Dashboard Widgets

[saturn]

Now that saturn has a mac, he's getting uppity and snobish

But as Padawan I'm merely following your path, oh Master Dave

[saturn]

Since Saturn seems to be in Holland and I'm just over the border in Belgaland, I have to say she looks like a girl I met tonight, except the picture has her wearing underwear

MY GOD, YOU'RE BELGIAN :icon11:

[NCG_Mike]

I'm originally from the UK, via Amsterdam (NL), Antwerp (BE), Amsterdam, Ft. Lauderdale (USA), Reading (UK) and Antwerp.

I travel a lot.

[saturn]

ah....is that required for your work or do you just like to relocate from to time?

[Geebs]

Top sounds a bit too complicated and nerdish for me. I have this iPulse app that is a bit over the top with dynamic viewings of your mem, disk, wifi, battery use. And you can also use it as clock. When you hover above a certain area it shows you more information:

[lvlshot]http://www.xs4all.nl/~divid/images/powerbookdesktop2.jpg[/lvlshot]

Btw, the App Monitor doesn't work. It loads and closes again. Weird.

Err, Sat, you don't suppose the reason your mac is a bit slow is all of the crap you've got installed on it?

[saturn]

lol, you mean those widgets?

It isn't that slow, but sometimes I expect just a little bit more responsiveness

[NCG_Mike]

ah....is that required for your work or do you just like to relocate from to time?

I'm a freelance programmer so I move when there's new work etc.

[bag0shite]

lol, you mean those widgets?

It isn't that slow, but sometimes I expect just a little bit more responsiveness

I think he's talking about all the shite at the top there as well, ie stuffit etc.

[saturn]

There's stuffit and deskshade, the colored lines are from iPulse. That's all.

Stuffit is necessary, deskshade not.

[Dave]

oh and saturn, why the hell do you need a wikipedia widget when you can type "site:(en|nl).wikipedia.org word-your-looking-up" in the safari or whatever search box?

[saturn]

I like to have a seperate wikipedia widget ready, the same way I like to have a dictionary widget ready.

It's easier than firing up Safari and typing the word/subject I want to search.

[Dave]

this is what you need:

http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/index.php

[saturn]

testing it now, not too shabby program, you using it too?

[saturn]

hmmm.....quitting the program will merge the desktops and the windows, but that didn't went well. All windows were hidden but couldn't be openen anymore. Maybe I should read some more in the FAQ

[Dave]

I use it on my powerbook, but not on my powermac because I have dual monitors. I have it installed on my desktop, but I dont use it. I keep my remote desktop session or email open on the second desktopon the powerbook and I mapped command + as the switch shortcut. That mapping breaks safari's forward sequence, but I use back 100x more than forwards.

[Dave]

hmmm.....quitting the program will merge the desktops and the windows, but that didn't went well. All windows were hidden but couldn't be openen anymore. Maybe I should read some more in the FAQ

Don't quit it then

I put my switcher window in the left middle of the screen and have it set to auto-hide. It launches when I login. If you want to move apps from one desktop to the other, you have to minimize on the current screen and maximize on the new screen. It only get annoying when you want a new finder window on screen 2 while it's open in screen 1. You have to use the command-N shortcut for a new window

[JulesWinnfield]

Don't have to tell me.. I have three macs

You're welcome

[Dave]