Favorite Widgets

[Beej '86 325es]

Mac guys,

Finally decided to splurge for OSX 10.4 Tiger to see what the Widget hype is about.

So, what are your favorite widgets? What are good sources?

[permit]

Cocktail, Do It (it's literally a picture of Ben Stiller, and when you click it, it says, "Do it"), ESPN, Gas, Humor of the Day, iSend, miniCpuHeat, Ski Report, SimpsonBot, SunlitEarth.

[hamann318is]

Widgets are pretty useless.

Weather, Terror Alert, System Stat are my favorites. They really are just clever wastes of memory. ;)

[permit]

The "stocks" widget is the only one I use daily. I agree, widgets are a complete waste of my memory, and I wish I could disable it entirely (I could just not have any widgets up, but it's still an app using up my RAM).

[Ben Carufel]

The "stocks" widget is the only one I use daily. I agree, widgets are a complete waste of my memory, and I wish I could disable it entirely (I could just not have any widgets up, but it's still an app using up my RAM).

More ram. Then you don't have to worry about an app using your ram.

[Beej '86 325es]

I think we need an R3V widget.

[hamann318is]

The "stocks" widget is the only one I use daily. I agree, widgets are a complete waste of my memory, and I wish I could disable it entirely (I could just not have any widgets up, but it's still an app using up my RAM).

You can disable it in the terminal. Ask me how!

[Charlie]

So, on a PC these are called TSRs and Spyware - on a mac it's a "Widget".

Got it. Do they make a Bonzi-buddy widget?

http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/474753/spyware-threat-apple-tiger-os/

-Charlie

[hamann318is]

So, on a PC these are called TSRs and Spyware - on a mac it's a "Widget".

Got it. Do they make a Bonzi-buddy widget?

-Charlie

Computers are pretty stupid.

[Beej '86 325es]

So, on a PC these are called TSRs and Spyware - on a mac it's a "Widget".

Got it. Do they make a Bonzi-buddy widget?

http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/474753/spyware-threat-apple-tiger-os/

-Charlie

Interesting, the widgets are very easy to download in Tiger. Asks you if you want to download the file...YES...then lets you preview it and use it a little before it installs it, so you have the option of keeping or deleting it. That article was done in May, so maybe since then, the way they are installed has been fixed?

[hamann318is]

If you don't have a basic understanding of Unix, why do you own a Mac? (In reference to that article)

[Ben Carufel]

Interesting, the widgets are very easy to download in Tiger. Asks you if you want to download the file...YES...then lets you preview it and use it a little before it installs it, so you have the option of keeping or deleting it. That article was done in May, so maybe since then, the way they are installed has been fixed?

Correct, that "loophole" has been closed according to Apple.

[shiftbmw]

Would someone kindly explain what a widget is and why I'd want one?

[h0lmes]

So, on a PC these are called TSRs and Spyware - on a mac it's a "Widget".

Got it. Do they make a Bonzi-buddy widget?

http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/474753/spyware-threat-apple-tiger-os/

-Charlie

Wrong. If you had ever touched a Mac you would know that widgets and spyware are 2 very different things.

[King Luis]

i used to use the weather widget....found out it was using something like 15mb of memory...uninstalled it.