I wrote a few days ago about using ImageWell to quickly resize images, but I’ve discovered an even easier and faster way: just drag and drop an image on the Image Shackle Dashboard widget. You can resize the image using a slider, or set a default width or height. There’s also an option to [...]
Delivery Status does Package Tracker one better, monitoring orders from Apple and Amazon before they even ship, and counting down the days to delivery. Delivery Status can monitor orders from Apple.com (all international stores), Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.jp, Amazon.de, Amazon.at, and Amazon.fr, as well as track packages from FedEx, UPS, USPS, and DHL (US [...]
If you live in California, you know an earthquake can strike at any time. The TremorSkimmer widget monitors earthquake events from around the world in near-realtime, with information retrieved from the National Earthquake Information Service (NEIS). Now you’ll know when the earth really moves.
Universal. Nathan Barkei
Put some dashboard gauges on your Dashboard, including a tachometer (CPU usage), fuel gauge (battery status), temperature gauge (computer temperature), and speedometer (free RAM and uptime). Universal.
Jun Wen Lau
I don’t watch television, but this slick new HBO Widget offers up a selection of free teasers and trailers, as well as the complete schedule for HBO and Cinemax channels. Watch clips from Bill Maher and Inside the NFL, interviews with the cast of the Sopranos, previews of documentaries and special features, and The [...]
If you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere and don’t already know about Sudoku , I recommend skipping over this post. Sudoku is seriously addicting. Originating in Japan, this innocent looking game—a kind of crossword puzzle composed of numbers—is fast becoming ubiquitous in the States, appearing in newspapers and displayed prominently in bookstores.
The game [...]
The announcement that Yahoo! was buying Konfabulator seems to be stirring up a lot of interest in Dashboard widgets, if my site logs are any indication. Looking for new widgets that are worth a mention, I stumbled on the ColourMod Dashboard widget and the COLOURlovers site within moments of each other. Both sites are [...]
I’ve written elsewhere about my wish for a Dashboard widget that would track my site stats, and I’m happy to report that someone has finally come up with one. The ShortStat Widget from Keegan Jones—drawing on stats from Shaun Inman’s ShortStat—lets you check your hits, uniques, and recent referrers at a glance. But setting [...]
The steady parade of new Dashboard widgets has become my latest hit parade, with my favorite widgets taking a prominent position on my screen, then falling out of favor to make room for the new. Here’s a handful of new widgets that are front and center on my Dashboard.
Actually, this first one I mention [...]
I get such a kick out of reading my logs for this site. In the past few days, I’ve noticed an increasing number of people finding Futurosity via Google searches for keywords like “porno widget” and “dashboard widget nude women” and “widget nude mac.” Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you, but I don’t know [...]