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Posted 31 December 2005 - 08:29 PM
So, I'm wondering if anyone has any awesome widgets they'd like to share?? I want some more. I currently have the standard ones plus a lightsaber one, myspace, and I dunno what else.
Widgets The FUTURE!
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Posted 31 December 2005 - 08:40 PM
There's a MySpace widget?
/me looks into it.
I suggest Sunlit Earth. It looks cool, and it's informative.
/me looks into it.
I suggest Sunlit Earth. It looks cool, and it's informative.
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 01:22 AM
I loved widgets for a couple hours. Then I realized they were raping my RAM, so I no longer use widgets. I'll use them again when I have more then 768 ram.
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 02:15 AM
I don't use DashBoard.
You put what in my Power Mac?
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 12:04 PM
Trah, on Jan 1 2006, 06:22 AM, said:
I loved widgets for a couple hours. Then I realized they were raping my RAM, so I no longer use widgets. I'll use them again when I have more then 768 ram.
768mb? i feel your pain.
Wow, you read a post by Ankhwatcher you must be so proud.
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This way to A Thought For A Day.
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This way to A Thought For A Day.
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 12:07 PM
Trah, on Jan 1 2006, 12:22 AM, said:
I loved widgets for a couple hours. Then I realized they were raping my RAM, so I no longer use widgets. I'll use them again when I have more then 768 ram.
I have 1 GB RAM in my eMac. I use Dashboard, but when I need the RAM, I just go into Activity Monitor and quit the dock. That always does the trick.
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 01:15 PM
I mostly just use widgets for informational purposes. Since I move around a lot on my laptop, I have to say the private/public ip displayer widget is probably my favorite. I try to limit my widgets just for space reasons, even though I only have 768MB of ram, its usually plenty to be running four or five widgets (they take up <20MB and get paged out if you don't use them) and a bunch of other applications. (trah must just be a sissy 
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 01:25 PM
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 04:47 PM
Avatara, on Jan 1 2006, 01:15 PM, said:
(they take up <20MB and get paged out if you don't use them) and a bunch of other applications. (trah must just be a sissy )
)When you're making 3D animations upwards of 750 frames with complex models, deformers, and pyroclusters, you need every bit of RAM your computer has.
Not to mention I like using very high graphics settings on warcraft
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Posted 01 January 2006 - 04:52 PM
Maybe that's why you lag so much. But VRAM isn't the same as RAM, so only your first argument holds.
But VRAM isn't the same as RAM, so only your first argument holds.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 02:55 AM
iTunes, weather, calendar, CPU temp
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 12:36 PM
I've never understood the iTunes widget. I mean, the application itself shrinks to widget form, and is accessible without hitting your dashboard activation key.
(my RAM problems will be solved soon enough; we're getting an iMac G5, so I can use that to render (i love Net Render) instead of my old 1.25 G4 powerbook.)
(my RAM problems will be solved soon enough; we're getting an iMac G5, so I can use that to render (i love Net Render) instead of my old 1.25 G4 powerbook.)
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 01:21 PM
I use the iTunes widget to see what I'm playing, and it's more convenient because I've got a button on my mouse that I've assigned to dashboard.
It's all fun and games until a rampaging mod destroys half your account.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 02:22 PM
But if you have a widget sized iTunes window always visible in a corner of the screen other applications don't use, there's no real need for the iTunes widget.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 02:37 PM
Yeah, the iTunes widget seems pretty frivolous.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 03:09 PM
Every time I want to use the dashboard it always takes a good seven or eight seconds for all the widgets to load properly. It's especially annoying when I just want to take a quick peak at something I wrote down in the stickies widget. It's faster just to open the calculator app in os x than it is to wait for the calculator widget, and the dictionary widget isn't really helpful since I can just enter the word into Safari's google entry and click on it's answers.com definition.
Occasionally I will check out the "This Day in History" widget. Everyone raise a glass to James Wolfe, the conquerer of Quebec, born on this day in 1727.
Occasionally I will check out the "This Day in History" widget. Everyone raise a glass to James Wolfe, the conquerer of Quebec, born on this day in 1727.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 03:18 PM
Avatara, on Jan 2 2006, 02:22 PM, said:
But if you have a widget sized iTunes window always visible in a corner of the screen other applications don't use, there's no real need for the iTunes widget.
I like my screen real estate.
It's all fun and games until a rampaging mod destroys half your account.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 04:44 PM
I like the idea of another screen.
You put what in my Power Mac?
Its like what happens when you cross a phoenix with a super black hole; it's powerful enough to destroy itself, only to be reborn in a vicious cycle of torment and pain. Or in this case, nonsense.
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Dude, imagine Redline Trash Talk; the unholy spawn of B&B and ATT.
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We're being overrun!
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Dude, imagine Redline Trash Talk; the unholy spawn of B&B and ATT.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 05:49 PM
Myriad, on Jan 2 2006, 08:09 PM, said:
It's faster just to open the calculator app in os x than it is to wait for the calculator widget, and the dictionary widget isn't really helpful since I can just enter the word into Safari's google entry and click on it's answers.com definition.
Not many people know this, but you can use Google itself to define words. Just type "define: blah" and you get a list of definitions. I also use it as a quick spell checker. Google rocks...
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 07:10 PM
I use that trick all the time. Very handy.
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Posted 02 January 2006 - 08:19 PM
I don't, but I used to use google as a calculator all the time. Their pages usually load pretty quickly, much faster than the time it takes me to find the calculator app on my hard drive.
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 01:28 AM
In regard to the utter uselessness of the iTunes widget:
Have any of you ever tried right-clicking or control-clicking on the iTunes dock icon? This is one of the reasons I have it on the right side of my screen.
Have any of you ever tried right-clicking or control-clicking on the iTunes dock icon? This is one of the reasons I have it on the right side of my screen.
