{"id":375,"date":"2006-10-01T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/useful-widgets.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:22:29","slug":"useful-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/useful-widgets.htm","title":{"rendered":"Useful widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--115972519350582321-->I&#8217;ve spent quite a bit of time this weekend just playing around with my Mac and now I&#8217;m hooked on dashboard widgets.  Initially dismissed as a gimmick, these are similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/widgets.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Widgets<\/a> (formerly Konfabulator) and the sidebar gadgets in Windows Vista.  Basically each widget is a tiny application with a particular function in mind.  So, here are the ones that I&#8217;m currently finding particularly useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve already written about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/09\/filling-gaps-in-itunes-album-art.htm\">Amazon album art<\/a> but it&#8217;s been great for downloading the artwork that even <a href=\"http:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p(23708)a(1115261)g(11703474)\">iTunes<\/a> 7 misses:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.widget-foundry.com\/widgets\/amazonart.htm\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/amazonalbumartwidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Amazon Album Art widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> is a tremendously useful resource &#8211; although I could fire up a browser it&#8217;s sometimes handy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/reference\/wikipedia.html\">call up an article directly from the dashboard<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/reference\/wikipedia.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/wikipediawidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wikipedia widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/networking_security\/airportradar.html\">AirPort Radar<\/a> can be used to enable\/disable the wireless interface but its most useful feature is reporting all the available wireless networks and their channel numbers:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/networking_security\/airportradar.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/airportradarwidget2.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"AirPort Radar widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/networking_security\/airportradar.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/airportradarwidget1.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"AirPort Radar widget\"  \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/status\/istatpro.html\">iStat Pro<\/a> gives a single view of my system&#8217;s vital statistics:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/status\/istatpro.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/istatprowidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"iStat Pro widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/status\/dashalytics.html\">Dashalytics<\/a> hooks into my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/analytics\/\">Google Analytics<\/a> account and gives an instant view of web site visits and page views over the last day, week and year:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/status\/dashalytics.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/dashalyticswidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dashalytics widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>I use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/information\/bbcweather.html\">BBC Weather<\/a> widget in place of the standard one (because it recognises the town where I live)&#8230; oh well, looks as though things may brighten up in a day or two:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/information\/bbcweather.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/bbcweatherwidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBC Weather widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/radio_podcasts\/bbcradiowidget.html\">BBC Radio<\/a> widget lets me choose from many local and national stations, updating the logo accordingly:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/radio_podcasts\/bbcradiowidget.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/bbcradiowidget.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBC Radio widget\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, some widgets promise much but are let down by reliability issues, or by poor interface design; however there are a growing number of widgets to choose from  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/downloads\/dashboard\/\">Apple maintains an index of the most popular widgets<\/a> &#8211; 2291 of them at the time of writing).  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Basically each widget is a tiny application with a particular function in mind. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/useful-widgets.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Useful widgets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-useful-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Useful widgets - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/10\/useful-widgets.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Useful widgets - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve spent quite a bit of time this weekend just playing around with my Mac and now I&#8217;m hooked on dashboard widgets. 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