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gregpins · Apr 29, 2005, 08:24 PM

Loving Dashboard and its potential. Some widgets I'd love to see...

Movie listings
White page phone directory
Entourage-linked calendar

Other ideas?

kman42 · Apr 29, 2005, 08:26 PM

Okay gregpins. That was too weird. We posted identical topics simultaneously.

kman42 · Apr 29, 2005, 08:27 PM

Here's mine. I asked the mods to close my original thread.

1) I think we need a sports scores widget. Flip it over and select the team you are interested in and the widget goes out and gets the score of the latest game. A fancier widget could show you the realtime score on an appropriately designed scoreboard.

2) I'd also like a to-do list that integrates with iCal.

kman

gregpins · Apr 29, 2005, 08:36 PM

great minds...

Hi I'm Ben · Apr 29, 2005, 08:54 PM

TV Guide Widget
Ebay status widget
I love the sports idea, i'd love a cubbie widget =).

I'm not sure what else I'd want.

Mac Write · Apr 29, 2005, 09:08 PM

I want to see Menu Meter as a widget (the current widget sucks) I want to see into on each drive, log of how much bandwidth transfered, CPU up time etc.

cynikal · Apr 29, 2005, 09:15 PM

would love a quick maps.google.com widget..

wtmcgee · Apr 29, 2005, 09:39 PM

I want a widget to allow me to post quickly and easily to my weblog (powered by movable type currently), but as I haven't seen one yet, I'm going to try to whip something basic up this weekend. After reading all of the Apple docs on how dashboard works, I think it will be no problem once I figure how how to communicate with Movable Type.

nforcer · Apr 30, 2005, 05:25 AM

Something to display sports scores and standings (baseball, football, golf) I would use from time to time.

d.fine · Apr 30, 2005, 05:29 AM

Yellow Pages for my country/area...

Markovich · Apr 30, 2005, 06:37 AM

I'd like to see widgets for astronomy info, like Moon rise and set times, planets too. Also a widget for the Clear Sky clock.

Mark

JMII · Apr 30, 2005, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Markovich

I'd like to see widgets for astronomy info, like Moon rise and set times, planets too.

Along the same lines I'd like a tide widget.

Also a pic-of-the-day widget (with various themes: landscapes, cars, babes... you get the idea) would be fun. A widget-cam would rule!

Sports scores and news headlines are a must have.

I'd love a way to access my excite email account from a widget too.

Since widgets are done with HTML, Java and CSS all of this should be very easy to do.

gregpins · Apr 30, 2005, 07:31 AM

FYI, there's a pretty cool new one this morning...Yahoo Traffic

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/17876

DigitalEl · Apr 30, 2005, 10:22 AM

Love the ideas posted above, re: sports scores widgets and Google Maps widget.

Let's add to that list an album cover art widget. Type the artist and song title into fields and presto... Art you can right click on, then paste into iTunes.

joshiieee · Apr 30, 2005, 10:53 AM

what I want is an update to the dictionary widget....so you can copy from it.