[macfantn]

for me it's the futurama quotes, hilarious

[KeriVit]

Get Fuzzy Comic.

[Peter]

Model Concept - Image Upload Widget

URL to futurama quotes?

[macfantn]

Futurama Random Quote Generator - Dashboard - Movies & TV

must have for everyone

[wolfen]

I'd be interested in a poll on who doesn't even use them. I haven't looked at the dashboard in months. I wonder what it's up to.

[Peter]

awesome. Wish you could copy them to clipboard...

[macfantn]

i never used dashboard til last week i only had 256 mb ram was too slow to be usable just upgraded to 640 now it runs fine, so it is still kinda new to me

[Chuckit]

I don't use it except to check the weather occasionally. I haven't found any widgets that do anything better than real app.

[Doofy]

The picture frame in Konfabulator is the only one I use. It has boobies and stuff.

[shinji]

the only one i use is dictionary/thesaurus

[GlobalNomad]

Mine is the one that tells me my isp usage meter.

[peeb]

6 copies of the clock, with world times, and the map of the world with the daylight indicator on it. The weather and the calculator, the dictionary/thesaurus.

[alligator]

Weather.

[slpdLoad]

I have it disabled and never miss it.

[irunat2am]

Translater, just faster for me to get there. Not like they ever translate exactly anyway..but whatever.

I also have 3 clocks setup so I know what time it is where my friends live (ireland, france, japan) so I know when I can call them safely without getting murdered for waking them up

[IceEnclosure]

Originally Posted by slpdLoad 

I have it disabled and never miss it.

Why do you dislike Dashboard? Seems kind of silly.

Throwing my cursor to the top left corner of my desktop to retrieve a live local doppler radar loop is awesome.

I love checking incoming flights and watching the speed and altitude of the plane change, so cool.

I use calculator, translator, unit converter, yellow pages, etc.. I don't understand how someone could hate on all that stuff being a click or a mouse-swipe away.

[Peter]

Love this one too, super handy:
Vikingstad Dashboard Widgets - vikingstad.com

[hickey]

I still have panther. Never been able to really tool around with dashboard etc.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

Why do you dislike Dashboard? Seems kind of silly.

Throwing my cursor to the top left corner of my desktop to retrieve a live local doppler radar loop is awesome.

I love checking incoming flights and watching the speed and altitude of the plane change, so cool.

I use calculator, translator, unit converter, yellow pages, etc.. I don't understand how someone could hate on all that stuff being a click or a mouse-swipe away.

I very rarely need all of that stuff at once. I'd much rather just hit fn, type the first letter of what I actually want and hit return.

[zro]

Weather is the only one I use regularly.
Translate I use occasionally.
Stickies rarely.

None others, really.

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by Peter 

Model Concept - Image Upload Widget

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

Weather is the only one I use regularly.

Ditto. Although I like Dash Sign as a stickies replacement.

Dash Sign 1.0 - MacUpdate

[Graviton]

The BBC Radio widget is the only one I have on the dashboard permanently.

Some other widgets are handy, but I don't see the point of having them running (and using resources) all the time. For this reason I use them like little apps and only launch them when I need them. Plus, a lot of widget functions are accessible through a browser anyway.

I'd use an iTunes widget a lot, if you could use it without having iTunes open, but you can't, which kinda renders iTunes widgets rather pointless in my opinion.

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

InterfaceLIFT widget for me.

[Judge_Fire]

Translate, Unit Converter and ColorBurn- that's about it.

Most widgets seem kinda half-baked and behave in unpredictable ways, IMHO. (Location entry in Weather- WTF?) And if you use Dashboard just occasionally, you're almost guaranteed the annoying startup wait as the app launches, which for me defeats the whole purpose. I will have Calculator.app launched via QS faster than I can get to an already open Calculator widget in Dashboard.

I like the idea of the separate layer, but I like little apps even better. Stickies.app is so much better than a Sticky widget, for example. The thing I like most about separate apps is that they're just that. I don't want to call up 10 random widgets when I'm just looking to do a sticky note.

I would really like to like it. Maybe some killer widget will come along.

[Cold Warrior]

TV Forecast 2.2.3 - MacUpdate

This one is money. I watch a ton of TV and don't own a TiVo (the DISH DVR is poor excuse, but better than nothing), so the widget helps me keep tabs on what is up-coming. Currently tracking 14 shows, which is the most my free time can handle.

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

The picture frame in Konfabulator is the only one I use. It has boobies and stuff.

It's wearing really thin, Doofy.

[Doofy]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

It's wearing really thin, Doofy.

Put me on ignore then.

The question asked what widgets one uses. I answered. If you don't like the answer, **** off.

[Jawbone54]

iCal events
Weather
Stickies
Calculator
Date

That's it. Basic, of course, but that's all I really need. I know where the cheapest gas is.

[Sub]

Tv tracker.

[slpdLoad]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

Why do you dislike Dashboard? Seems kind of silly.

Throwing my cursor to the top left corner of my desktop to retrieve a live local doppler radar loop is awesome.

I love checking incoming flights and watching the speed and altitude of the plane change, so cool.

I use calculator, translator, unit converter, yellow pages, etc.. I don't understand how someone could hate on all that stuff being a click or a mouse-swipe away.

I'm just silly then. I don't have a problem with it per se, it's just that it's too slow to load everything on my machine, and I never found widgets that were really that useful to use on a regular basis. I fly someplace maybe once a year? It's not worth it to have a dashboard widget for that. I find using Quicksilver to launch stuff like Calculator is actually faster for me.

[Chuckit]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

It's wearing really thin, Doofy.

So, what, you're homophobic and heterophobic?

[imitchellg5]

I haven't touched it in a long time. I can find better uses for RAM.

[SpaceMonkey]

Calculator, Temperature Monitor, Weather, Dictionary, and "Show Off" are the ones I leave up.

[Kevin]

mudcube � widgets

minuraturized version of the Sphere application on colorjack.com

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

So, what, you're homophobic and heterophobic?

Chuckit's definition of a heterophobic: Anyone not possessed of an indefatigable tolerance for booby jokes.

[tboparis]

Say Cheese (comics).
Processes.
Unit Conversions.
Countdown.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

TV Forecast 2.2.3 - MacUpdate

This one is money. I watch a ton of TV and don't own a TiVo (the DISH DVR is poor excuse, but better than nothing), so the widget helps me keep tabs on what is up-coming. Currently tracking 14 shows, which is the most my free time can handle.

Thanks for that one.

[Mastrap]

Originally Posted by Chuckit 

I don't use it except to check the weather occasionally. I haven't found any widgets that do anything better than real app.

Same here. I use the weather widget, the calculator and sometimes the currency converter. That's it.

PS: Oh, and the flickr uploader widget.

[JonoMarshall]

I second processes, it's like looking into my machine to see what's going on... lovely.

[lpkmckenna]

LadyTax, Calculator, iStat nano, iClip lite, Flick'It, Say Cheese

[Gankdawg]

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure 

Why do you dislike Dashboard?

I don't dislike it, just don't see it as very useful. I do use the Calculator though. Seems like everything else can easily be found on the internet which most of the I'm on already so it is just as easy to open a new tab. I don't know. Just haven't found much use for it. It's really cool but like the upcoming Spaces, I just don't/won't use it. And I rarely find myself using Expose either.

[Tiresias]

Weather, international clocks, calendar, translator, DVD capture, Werriam-Webster Dictionary (with pronunciation audio!), metric convertor.

[- - e r i k - -]

Let's see what I have up:
Calculator
Two weather+one local weather widget for reference (anal, I know )
FlipClock
Calendar
iCal Events
iCal ToDo
iTunes Stats
Unit Conversion
Übertragen (FTP/Bonjour file transfers)
Australia Postcode Search
Unit Converter (Best widget ever)
World Clock set to wherever my fiancé is touring
AirTrafficControl
WidgetUpdate
Two comic widgets (one Norwegian, one international (SayCheese))

[Tiresias]

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - 

World Clock set to wherever my fiancé is touring

What, is she in some kind of freak show?

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally Posted by Tiresias 

What, is she in some kind of freak show?

Depending on your definition of a band, then maybe.

[indigoimac]

Disabled / Uninstalled w/e, it was the first thing to go on this ProBook

[olePigeon]

I use the unit converter, weather, Yellow Pages, and a movie times widget all the time.

[mdc]

Cold Warrior, thanks for that widget. Very useful.

I have 3 time clocks
Unit converter
Image upload
Date calendar
Sticky note
Calculator

I think that's it. I like the new movie times widget apple will be releasing with leopard.

[peeb]

Originally Posted by mdc 

I think that's it. I like the new movie times widget apple will be releasing with leopard.

Tell me more... Will this be as good as Sherlock?

[mdc]

That's a picture of it from Apple's page.
When 'closed' the widget fades between random movie posters. Clicking on it sizes it. You can browse for movies, watch trailers and buy movie tickets.