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Widgets are anything from small applications to games... they access web info (rather than opening a web page), for instance weather, lotto even rss feed; or applications info such as itunes and iCal. There are a few that are included with leopard (I never looked at them in Tiger) but I think you can find tons of them at apple.com....
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yes, you can find loads of them on Apple.com.
Heres the link that has a compete directory:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
And heres a widget that I recommend for every Mac user:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html
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Why use them? Because they give you an instant view of useful information. You can summon them, learn what you want in a glance, and then dismiss them.
My favorite widgets are actually two weather widgets. One gives me the a quick 5 day forecast for my area, the other contains a weather.com derived real time moving weather radar for my area. I check them both multiple times a day. It is simple stuff like this that is really useful.
I also have a stocks widget, so that I can check how the stock market is doing every now and then, and then of course there is the invaluable iStat Pro. You can summon up more information about the current state of your Mac than you ever thought you would need, until you see it the first time of course. How hot are your CPUs? How fast are the fans turning? What is your IP address? All of this is available in this one widget.
The wonderful world of widgets is indeed wonderful. Try them out and you will quickly find them invaluable. Even Microsoft finally got the message, and embodied in their vastly inferior Gadgets implementation in Vista.
My favorite widgets are actually two weather widgets. One gives me the a quick 5 day forecast for my area, the other contains a weather.com derived real time moving weather radar for my area. I check them both multiple times a day. It is simple stuff like this that is really useful.
I also have a stocks widget, so that I can check how the stock market is doing every now and then, and then of course there is the invaluable iStat Pro. You can summon up more information about the current state of your Mac than you ever thought you would need, until you see it the first time of course. How hot are your CPUs? How fast are the fans turning? What is your IP address? All of this is available in this one widget.
The wonderful world of widgets is indeed wonderful. Try them out and you will quickly find them invaluable. Even Microsoft finally got the message, and embodied in their vastly inferior Gadgets implementation in Vista.
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What is the best one for global news/regular news? I've got Weather ones, ical, istat, and a dictionary one but I really want a good news one.
Also, what is the best one for listening to the radio if anyone uses that/seeing artist songs/artwork so i can put it straight into itunes?
Also, what is the best one for listening to the radio if anyone uses that/seeing artist songs/artwork so i can put it straight into itunes?
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Most practical widgets in this users opinion are:-
Currency Converter. Broadband Usage this Month. Weather Forcast. Football Results.
Currency Converter. Broadband Usage this Month. Weather Forcast. Football Results.
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