[Helmling]

I just ordered Tiger and I'm all giddy picking out Widgets for Dashboard.

So survey...what widgets do you have?

[CatOne]

Apple has a widgets site. Check it out.

[Mr. Blur]

which widgets...try saying that really fast 10 times!

[Helmling]

I know what widgets were out there...I was just kinda asking how people are using Dashboard.

Geesh, nobody wants to talk about themselves...fine.

[spiff72]

I'll bite...since the Pistons are losing tonight

Systat
TiVo Now Playing
Weather
Yellow Pages
Dictionary/Thesaurus
Calculator
Air Traffic Control
Itunes (kind of flaky - controls dont work right)
Calendar

All of these are "stock" except for the Systat and TiVo ones, I think.

[Helmling]

Really, what's wrong with iTunes?!?

[MartiNZ]

The iTunes widget tends to crash from time to time. If you open it before opening iTunes and then press the shuffle control it often brings up a dialog saying it has crashed, but it doesn't seem to mind. I think it's even worse if you don't have any playlists, as was the case for me when I was first using it. The situation improved a bit with 10.4.1 but isn't perfect yet. Also it's a pretty limited widget - in fact most of the stock ones are a bit. Being able to view more song properties and pull down a little view of the playlist would be nice, à la WMP dare I say it.

Other than that the only stock widget I have open is the calendar one, and then I have iCal Events - a 3rd party one that's pretty self-explanatory, and now DoBeDo which shows iCal to do items in a nice little interface and allows editing and creating them.

But overall I'm not yet fully convinced of the need for dashboard as it is.... I look forward to seeing where they go with it - I like the fact that it has sparked a lot of widget development, but think that more should really have been included to start with.

[macaddict0001]

heres a list of all the ones I have installed
8Ball mini.wdgt
Address Book.wdgt
Air Traffic Control.wdgt
BatteryInfo.wdgt
Britannica.wdgt
Calculator.wdgt
Calendar.wdgt
Canada411.wdgt
Cinema Times.wdgt
Dash Cook.wdgt
Dictionary.wdgt
Flight Tracker.wdgt
G-Ruler.wdgt
Genius Bar.wdgt
iTunes.wdgt
JiWire.wdgt
Mine Sweeper.wdgt
Package Tracker.wdgt
Phone Book.wdgt
qCPU06.wdgt
qMEM06.wdgt
Send SMS.wdgt
Show Off.wdgt
Sims2Countdown.wdgt
Stickies.wdgt
Stocks.wdgt
Tile Game.wdgt
Translation.wdgt
TV Tracker.wdgt
Unit Converter.wdgt
VersionTracker.wdgt
Weather.wdgt
Wikipedia.wdgt
World Clock.wdgt

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by macaddict0001

heres a list of all the ones I have installed
G-Ruler.wdgt

Wow 3 users now!

[TomR]

Originally Posted by Helmling

I just ordered Tiger and I'm all giddy picking out Widgets for Dashboard.

So survey...what widgets do you have?

I use weather, sysstat mainly. BUT! I also use doppler and the Kennedy space center live widget, MacMacdailynews widget, CNN widget and Slashdash widget.

Dashboard is great!

Tom

[analogika]

Air Traffic Control
alnk
AmazonSearch.wdgt
Apple Search.wdgt
eBay.de.wdgt
Fernsehen.wdgt
iCal Events
Intel Inside.wdgt
iTCM.wdgt
JiWire.wdgt
Lyric Tracker.wdgt
Mine Sweeper
Movie Locater.wdgt
Nofelet
Show Off.wdgt
Sys Stat.wdgt
Telefon
TinyURL.wdgt

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by analogika

Fernsehen.wdgt

This might replace the TV-Today Sherlock channel I use from time to time (I detest Sherlock). Where did you find this?

[mpancha]

Always On
Weather
Systat
iCal Events
Dictionary/Thesaurus
Package Tracker
Addresss Book
Yahoo! Traffic

Only On When I need it:
TV Tracker
Movie Times

[Randman]

Always on (for now):
Sysstat
hard stat
digital clock
weather (for my city, my parents' city and maybe another if I'll be traveling in the coming week)
clock (parents time zone and maybe another one or two if dealing with people in other cities/countries
batteryinfo

Use frequently: g-ruler
dictionary/thesaurus
TypeCast (lets you check fonts)
calendar (aero mod)
iCal events
unit converter
calculator (calctrans mod)
iclip lite

On my PB17, I have 55 widgets in the dash dock.

[Goldfinger]

Weather, stocks, sysstat and the countdown widget (counting down to the next macworld).

[spiff72]

Originally Posted by Helmling

Really, what's wrong with iTunes?!?

Actually my wife was having trouble using the pause/play button. I just tried it again, and it seems to be working now (on my machine)...

Maybe it was a fluke or something.

[Hash]

Originally Posted by mpancha

Always On
Weather
Systat
iCal Events
Dictionary/Thesaurus
Package Tracker
Addresss Book
Yahoo! Traffic

Only On When I need it:
TV Tracker
Movie Times

what do you use to keep them always on, you mean, on desktop?

[Namorado]

I somehow lost Translation.wdgt ... and can't seem to find it in the hundreds of widgets
listed in very broad categories (and no "search" function or alphabetical listing) on the
Apple widgets site. All I can find is a mention of it in the OS X 10.4.8 upgrade (which
I already have installed months ago). Can anybody give me the developer-source site
for this widget, or a similar English-Portuguese translator?