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OS X Dashboard Widget Recommendations?
Serious_Scrub
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Apple's website is pretty useless for navigating through widgets, and the entire dashboard widget thing didn't seem to be popular enough to get much coverage, so I can't seem to find anything I want, or anything that looks like I would want.
Is there a command line style calculator, with command history, variable storage, and so on? Sort of like a python interpreter with math functions only? I tried Calcboard, and that was a bit clumsy in implementation, and WidgetTerm, which could run python, seems to have been broken as of the Safari 4 update.
Also, general dashboard widget recommendations would be nice. Currently, I'm using:
iCal (just found out that clicking the leftmost part of the widget will reveal an iCal events pane)
Weather
Stickies (2 of them)
istat pro: http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ General System monitoring widget
Is there a command line style calculator, with command history, variable storage, and so on? Sort of like a python interpreter with math functions only? I tried Calcboard, and that was a bit clumsy in implementation, and WidgetTerm, which could run python, seems to have been broken as of the Safari 4 update.
Also, general dashboard widget recommendations would be nice. Currently, I'm using:
iCal (just found out that clicking the leftmost part of the widget will reveal an iCal events pane)
Weather
Stickies (2 of them)
istat pro: http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatpro/ General System monitoring widget
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When I set up a new mac I disable the Dashboard as soon as I can. It just eats up memory for things I really have no use for. Weather? I'd rather see hour-by-hour. iStat Menues is a better alternative too.
My take on dashboard widgets anyhow. It's just another desktop you'll never remember to use.
iStat Pro
TWC Radar
TWC 5-Day
Amazon Album Art Finder
Word of the Day
Dictionary/Thesaurus
Language Translator
Twidget
I set mine to a screen corner, like exposé.
I didn't think I'd use it for much, but after I got 10.4 I started using the calendar, dictionary, istat pro, address book search, and the wikipedia widgets pretty regularly. I just wish it didn't take so long to load initially.
Both work with iTunes. Whatever track is playing, AlbumArt will find the CD Cover for it, with about 97% accuracy and allow you to import it to iTunes for every track on the album. Harmonic will find the lyrics for whatever song you are listening to.
Other than that, iStat Pro keeps track of all of my computer's stats for when I need them, and I also use IceTime for quick NHL score recaps for the games I couldn't see.
Everything else seems kind of superfluous to me.
3-2-1 (egg timer type of thing, I use this to track when my laundry will be done at school)
countdown (counts down to a date and time, used to track things I am really excited for :P)
It's my understanding that even when enabled, dashboard doesn't load the widgets after startup until you actually go to use them. For example, I booted my computer a few days ago. When I went to use dashboard just now, it had to load the widgets which took a few seconds because I have a lot of stuff on there.
iStat menus are freakin awesome 8-)
Oh yeah, I used that one too. Then I switched to XAMPP because I was tired of MAMP running old versions of everything (particularly MySQL).
Also, if anyone here plays EVE, there's an EVE skill monitor dashboard widget which I use when subscribed.
I find widgets to be very useful. Since my laptop is my workspace, I usually don't have any other tools nearby to run numbers or figure out dates.