The dashboard widgets I've ended up with after half a year, are, in order of how much I pay attention to them:
"Stocks", to watch my company's stock price fail to raise up to my buy-in price "Radar In Motion", to watch weather radar "Weather", to show a 5 day weather forecast for my area. "RPN Calculator", because it's just useful to have a calculator. "Air Traffic Control", to watch what WiFi access points are near. "Marquee", to see what movies are playing locally. "Stickies", for notes to myself. "Package Tracker", to see where a fedex/UPS/DHL package I'm waiting for is. "Calendar", to see the currently month's calendar. "Countdown Calendar", to remind me how many days are left until an event. "Capture", to take screenshots with, flexibly.
There's a few other minor things like countdown timers and stopwatches that I really didn't end up using, but which could be useful, and didn't take up much screen space. For web developers, there's various CSS and PHP cheatsheets for remembering useful stuff.
I also changed my dashboard key to Command-F12, so I couldn't hit it accidentally.
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Date: 2005-10-19 05:44 pm (UTC)"Stocks", to watch my company's stock price fail to raise up to my buy-in price
"Radar In Motion", to watch weather radar
"Weather", to show a 5 day weather forecast for my area.
"RPN Calculator", because it's just useful to have a calculator.
"Air Traffic Control", to watch what WiFi access points are near.
"Marquee", to see what movies are playing locally.
"Stickies", for notes to myself.
"Package Tracker", to see where a fedex/UPS/DHL package I'm waiting for is.
"Calendar", to see the currently month's calendar.
"Countdown Calendar", to remind me how many days are left until an event.
"Capture", to take screenshots with, flexibly.
There's a few other minor things like countdown timers and stopwatches that I really didn't end up using, but which could be useful, and didn't take up much screen space. For web developers, there's various CSS and PHP cheatsheets for remembering useful stuff.
I also changed my dashboard key to Command-F12, so I couldn't hit it accidentally.