Honestly, I've turned off Dashboard too. There is not a single widget that I found compelling enough to use, and the darn thing was eating up my precious memory! Also, it always felt weird that there was this nebulous Other World floating around behind (or is that in front of?) my screen, unseen until I pressed F12.
As for Spotlight, I'm actually pretty fond of it. It doesn't do much unless you've taken the time to add Spotlight comments to a lot of your files. I use it to manage my collection of pornart! No, seriously, I wrote a full rant about how useful it can be (http://www.livejournal.com/users/tilton/210156.html) back in June. It's really great, but if you have a bunch of stuff, it takes a lot of work to add all the right tags to make it really worth while.
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Date: 2005-10-19 07:57 pm (UTC)As for Spotlight, I'm actually pretty fond of it. It doesn't do much unless you've taken the time to add Spotlight comments to a lot of your files. I use it to manage my collection of
pornart! No, seriously, I wrote a full rant about how useful it can be (http://www.livejournal.com/users/tilton/210156.html) back in June. It's really great, but if you have a bunch of stuff, it takes a lot of work to add all the right tags to make it really worth while.