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10.4 Widget Site Opens Doors

Posted by timothy on from the or-at-least-pages dept.

sammykrupa writes "My new venture has just opened its doors. Dashboard Lineup is a site where developers can talk about the OS X Tiger widgets they are developing and and tips and tricks can be exchanged. There are also discussions about ideas for widgets. It's also worth mentioning that if you are a developer you can use the free hosting for widgets I have set up."

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  1. What about the other Dashboard sites? by vocaro · · Score: 4, Informative

    This "news item" sounds a bit like a thinly veiled advertisement for the submitter's site. Why no mention of the other Dashboard sites that have sprung up recently, like Dashboard Exchange and DashboardWidgets?

    1. Re:What about the other Dashboard sites? by mipod · · Score: 5, Informative
      Yeah, honestly... there have been a bunch of Dashboard sites around for a while, The Dashboard was created a few days after DB was announced. Being innovative would be far more worthy of a slashdot post, rather than coming out with a crappy looking site 9 months late.

      If you want to see a nice one, though, look at DashboardWidgets. Lotsa widgets up already...

  2. Re:From TFA by ERJ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Man, you sure don't have a sense of humor...and also some pretty selective vision.

    3.A Stupid Republican Quote Widget.

  3. Re:Can someone please explain... by ferratus · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's really nice. I've been using multiple developer preview releases over the last few months (legally) and Dashboard certainly sticks out as being a very useful feature.

    Press F12, they all appear, use them and hit F12 again and they're gone. Instantly. Stuff like:

    - the iTunes controller.

    - calculator (no more opening this app for just a quick calculation)

    - the calendar view (simply seing the entire month is handy, since otherwise you had to go to the terminal, iCal or editing the time to see it, your iCal stuff also appear)

    - Converter. Converting money from CAD to USD (in my case) is really convinient and faster than hitting a web site)

    Overall, very nice feature. It's one of those things that makes it really hard to go back to panther after using Tiger for a little while.

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  4. List of Existing Dashboard Widget Sites by lux55 · · Score: 3, Informative
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  5. Re:This one has been around for years... by rjung2k · · Score: 2, Informative

    My biggest beef with Konfabulator was that the widgets were always on the screen. If you don't have a fat display, using any part of it for stuff you access infrequently is wasteful. At least Dashboard lets me stow everything away and bring it out only when I need it.

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