Do You Still Use Mac OS X Widgets? Which Ones?

Monday, April 6, 2009 | Widget Watch | Read or Post a Comment

Widgets There has been plenty of public noise about Apple’s iTunes App Store for iPhone users. Already over 30,000 apps are available on the store, and around 1-billion downloads.

That’s good news for iPhone users but what about Mac users and Dashboard Widgets? There are thousands of Widgets available; some great, some good, some not so much. Does Apple care about Dashboard Widgets anymore?

Probably, but not so much as App Store applications and utilities since Apple.... (excerpted).

2 Reader Comments

Jared B. said:

First I would never pay for a dashboard widget, maybe donate five bucks or so if the widget was well designed such as iStat Pro. This applies to all my Macs. I use iStat Pro, the weather channel widget and also radar in motion, then I use a couple of the stock weather widget that comes with every Mac to keep an eye on weather in favorite places in the U.S.A., I also use a widget that is hard to find but free called “sol” not sure what that stands for but it’s a simple dial that shows how much day is left to dusk to night to dawn. The needle slowly spins around as the day goes on here is the link if anyone wants this widget, this widget also tells what time dawn will be, what time the sun will rise and same for dusk and night times and it’s always amazingly accurate.

http://captaindan.org/sw/Sol/

And last but not least the stickies widget.

Adam said:

My printer supplied a useful widget that monitors ink levels that I find quite handy.

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