn't have BT... I'll be getting a new one this week though.
 
sw1tcher said:
Steve Jobs should annouce Tiger's availability the same way he did during MWSF's announcement for the iPod Shuffle. Something along the lines of, "I hear the Apple store down the street has a few copies of Tiger..."

What a sight it would be to see a bunch of WWDC attendees rushing out of the Moscone center and running down the street... :D
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Since developers get free copies of all OS X releases, Apple would probably be handling them out as people file out of the doors after the keynote.
 
nagromme said:
Just put the phone number (no punctuation) preceded by "+1" (for the US) into iChat as a "New Chat With User." For instance, send to "+18885551234". (Doesn't work directly from Address Book though, even in the AIM field, so you must paste the number into iChat each time.)
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Doesn't work in the UK either trying with my +44 UK number.

I'll have to stick with the Address Book SMSing - I've got 500 free texts a month in any case to send so not a big problem

Incidentally, I can't believe you have to pay to receive messages - perhaps the UK 'pay to send' model is why sending via iChat doesn't work over here
 
Address Book

Diatribe said:
Yes you can. The guy who won the contest also wrote an sms plug-in for Address Book.
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What plug in are you talking about? I am currently using iChat2Cell. Is that it. In any case this program is cool. It allows the mobile number of your address book to be used. You select the person and click Send SMS. It switches to iChat and initiates the message for you.

It is at www.ifthensoft.com
 
Applespider said:
Doesn't work in the UK either trying with my +44 UK number.

I'll have to stick with the Address Book SMSing - I've got 500 free texts a month in any case to send so not a big problem

Incidentally, I can't believe you have to pay to receive messages - perhaps the UK 'pay to send' model is why sending via iChat doesn't work over here
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Using the Address Book to text is so simple I'm amazed not more people do it - I find it one of the most handy features of OSX. Using the tiny phone keypad is fine for very short messages or if you're 11 years old, but for me the ability to use my Mac keyboard is great. You can also receive messages this way, so long as your phone is paired.
 
AgtAlpha said:
You're charged whatever you normally would be for sending the SMS. When you send with the Address Book or this new SMS Widget, the message is actually sent through your phone itself.
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But if you send through iChat as I described, you pay nothing--your phone is NOT involved, the Internet is used. The receiver pays what they normally would. 10 cents per message, for the people I know. But they only found that out AFTER I SMS'd them :D
 
nagromme said:
But if you send through iChat as I described, you pay nothing--your phone is NOT involved, the Internet is used. The receiver pays what they normally would. 10 cents per message, for the people I know. But they only found that out AFTER I SMS'd them :D
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You mean you pay to receive messages in the US? No wonder SMS has not really caught on over there - be a great way of annoying people you don't like, just send them dozens of text messages! :D
 
Also, to those who think these winners seem simple on the surface, and therefore they (or Dashboard as a whole) are disappointing...

SEEMING simple is a success in my book!

That goes for these widgets AND for a lot of what Apple has done over the years to hide complexity so well that it almost makes their programmers seem to have done less! On the surface.
 
Mass Chaos...great marketing

sw1tcher said:
Steve Jobs should annouce Tiger's availability the same way he did during MWSF's announcement for the iPod Shuffle. Something along the lines of, "I hear the Apple store down the street has a few copies of Tiger..."

What a sight it would be to see a bunch of WWDC attendees rushing out of the Moscone center and running down the street... :D
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I can see it now, sleeping bags lining Apple stores. By the way I am not knocking it I would probably have my own there.
 
Address Book SMS requires Bluetooth

It's a neat but not thoroughly well known. If you have a bluetooth enabled Mac and a paired bluetooth cell phone, you can turn on the SMS function in Address Book. It makes receiving and sending SMS messages a breeze.
 
Applespider said:
Doesn't work in the UK either trying with my +44 UK number.

I'll have to stick with the Address Book SMSing - I've got 500 free texts a month in any case to send so not a big problem

Incidentally, I can't believe you have to pay to receive messages - perhaps the UK 'pay to send' model is why sending via iChat doesn't work over here
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I'm glad to here that! I've been plugging away at my +44 number with no success. I'm using BT via Address Book with the ubiquitous Sony Ericsson T610. Seems to work OK.

The new widget seems really good - it'd be really nice just to have it on hand all the time rather than to delve into Address Book all the time.
 
Philsy said:
Much simpler to pair your Mac with your phone via Bluetooth and then text via Address Book – clcik on 'Mobile' to the left of the number and you get the option to send messages. Easy!

(just read some other posts - no this is not a plug-in but an integral part of Address Book)
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Actually, you can do it with any phone number, not just those marked "mobile" - though, of course, it won't work with the non-cellular numbers. But it works fine with numbers not expressly labeled "mobile". As mentioned, AB must be paired with a BT phone - the BT button at the top of the AB window will be blue.
 
jsw said:
Actually, you can do it with any phone number, not just those marked "mobile" - though, of course, it won't work with the non-cellular numbers.
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Ah... something that does work in the UK. If you accidentally send an SMS to a landline now, British Telecom pick it up for you and call you. When you answer, you get the SMS number and message read out to you - which sounds pretty much like OS X trying to read stuff to you.

Of course, while on the mobile, you know who's sent you the message since it comes with the person's name from the address book. Over the phone, you end up trying to figure out who it's from in context or desperately trying to remember part of the number so you can go look it up in Address Book
 
It seems like most the widgets are already available in a different form now. Many of which can be found it sherlock and the current calculator. Mostly just the form is changing. I hope they develop this.
 
Philsy said:
You mean you pay to receive messages in the US? No wonder SMS has not really caught on over there - be a great way of annoying people you don't like, just send them dozens of text messages! :D
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That's really hard to believe. Why would anybody pay for incoming 'calls' without being asked first? I've never heard of anybody paying for receiving SMS in Europe.

Maybe the people sending SMS over the internet simply use a service offered by a company trying to attract traffic (and therefore ad revenue and also customers for additional paying services). These companies allow you to send a limited number of SMS for free through their webpage. They naturally get a big discount from the mobile operators (or they are operators themselves).

In my case my university is offering this service, allowing me to send SMS by sending an e-mail to special e-mail address.
 
Macrumors said:
WikityWidget which is a personal notepad which "lets you easily jot down and organize notes with hypertext links so they're easy to find and instantly available via the Mac*OS*X Tiger Dashboard".
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This will be only cool when they turn caps lock on, and disable half of the keys....

TXTN S KEWL UR SXY

XTRM DOOOD
 
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