Some people have use for it, some don't. I've pretty much pared it down to:
1. iCal Events, good for knowing when to start preparing ahead for my weekly games and such. If you don't use iCal's events, it's not of much interest though.
2. GPeek, a Gmail widget that actually shows email subjects (lifted from Gmail's authentication-required RSS feeds). I prefer it to all those widgets that onlt show numbers of email, because I can just glance at it and decide if there's anything I actually want to read right now. Not as pretty as the ones that shows the number of emails as flowers in a pot or something, but more functionally useful for me.
3. Calculon, bare-boned calculator without any buttons. You just type numbers and math operators from the keyboards Not a fancy scientific calculator, but sufficient for my purpose, and quicker to acces for me personally than any other form of calculator I've played with. Of course, could do geeky Quicksilver stuff, I think there's a calculator plugin for that. I like the dedicated calculator mini-app better, though.
4. IP Widget, as simple as its name suggests. Displays any one IP you care to (your IP via Ethernet wireless, or the public-to-the-Internet IP) and copies to your copyboard upon clicking on it.
5. And, finally, the useless fluff: <href="http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1229">Discordian calendar. Wins the Most Likely To Get Deleted Once Wolfie Gets Bored Of It award. The most recent addition, really.
Everything with the exception of the Discordian calendar have basically been the most long-lived of the assorted crap I've tried putting onto my Dashboard. And there really are a lot of crap widgets, I'm completely sick of people flooding the widget sites with yet, yet more freaking one-site RSS feeds and one-image widgets and such.
The surviving items on my Dashboard have pretty much extremely low form factor and serve single useful and frequently referenced purposes that I'd probably be doing with bigger apps anyway. The Discordian calendar is the only one that breaks with this pattern, and thus the one most likely to disappear sometime.
I experimented with assorted notes-widgets but ended up just using the Notational Velocity application.
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Date: 2005-10-20 05:57 am (UTC)1. iCal Events, good for knowing when to start preparing ahead for my weekly games and such. If you don't use iCal's events, it's not of much interest though.
2. GPeek, a Gmail widget that actually shows email subjects (lifted from Gmail's authentication-required RSS feeds). I prefer it to all those widgets that onlt show numbers of email, because I can just glance at it and decide if there's anything I actually want to read right now. Not as pretty as the ones that shows the number of emails as flowers in a pot or something, but more functionally useful for me.
3. Calculon, bare-boned calculator without any buttons. You just type numbers and math operators from the keyboards Not a fancy scientific calculator, but sufficient for my purpose, and quicker to acces for me personally than any other form of calculator I've played with. Of course, could do geeky Quicksilver stuff, I think there's a calculator plugin for that. I like the dedicated calculator mini-app better, though.
4. IP Widget, as simple as its name suggests. Displays any one IP you care to (your IP via Ethernet wireless, or the public-to-the-Internet IP) and copies to your copyboard upon clicking on it.
5. And, finally, the useless fluff: <href="http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=1229">Discordian calendar. Wins the Most Likely To Get Deleted Once Wolfie Gets Bored Of It award. The most recent addition, really.
Everything with the exception of the Discordian calendar have basically been the most long-lived of the assorted crap I've tried putting onto my Dashboard. And there really are a lot of crap widgets, I'm completely sick of people flooding the widget sites with yet, yet more freaking one-site RSS feeds and one-image widgets and such.
The surviving items on my Dashboard have pretty much extremely low form factor and serve single useful and frequently referenced purposes that I'd probably be doing with bigger apps anyway. The Discordian calendar is the only one that breaks with this pattern, and thus the one most likely to disappear sometime.
I experimented with assorted notes-widgets but ended up just using the Notational Velocity application.