Mac Dashboard Widgets

PhilL

PhilL

Joined
Oct 1, 1999
Messages
6,490
I love my Mac, but relax I’m not trying to convert any of you PC users. I have a 17” Flatscreen G4 iMac. It came with Panther OS X but I just recently upgraded to Tiger 10.4.6 and one of the coolest features of this new OS is Dashboard Widgets. Widgets are these small programs that come up on your screen that are just helpers that you can customize for your own needs.

Here’s my Dashboard window.

197942776.jpg


On the top middle is my calendar, then local weather, clock, below that is Dictionary/Thesaurus, next is an Acronym Finder, Today in History, Illusion of the day, and a translator. On the left side at the top are daily Mac Tips, a simple calculator, Quotation of the Day, under that is a Converter. In the middle are some of my favorite Widgets, under the calendar is an iTunes player widget and under that is the lyrics to the song playing in iTunes. To the left of the iTunes widgets is a little dancing Hula Girl (she dances when your mouse is over her).

You bring up Dashboard by pressing F12. There are hundreds of Widgets that you can choose from. These are the ones I felt to be most useful, but I can change them any time I want. This has quickly become one of my favorite programs.
 
I love my imac g5, powerbook g4 1.25 and my works dual 1.42. now with tons of scsi storage and a AJA I/O box.

Frank
 
i switched a little over a year ago and absolutely love osx tiger. i never could learn to like widgets, though... they were too resource demanding and didn't seem to save me any time or provide convenience. that's just me though. i'm glad your mac is working out for you!
 
I have always been am Mac user! I LOVE the Dashboard Widgets; they are such fun.
 
Yea the idea of widgits is a good one , it's been around for a long time in one form or another.
Mac was also the first OS to 'allow' the use of skins, being able to totally customize your desktop although , many times those programs would cause crashes on resource weary Macs.
I remember a time when I said I would never own a PC (which I was convinced was short for piece of crap) but cash talked and bs walked , when my buddy Casey was selling his old PC for cheap I bought it and went to the dark side :D

My first ever comp was a Mac "pizzabox", 36 mb of ram (4 on the board) , a whopping 16mhz processor and 200 mb HD. I thought I weas big chief back then hehehehehe.
I still have that Mac , been toying with the idea of firing her up for shitsngiggles. Also have an original apple moniter , keyboard , mouse.
Used to run OS7 , tried running 8 but it was a tad too robust for that old boy.
I think I still have most of my old Mac software , I also have a Macintosh Bible given to me by my best friend back in the day.

If I had money to burn I would buy a new Mac just for the heck of it but I would always keep my big boy PC here.
 
I had a crazy dream that Microsoft ported Jaguar to Windows and they are releasing it in 2008 under the name Windows Vista...


...or i'm not dreaming and windows is lame...
 
Here's mine.


picture3in6.png


all of you mac users that do not have quicksilver I recomend you get IT

EDIT: it's good stuff :)

EDIT again because the site is to cool to explain what it is: it's a program similar to spot light. It lets you search and open files. You can use aplicatsion though it with like I chat without opening them. It's useful for book marks - just save them all up in one big folder - no need to organize, Quicksilver organizes and aphabitizes them into its own search function... There's a lot of cool stuff :cool:
 
I'll second destroythealter's recommendation of Quicksilver. Quicksilver rocks as a program launcher, macro-launcher and general OS enhancer.
 
They've had widgets on Windows for a long time too. I only use a couple, they run through my shell Blackbox. Calendar, Clock, Hardware Info etc. I prefer to keep my desktop simple, less cluttered. Self-made theme and wallpaper.

2eq50xy.jpg
 
Converter - so handy for woking out how much those things I buy over the net will cost, not that I stop buying of course....
 
PhilL said:
Where do you get it?
Is it one of the Mac Widgets? :confused:
Click to expand...

Just click IT in my previous post. BTW It isn't a widget, it makes using the computers easier and faster at any level of computer literacy. It can be used in the form of a menu as I did. If you look at the picture I posted my menu is not normal it's black (kind of hard to see) that's because that is actually quicksilver and it disapears at the push of a key.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top