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Mac Widgets?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by MamboCube, Apr 3, 2006.

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    Hey, just wanted to know if any of you guys n gals use Dashboard Widgets?

    If so, what are your favourite ones?

    Mine are:

    ToDo Notepad
    Clipboard
    Wordpress Dash
    Google Adsense Report

    Also, anyone made their own widgets?

    Thanks!
     
    MamboCube, Apr 3, 2006 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I hardly ever use them. Once you have too many in there it starts loading pretty slowly as well...

    The SkySports one with footy news is all I ever check...
     
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  3. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    Only got half a gig on the lappy so tend not to use them as it makes the machine grind to a halt...

    I like the calculator though, and the email obsficator(sp?!)...

    Most of the widgets I use are for converting one type of data to another type, but like I say I don't tend to use it because I need more ram (Roll on pay day).
     
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    latehorn Guest

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    A half gig is not so only. I had 8MB on my first Winows95 PC and I could do a lot with that.
     
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    SEbasic Peon

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    Try running widgets on it... Ha!
     
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I get the impression it loads/renders/etc. every single widget first and only then it starts showing them all at once. That means the 20 or so I have loaded on there take a good 40 seconds to load - especially since most get data from the web, adding another element for delays...
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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  9. MamboCube

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    i think its when you play them, so if you play a track that has no album art, its gets them for you, or is that another widget?
     
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