CharacterPal, Uncle Sam widgets released
updated 02:50 pm EST, Thu January 4, 2007
Two free widgets released
Taco Widgets has released CharacterPal 4.0, a free dashboard widget designed to find the key combinations for special characters such as accents and symbols. CharacterPal includes keyboard and HTML combinations for Greek, Mathematic, Latin extension/accent, and keyboard symbol characters as well as URL escape codes. The widget includes 10 different keyboard layouts with various fonts, and is designed as a transparent palette with built-in desktop use accessible from the back side. CharacterPal requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later. Taco Widgets also unveiled Uncle Sam 4.0, another free dashboard widget that presents cynical, random quotes. The widget includes 800 random quotes with 12 different skins, offers clipboard compatibility, and stores the quote list in plain text format. Uncle Sam requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
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Joined: Aug 2005
Interesting and useful
Both look to be useful widgets. However, Taco Widgets is playing it kinda fast and loose with their marketing-speak, it seems. The page for Uncle Sam indicates: "Limitless Fun - There are 250 new quotes in Uncle Sam, a grand total of 800. Holy cow!"
800 quotes = "limitless fun"? Ooookaaaay...