Widgets (MAC) post some cool ones

[Heelfan71]

Just found this one. It's a plugin for I-tunes. Every song that you are playing it finds the lyrics. Pretty fast too.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20353

[Dealin Rams]

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I'd recommend putting one of the many available calculator widgets on your dash - that's always helpful. If you get a lot of packages, I believe there are some great widgets available for tracking packages.

Otherwise it looks like you've got everything I've got, but I know there are a ton more out there.

[bgeno]

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I never use the dashboard... everything i really need I put in the tool bar.

I've got an Adium icon, controls for Itunes, a weather program (I use WeatherDock and messed around with setting so it's just in the tool bar... I highly reccomend this program), an alarm clock(Alarm Clock 2), and a calendar program (MenuCalendarClock)... all in addition to the normal bluetooth icon, airport icon, battery indicator, and clock.

I find it takes too much time to bring up the dashboard, especially on a slower mac. I got everything I need up on the toolbar.

[thejake]

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We've got most of the same ones. I also have an espn one that updates scores and stuff. I like the baseball standings one. I'll have to look for that one. If I remember when I get home, I'll post a screen of my dashboard.

[Heelfan71]

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I never use the dashboard... everything i really need I put in the tool bar.

I've got an Adium icon, controls for Itunes, a weather program (I use WeatherDock and messed around with setting so it's just in the tool bar... I highly reccomend this program), an alarm clock(Alarm Clock 2), and a calendar program (MenuCalendarClock)... all in addition to the normal bluetooth icon, airport icon, battery indicator, and clock.

I find it takes too much time to bring up the dashboard, especially on a slower mac. I got everything I need up on the toolbar.

yeah, I have most of those in my menu bar too.

We've got most of the same ones. I also have an espn one that updates scores and stuff. I like the baseball standings one. I'll have to look for that one. If I remember when I get home, I'll post a screen of my dashboard.

yeah I think I found the MLB one on the apple web site.

[thejake]

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[Heelfan71]

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nice, we do have a lot of the same ones. What is the mail icon on your menu bar ? I see a batter and head phones. What are those for ??

[Heelfan71]

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best widget ever

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20953

[thejake]

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nice, we do have a lot of the same ones. What is the mail icon on your menu bar ? I see a batter and head phones. What are those for ??

battery is because its a laptop. the head set is growltunes. it is a growl plugin for itunes so whenever a song comes on, the title, album art and other stuff come up.

[Heelfan71]

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I use a program called bytecontroller. It displays the song / album cover when a new song comes on (in the menu bar) and has 3 buttons (previous song, pause, next song) in your menu bar.

Going to download growl now and see what it's like

[thejake]

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I tried to post link to growl last night but their website was down. Its like a system wide notification program. It pops up when you get new emails and stuff like that. A lot of programs are building in growl compatibility.

Let me know if you want to try skitch. It a snapshot taking image editing program. I am in the private beta and i have two invites. Its a neat little program.

http://plasq.com/skitch

[Heelfan71]

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I tried to post link to growl last night but their website was down. Its like a system wide notification program. It pops up when you get new emails and stuff like that. A lot of programs are building in growl compatibility.

Let me know if you want to try skitch. It a snapshot taking image editing program. I am in the private beta and i have two invites. Its a neat little program.

http://plasq.com/skitch

yeah, I would love to try out skitch. do you need my email ??? I downloaded growl last night and really like it.

[thejake]

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yeah pm me your email.

[rubisco43]

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not to go too far off topic, but anything like that for XP :o

[thejake]

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not to go too far off topic, but anything like that for XP :o

try looking for yahoo widgets. I think they bought konfabulator which was i think, one of the first widget providers.