More Mac Magic. What’s New In Widgets?

OS X’s Dashboard Widgets are a Mac developer and user phenomenon. Almost 100-percent pure.

Pure style over substance for some. A collectors haven for others. What’s new in Widgets?

No one has done a better job of promoting Widgets than Apple. Are Widgets worthwhile or wacky?

Value, as you’ll hear often from the Mac360 crew, is in the eye of the beholder.

If you’ve grown tired of being productive, Dashboard Widgets are sure to help you wile away the time.

For example, the Lazy Laces Widget is made for the secret gamer personality that lurks inside all Mac users.

True click and play is back on the Mac. No, Mac Widgets do not a gaming machine make, but they’re colorful and just as wasteful.

As if there’s not enough rapid-fire, sure-fire ways to get all fired up over another way to read Rolling Stone, along comes a Widget designed to help, sans the fire.

Rolling Stone Magazine’s content isn’t just at the newstand, or in a Safari window, it’s also available as a Widget.

Google bought YouTube for a reason, your know.

Hundreds of millions of hits a day translates to a lot of online advertising, Google style.

Not to be outdone are the Swiss. How about a Widget that shows graffiti in Switzerland. What? You’re not excited about this?

Let’s try something that’s more fulfilling, like tracking the 2006 NCAA College Football Top 15. Sometimes you have to pay for cool.

Mouse your way to the Dashboard and view the 2006 NFL Widget. You get the entire season, playoffs, updated results, standings and more.

The only thing really missing are the live webcams of the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders locker room for you guys. It’s only a matter of time.

Got a collection of YouTube videos? Want more? You say you’re addicted to catching the latest videos from YouTube?

Let your Dashboard fingers do the walking with the YouTube Widget. It lists videos by tag, by user, and a list. You may need new glasses soon.

Got a new and exciting Widget to share with other Mac users? Widgets are like candy. We know they’re not good for us but we have to have more.

Why? Because more is better, and less is more.

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Off Topic #58 - Do politicians use personal computers? Of course. We’ve heard Barack Obama prefers a Mac, while Hillary Clinton uses a Dell, though, apparently neither of the candidates can bowl. Does Obama’s potential vice president use a Mac? Even Clinton acknowledges Apple’s brand power but says she can’t afford a Mac. Maybe she’d win if she used a Mac.