Comments on: I’ll show you mine

By: Matt Thommes / My current Dashboard

Matt Thommes / My current Dashboard — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:26:52 +0000

[...] the spirit of Zeldman's recent post, here is my current Dashboard in OS X (click to view larger size on [...]

By: Longboard: Apple Archives

Longboard: Apple Archives — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:26:16 +0000

[...] Jeffrey wants to Exposé your Dashboard. Some fancy combinations there. [...]

By: My dashboard, 6 September 2007 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

My dashboard, 6 September 2007 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:55:38 +0000

[...] Address Book Search, Lava Lamp, Leftlogic Entities, and more. Best viewed at original size. Blog post and download links are at zeldman.com. To take full advantage of Flickr, you should use a JavaScript-enabled [...]

By: Kody

Kody — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:54:37 +0000

Weather, Calendar, Clock, Stocks and the Calculator. Honestly, it looks very much like the default set of widgets when you install OS X.

By: ron

ron — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:15:54 +0000

for dashboard “haters”, the dashboard is really useful for quick info. instead of going to weather.com and then navigating to a weather radar page and waiting for it to load, i click into dashboard and there’s my weather widgets showing me all the info i want. same thing for stocks and sports scores. for sports I have set up an NFL one for the teams I care about and a MLB one the same way and soon and NHL one as well. For the same info on the web you have to visit a half dozen pages and wait for each page to load. The dashboard gets you all the info on 1 “page” at the same time in fractions of the time.

By: John

John — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:58:41 +0000

I don't use Dashboard much--just one widget: Console Calculator, a command-line calculator which I highly recommend.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:26:33 +0000

Thanks, Damien.

By: Damien Tanner

Damien Tanner — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:26:57 +0000

Sorry about that guys – Magnolia Blossom is back up now!

http://new-bamboo.co.uk/magnolia_blossom/

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:26:54 +0000

I’m pleased to say that Damien has restored Ma.gnolia Blossom, which had vanished due only to a server glitch. Thanks Damien!

By: Guinevere

Guinevere — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:13:07 +0000

Dashalytics is the one I use most- shows my Google Analytics stats for my site :D

By: John Magnus

John Magnus — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:53:13 +0000

No need to jump ship just to get better widgets. You just need a better browser. ;-) Opera has had widget support for some time now, as such the number of good, useful and/or nice widgets have become pretty good. Given that they're based on open web standards it's pretty easy to make your own as well! So just to prove that it isn't only Apple-fans that have the powers to spend way too much time customizing their desktops; Here's my desktop (posted on flickr)... In addition to the widgets in my screenshot (Time and Date, Hypnotic Clock and Lava Lamp), I actually have quite a few more useful ones that I activate when I need them: CSS Help, Artist's Sketchbook, Colours of the Rainbow, Unit Converter, Page Rank, Countdown timer, World clocks, Stock ticker (from Oslo børs) and VideoDownloader. In addition you'll also find widgets for the normal array of web 2.0 services such as GMail, Flickr, Twitter, Del.icio.us and so on... The screenshot should also go some way so show you don't need to use an Apple system just to customize your desktop/dashboard (or whatever it's called). It's pretty much a true bastard of a UI, with elements from several OS's...

By: Roger Johansson

Roger Johansson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:39:19 +0000

I don’t hate dashboard either. It’s just that I see no use for it and kept accidentally invoking it, so I turned it off a couple of years ago and haven’t taken a serious look at it since :-).

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 06:25:59 +0000

So, my widgets are like trusted friends. I completely agree Jeffrey, it's just nice to have then around. I probably use my calculator more than any other widget, although the magnolia widget is what sold me on social bookmarking. Though, I seem to have an outdated version. Cade, you can grab the osx magnolia widget here. Among my favourites is Character Pal, the Systran Language Translator and the morse code widget, that I can't seem to find anymore. It's pure geekdom. Cheers Jeffrey. We all need distraction.

By: Cade

Cade — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:38:27 +0000

I guess the folks at Magnolia figured out the Apple link, ’cause I went to get it, and they’ve replaced the download page with a mirror of their homepage. No widget. Bummer.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:59:50 +0000

@Phillipp: DragThing, baby! Best thing ever.