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10.4 Widget Site Opens Doors
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."
I tried Konfabulator, as did a number of people I know. For me I stopped using it because it was a hog, and just slowed down my machine too much. The lack of compelling/really useful widgets was a problem. A friend of mine summed it up with, "When the demo expired and I had to consider paying for it, I had already stopped using it, so I just deleted it." That was basically it for a lot of us. It just was not very useful. Dashboard looks to be more so. And it is free, so even if I only book a flight once a year, or look up a phone number in the yellow pages once a week, there is no reason not to have it.
Uh, yeah. I'm a jackass.
You win, though: first of five to point it out.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
It wasn't thinly veiled: "My new venture has just opened its doors."
Doesn't get much more blatant than that.
The time: Look at the upper-right of the screen, where there is already a time display.
Lots of people prefer an analog display to a digital one for telling time. I'll agree that a clock isn't super-necessary, but if you don't want it, you can easily turn it off.
What it's like outside: Look out a window. You know, that big glass pane on one wall of your boss's office?
Oh yes, because looking out a window will tell you the temperature and the chance of precipitation later. On top of that, everyone obviously has a huge window right near their computer.
Anything else to say?
Yes: It's hard to believe that you can't see the benefits of the various widgets on the dashboard. Maybe you personally don't have a whole lot of use for two particular ones, but there are tons more and furthermore they're easy to develop (HTML and CSS) and thus there will likely be lots of novel ones. Take second to look outside (no pun intended) your narrow little world and see that everyone is not you.
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