Sunday, January 13, 2008

My favourite Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger) Dashboard Widgets

Here is what's on my Dashboard:
Screen shot of Dashboard

  • 3 World Clock widgets (yes the analog one that comes with the OS, because they're the best at handling DST in foreign cities like Asuncion)
  • 3 Weather widgets (yes the one that comes with the OS, because they show everything I care about with no clutter)
  • 2 Countdown Calendars (yes the one that comes with the OS, because it's a quick way to keep track of how long until I fly out and in on business trips)
  • Dash Clipping (this is the best widget, IMHO since I can monitor portions of important web pages by cropping to the relative subset that is most useful to me; an equivalent is built into Mac OS 10.5 Leopard)
  • Fidelity Market Monitor Widget (because of the color-coded change indicator and quick access to good graphs)
  • iStat Pro (most detail of things like fan speed, temperature guages, battery cycles, etc.)
  • 4 Webcams is a compact way to show images from URLs and you can click on one to exapand it to take up the full frame of the widget (covering the other 3 images)
  • Widget Update is a compact way to check for new versions of your existing installed widgets
  • Application Update is a compact way to check for new versions of your existing installed applications
  • 3-2-1 is a countdown timer

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Blogger Gastown said...

I've added the FreshBooks Time Tracker Dashboard widget and the Currency Converter widget.

April 16, 2008 7:04 AM  

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