LBadvance
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| [Tiger POLL] Have u gone widget crazzzy?
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Anyways, does anyone know of a widget which displays the time big in digital?
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lagomorph
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Earth | theyre not that great, but they are convenient at times, Myself am not to crazy. |
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hyperjoe
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Until someone crates a widget that is useful besides the weather one, I refuse to say that widgets are helpful. I wish there was an easy way of turning it off.
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T_Wrecks
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They're okay.
I like the weather one...and the yellow pages one is helpful, too.
Just last night, I installed the traffic one on my wife's profile. Now, when I'm leaving work, I can call her and find out if I should brace myself for delays.
I like the idea of widgets. I'm just waiting for some cooler ones to come out.
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Mike
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It's more of a "hey look what it can do" type of feature than, wow I use this everyday and it's so helpful!
If it were up to me, I'd just nuke it at get my 25% processor resources free on both CPUs....
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jtk7
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I'm indifferent about them... I can't really figure out when I'm supposed to use them though, since once you have Dashboard open you can't use any other windows. Or else I just haven't figured it out yet.
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teach
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have yet to upgrade and for the first time, I'm not in a real hurry since to be able to use all the features of tiger, one needs a $2,000 machine.
the widgets to me are what IE is to windows. I find this system wide stuff somewhat disturbing and would feel safer with Konfab's widgets and at the moment I have none.
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Tex Longhorn
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| After much of the hype settled down, I tried a bunch of widgets out, and realized they werent really all too useful. Info is limited and they consume memory & processing power.
On a side note, is there a way of getting the Dashboard not to load? It loads even if there are no widgets displayed.
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Johnny
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Hey, I just noticed that in 10.4.1 you can use SnapZ Pro to do the screen capture. I don't think this worked before - we had to use timed capture with Grab.
Try using one of the screen corners (Exposé corners) to trigger Dashboard. It works a lot smoother for me than using F12. Depends on whether you are 90% mouse or 90% keyboard. I have the right lower corner set for Dashboard, and I can just sling the mouse there, check something, and click through to get out of Dashboard. |
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bobrk
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| Hmmm. Cmd-shift 3
and Cmd-shift 4
seem to be working fine for me.
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bobrk
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| Cmd-shift-4-spacebar works, too:
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Homunculus
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Widgets are just overly redundant. I have apps that I use regularly that do everything I need. Except Hula Homer. |
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LBadvance
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I think widgets are useful when it reads info from programs. I esp. like the widget that reads the To-Do and ical and also the the one that reads the events from ical. Unfortunately the later one only read events within the next 24 hrs. I emailed the author if he could extend it to a week.
Anyways, does anyone know of a program that displays the time in digital form and is big?
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splix
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Oakton, VA | reply to LBadvance
Widgets are ok I suppose. I only use the weather for the most part. I also use the yellow pages and the screenshot widget. |
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rjackson
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said by LBadvance  :Anyways, does anyone know of a program that displays the time in digital form and is big? If you have a lot of money, I will make one for you. |
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prwood
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I feel the same way about Dashboard Widgets in Tiger as I did about the Dock magnification feature when Mac OS X first came out. Nice eye candy, but mostly useless and time-wasting.
I much prefer menubar widgets (since my menubar is always visible) and web pages (since I am working in a web browser 99% of the time) to provide the peripheral sort of information that Dashboard provides.
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BellBoy
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When I saw Tiger at MWSF I saw this coming...unless the developers get behind this and start cranking out some really useful stuff, I fear that widgets will become a seldom used feature in Tiger for most folks.
That being said, the widgets that I use the most (which is maybe once a day) is to view the different world clocks so I know when I can talk to friends in different places around the world. The weather is nice to see once in awhile, but I hardly have any widgets up at all.
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yabos
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I hardly have any open, just the weather one and the calculator.
If they didn't take up so much virtual memory I might reconsider. I was at the Apple Yorkdale store on Saturday and they had maybe 8-10 widgets open. VM usage was almost 10GB. That's pretty unacceptable to me. |
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said by prwood :I feel the same way about Dashboard Widgets in Tiger as I did about the Dock magnification feature when Mac OS X first came out. Nice eye candy, but mostly useless and time-wasting. Ironically, I bet two things do more to sell Macs than anything else. Someone at work wanted me to show him Tiger/OS X, so I loaded up a bunch of widgets and turned on dock magnification, he loved it. Of course I explained neither of these do much for your productivity, but he was impressed nonetheless. Then I showed him Exposé and explained how it really does do a lot for productivity, he was hooked on that too.
I personally find dock magnification annoying, because it turns my dock icons into moving targets when I'm trying to click on one. But it's always one of the first things I turn on when I'm "showing off". |
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