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Dashboard Widgets in the UK
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This is something I have wondered too (although it didn't stop me from purchasing tiger!). I have had problems with many similar apps for all OSs due to the apps being made entirely for the US market. I hope apple hasn't had an oversight, or maybe a localisation pack will come out...
I think all the widgets will be apple to be used in the UK, Europe everywhere. Yellow pages you have everywhere...Flight imformation you can get everywhere...Weather everywhere...
So far to me it seems like every widget that apple offers is useable everywhere..well i am sure there are some smaller countries that most prolly wont be supported, but i would say atleast 80% would be...
So far to me it seems like every widget that apple offers is useable everywhere..well i am sure there are some smaller countries that most prolly wont be supported, but i would say atleast 80% would be...
The Apple site says the Yellow Pages widget searches US business numbers so it looks like that one might be out I think the Flight Tracker loses some functionality too but don't quite me on that. I personally will be quite disappointed if the Weather widget isn't rest of the world compatible...
I'm guessing we'll have to make our own then.
Shouldnt be too bad. I'm definately going to look into it as soon as my Tiger arrives. I was reading up on how widgets are made and its easy stuff. The hard part is coming up with a useful widget, rather than a gimmiky one. Conversion from US widgets to UK shouldnt be too hard providing there is a relevant UK resource (i.e. Amazon.com/.co.uk)
Jaffa - i notice your 40 mins drive from me - you got your Tiger disc yet?
I know apple quoted 29th April for me, but I'm envious of the Americans who've already got theirs!
Shouldnt be too bad. I'm definately going to look into it as soon as my Tiger arrives. I was reading up on how widgets are made and its easy stuff. The hard part is coming up with a useful widget, rather than a gimmiky one. Conversion from US widgets to UK shouldnt be too hard providing there is a relevant UK resource (i.e. Amazon.com/.co.uk)
Jaffa - i notice your 40 mins drive from me - you got your Tiger disc yet?
I know apple quoted 29th April for me, but I'm envious of the Americans who've already got theirs!
Cleethorpes...hee...sorry made me smile, memories of a bleak summer childhood holiday.
Back on topic, the dictionary being US English is just plain wrong...its ENGLISH. I'm stopping there before I start ranting about the cancereous US culture.
Back on topic, the dictionary being US English is just plain wrong...its ENGLISH. I'm stopping there before I start ranting about the cancereous US culture.
The flight tracker in Sherlock worked with international flights so that one might be OK.
Someone on dashboardwidgets.com has come up with a partial UK Yell.com one. You can put the search term in on the widget but the results still open in Safari.
I get the feeling that there are more Mac users in the UK now than there were in the Sherlock days and from what I've read, it's easier to create a widget than it was to create a Sherlock channel so I'm hopeful that we'll end up with local developers making international widgets.
Someone on dashboardwidgets.com has come up with a partial UK Yell.com one. You can put the search term in on the widget but the results still open in Safari.
I get the feeling that there are more Mac users in the UK now than there were in the Sherlock days and from what I've read, it's easier to create a widget than it was to create a Sherlock channel so I'm hopeful that we'll end up with local developers making international widgets.
crap freakboy said:
It's sort of correct to be in US English
The local (as per computer specs at least) is EN and this is US english. It would not be so bad is OSX had proper EN_gb (which I believe is the local for UK English) support.
robbieduncan said:
Yeah, en_GB is proper English, and OS X support for it is very small. RealPlayer is the only app I've seen that supports it.
I'm sure that some 3rd party developers will write some UK friendly Widgets. Konfabulator has some so no doubt there will be some for Dashboard in time. I certainly hope so as it pains me to know that every time I look at the Google search bar in Safari it is Google.com and not .co.uk - I know that Acidsearch fixes that but after 10.3.9 Acidsearch made Safari unuseable. I wish Apple had given the option for international Google searches in Tiger
No such luck I'm afraid!pulsewidth947 said:
Anyway, looking at Apple's site and what's been discussed here it looks like us non US-types won't do too badly from the default widgets, and worse case scenario we can go third party. Any Europeans lucky enough to get Tiger delivered early care to fill us in?
My Tiger order's still saying 'Open'
I wonder if it's too late to cancel? My office is only 2mins away from the Bullring Apple Store which is opening on Friday, so I could pick up a copy from there. (and free t-shirt hopefully)
But saying that, I got my copy of iLife a day before the UK release date.
I wonder if it's too late to cancel? My office is only 2mins away from the Bullring Apple Store which is opening on Friday, so I could pick up a copy from there. (and free t-shirt hopefully
) But saying that, I got my copy of iLife a day before the UK release date.
All of these widges had/have the potential to be setup to work world wide. However, apple have made the choice of not allowing you to select your country on the flip side of yellow pages - OR the dictionary. However, the weather widget does work in the UK.
At least in my tiger anyway - which I got in the UK.
At least in my tiger anyway - which I got in the UK.
Sky Blue said:
I did read somewhere that someone ordering Tiger over the phone in the UK was told that unlike the US, there is no guarantee of delivery on 29th here. And it was more likely that they wouldn't ship until 28th/29th. So yes, next week may be more likely particularly with the bank holiday in the middle.
I work for a UK retailer and our retail copies aren't scheduled to arrive at our main warehouse until 28th.
Jaffa Cake said:
I'm in goole - about fourty mins from each of you guys - no tiger yet - though apple shipped it yesterday afternoon - so I'm off work looking for the welcome orange truck pulling up alongside my house
There'll be tons of 3rd-party widgets in a few weeks. That's the concept behind dashboard. Have a look at dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/
They already have listed 84 widgets and tiger isn't officially released yet. Be patient - this thing will rock!!!!
They already have listed 84 widgets and tiger isn't officially released yet. Be patient - this thing will rock!!!!