A Useful Widget At Last!
I like the idea of widgets in OS X and the way Dashboard works. However, other than the calculator I don’t find myself using them very much. But I finally found a Dashboard widget that really is handy. It’s a tool that lets you track packages from a variety of places (Amazon, UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc.). You enter the tracking tag a nice little widget is created. It will change status and will also integrate with Growl to give you notifications (so you don’t have to always look at Dashboard to notice a change).
Here’s a screenshot.
And a link to the author’s (very nice) website. Any widgets that any of my readers use and find useful?
Andrew Flanagan on February 13th 2008 in Actual Events, Geekiness
Dave Feucht responded on 14 Feb 2008 at 9:54 am #
Well, I don’t know if it’s really *useful* so much, but when I used to actually use Dashboard, I had a widget that would display webcams (you just point it at the URL), and I would keep ones from Vilnius, Lithuania (where we lived for a year), the Eiffel Tower, etc. I mean, who wouldn’t like to take a break around 1pm (PST) to see the Eiffel Tower all lit up and sparkly? The problem is, that’s about the only thing I ever used, and as Dashboard has a rather large memory footprint, I just decided to disable it and stop using it. I agree, interesting idea, not terribly useful for me. Expose, on the other hand…
Bill responded on 22 Feb 2008 at 5:48 pm #
Ooooh, I like that.