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Who still uses it? What for?
The widget page on apple.com is distinctly unloved. The graphics haven't been 'retinafied' and it refers to OS X as 'Mac OS X' which changed when Mountain Lion came out. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't recent Mac laptops (and maybe standalone keyboards?) have a dashboard F-key. I don't have one on my new rMBP. I'm guessing it was maybe F4, which is now Launchpad. I'm guessing it's going to be dropped in the near future. I just realised today that you can disable it in the Mission Control preference panel. I have just done the deed. RIP Dashboard. I remember when Steve demoed the 'water' effect when a new widget was dropped onto the screen. I was awestruck. However, it seems your time is up. (Why Dashboard is still around, but Front Row was put out to pasture still makes me a little bit mad and is perhaps the subject of another thread) |
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Calculator. That's pretty much it. (And even then, it drives me crazy when you have to wait a couple of seconds for the calculator to come to life - it doesn't seem like that should be an issue.)
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
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You can turn it OFF??!!
Woohoo!! ... |
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cmd+space, type c, and calculator is invariably the first match. I'd bet it's quicker than Dashboard calc.
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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Now even my iPhone 5 could probably render such a thing while in a power-saving state! I don’t use the Dashboard calculator, preferring the Calculator app (which I have in my Dock). … engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams. |
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I used to use dashboard for several daily tasks, but now days I only fire it up for a package tracking widget. In other words, it hasn't been used in months.
I don't think you can actually disable dashboard, but you can set it not to appear as it's own "space", unless your Mission Control panel is different. |
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*sigh*. The memories. |
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Ditto with my G4 Mini. I had to wait to go Intel before I saw the ripple, which I thought was rather ironic at the time as the G4 had discrete graphics and the Intel MacBook I had at the time had Intel GMA 950.
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geri to my friends
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Heaven
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I use it for the weather, istat, and a currency converter.
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A for effort.
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
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Weather, baseball league-wide scoreboard, package tracker, world clock, calculator, stickies, unit converter. So pretty much every day many times a day.
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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weather. stickies. airline tracker.
once/day. |
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Paris, France
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In my previous post I forgot to mention what I use Dashboard for. I use it for checking the weather in a variety of places including where I live, where my immediate family members live, and where a close friend lives – and I use it frequently for that. I even have it mapped to a Hot Corner (bottom-left).
Although I also have the calendar, clock, and calculator widgets (by default?), I don’t actually use them. … engrossed in such factional acts as dreaming different dreams. |
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*AD SPACE FOR SALE*
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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I always dashboard more annoying the useful.
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You sometimes verbs.
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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The only things I regularly use Dashboard for are the calendar (because it's faster than launching the Calendar app and switching to month view) and a quick glance at the weather app.
I keep the calculator widget open and occasionally use it for some quick arithmetic, but most of the time I have a terminal window open and just use a Python shell for any math that takes more than one or two operands. I have a couple of clocks in there, too. One for London and one for Kiev. I've used them as a quick view when I've had to chat with or coordinate something with employees/contractors/partners in those time zones, but that's very rare. Poor old Dashboard. I'm not sure I can say I thought you had lots of potential, but I wish you were more useful than this. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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*AD SPACE FOR SALE*
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Cleveland-ish, OH
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I think being able to have widgets on the desktop itself rather than in its own space would be more useful, especially if you've got lots of desktop real estate to spare. Having a few widgets down one side of the screen wouldn't be so bad. However, some of the widgets look a bit dated now. The weather widget looks a bit iOS6-ish now. A little anachronistic.
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Join Date: May 2004
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As for me, some snow reports - wishful thinking for the next holiday, two clocks, an old Australia Post postcode widget and currency converter. I remember when Konfabulator was the shit! |
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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HA! I loved it too. I remember the whole "widget" name fiasco like it was yesterday. Sigh, nostalgia.
afa Dashboard, I have it set up as a separate Space (as I do most everything… I use Spaces quite a bit) so a quick double-finger swipe is all I need for calc, istat, conversion and weather. I probably use it twice a day, more if I'm calculating where portals should go in the Nether. It's just *there*, so I see no reason to turn it off. I still use Quicksilver to open up most everything, so if I had to choose between LaunchPad and Dashboard, Launchpad would get the axe. Although, I haven't used LaunchPad in quite a while. Does it have the same functionality as Quicksilver yet? If it's as quick and easy as QS I'd consider switching to a built-in app. So it goes. |
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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I just learned that you can use Spotlight to do calculations. Thanks, Mac+!
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Chicago
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Heh, guess I'm pretty old school, but I love Dashboard. It'd make me sad if it went away
For calculator stuff, I usually just use Alfred. (Of course, just being here makes me feel old school, what with this being my first post in years…) |
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