I hardly used widgets at all because they dont appear on the desktop, then I got into yahoo widgets and wondered why i was using them and not the inbuilt OSX ones.
There are 3 ways of using widgets, via the dash board, using a bit of terminal and F12 to make an individual widget appear on your desktop or using Amnesty Now with OSX 10.5 you can make your own widgets by using safari to clip parts of web pages, this is especially usefull if you dont want to both with RSS and can get headlines and updates via your clipped widgets instead.
My top 5 widgets besides the ones I clip are:
To Do Widget
Links with iCal and list things I need to remember and do
iCal Events
Its a sort of desktop ical, listing calnedar events and more
ViewmyTV
does exactly what it says allows you to view umpteen TV channels on a widget.
Easy envelopes
Back in OS9 there were some useful envelope printing tools, It may sound boring but its very useful
iStat Pro
The ultimate tool to tell you what goes on in a mac, I have been using it lately for an old G5 imac that overheats to tell me what the temp is.
see what you think
Thursday, April 3, 2008
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