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Do People Still Use Dashboard?

Do you still use Dashboard?

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Dmac77

Dmac77

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Jan 2, 2008
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Today I accidentally engaged dashboard on my iMac, and it got me thinking about how long it had been since I used Dashboard; I realized it was before the 1st of the year.

Personally I find that Dashboard runs slowly for me under Snow Leopard (on a mid '07 iMac), but today when I engaged it under Lion it was fairly snappy, so that kills one of my chief complaints regarding Dashboard. I normally find it faster to just call up the calculator or pretty much any other quick reference app from spotlight (or Launchpad). Also after realizing how much RAM some widgets suck I pretty much disabled all of my Widgets about six months ago.

So do you still use Dashboard? If so why, and for what? If you don't use it frequently anymore, why don't you?

-Don
 
Hell yes. They better not ever take that away.
Dashboard works perfectly fine on my Mac (preinstalled with 10.6).

I use it to take small notes, for iStat Pro, weather, times across different zones, and I like having the movie icon.
 
No I don't. But I also admit that the quick swipe left on my laptop trackpad in Lion bringing it up quickly may make me rethink my opinion on it. As of now, I haven't really "used" it in years.
 
QuarterSwede said:
I use my iPhone now for everything I used to use Dashboard for.
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Exactly the same for me. I only used to use Dashboard for weather and stocks, and now both of those are followed much easier on the iPhone.

I do, however, think that Dashboard still has its place. If you're clever, you can use it for several nifty things, especially if you're trying to teach a new Mac user how to use OS X.
 
I use Stickies on Dashboard during phone calls to take quick notes.
I have a VAT calculator that I use frequently.
I also have a few Webclip widgets that I created.
 
I use Dashboard everyday since it became a feature in OS X. I use it for ESPN scoreboards, weather maps, iStat Pro, Time Map, and Currency Converter. I mostly use it for the quick access to score updates for the day's games.
 
QuarterSwede said:
My wife does. I use my iPhone now for everything I used to use Dashboard for.
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You know, now that I think about it, I probably do this more frequently than using Launchpad or Spotlight. I really didn't even think about it until you mentioned it.

-Don
 
I hardly use it and wouldn't mind if apple just removed it. Osx has been getting bloated now for the past fer versions. Having applemtrim out the fat would be nice and this is one area that contributes to the bloat
 
I use it often. I have a set of Timers on it counting down to good events in my life, weather, iCal events and a translator.
 
i use it daily. most used widgets are stickies, istat pro, conversions, calculator, weather, tv listings, woot status, and weather... i also have apps that are synced with my iphone, but it's so much more convenient to just hit F4 than to find and taptaptap the iphone.
 
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Weather every now and then, plus I have a few world clocks up there.
 
Oh yeah!!! pretty much every time i use my MBP. Hope it never goes away. I used to use it alot in my old mac mini(with 3rd party keyboard), but now use it even more with the dashboard button on the keyboard.

I mainly use it for stocks, weather, the awesome iStats Pro app and also for a couple more which are very usefull, ScreenshotPlus, the FlightTracker and the CountdownX.

Hope it will never goes away.

It feels like a bit of iOS on Mac OX to be honest, just wish the apps developed for the iPhone/iPad were developed for the Dashboard.
 
For me, its very useful.

Calculator, istat pro, clock, calendar, dictionary, three Weather Network locations, web clip from Toronto Fire Services showing latest callouts, and the isale app to show status of my latest ebay auctions.
 
Hardly ever. The only real reason I flip to it is for iStat and to see if my computer is running hot/something is using up a lot of CPU.

Aside from that, I can't really see any use for it as my phone potentially does everything that it can do.
 
I use it for a great package tracking App, Delivery Status touch. Syncs with computer, pad, pod and phone through Junecloud.
 
gameface said:
No I don't. But I also admit that the quick swipe left on my laptop trackpad in Lion bringing it up quickly may make me rethink my opinion on it. As of now, I haven't really "used" it in years.
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I completely agree. In 10.7 it just seems much more accessible, and I've been using it very frequently. Before 10.7 I never really used it.

-d
 
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