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Apple.com showcases over 1,000 Dashboard widgets
updated 09:10 am EDT, Tue August 2, 2005
Apple offers 1000 widgets
Apple today announced that Mac OS X's Dashboard now has over available at the Apple website, with dozens more being added every day and many more available from other websites. Widgets provide Mac user instant access to important information from weather forecasts and stock quotes to traffic conditions and the latest news stories. "Dashboard is a runaway hit," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "With over a thousand widgets to choose from, users can customize their Dashboards to do almost anything."
Widget Update needed
08/02, 04:31pm reply
Now someone needs to create a Software Update kinda thing to keep your widgets updated. Many come out as a 0.x version and have been updated a lot. Hard to keep up.
harryhood
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Joined: Aug 2005
Widget Update exists!
08/02, 05:41pm reply
By the same name, too:
http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=940
powermac99
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Joined: Feb 2004
big deal
08/02, 07:31pm reply
half of which are useless counter/countdown widgets
alternapop
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Joined: Sep 2003
Try again
08/02, 08:56pm reply
I see a lot more than just counter widgets. I see blogging widgets, FTP widgets, a terminal widget, games, iCal widgets, iTunes playing and lyrics hunting, etc.
MPMoriarty
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Joined: Oct 2003
I said "half"...
08/08, 12:30pm reply
not all or most.
alternapop
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Joined: Sep 2003