Apple.com showcases over 1,000 Dashboard widgets

Apple today announced that Mac OS X's Dashboard now has over 1,000 widgets 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."

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harryhood

Widget Update needed

08/02, 4:31pm, EDT

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.

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powermac99

Widget Update exists!

08/02, 5:41pm, EDT

By the same name, too:

http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=940

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alternapop

big deal

08/02, 7:31pm, EDT

half of which are useless counter/countdown widgets

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MPMoriarty

Try again

08/02, 8:56pm, EDT

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.

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alternapop

I said "half"...

08/08, 12:30pm, EDT

not all or most.

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