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November 27, 2007

The *NIX manual Widget

Posted in: Widgets

*NIX manual provides a clean and simple interface for performing look-ups on commonly (and, more importantly, not so commonly) used commands. It stores preferences for font and a customizable set of colors and includes 9 attractive pre-made color sets. Pages are neatly-formatted and highlighted based upon your color preferences.

*NIX manual performs man page lookups either locally or remotely through freeSBD.org, with several search options to make finding what you need even easier. If you’re familiar with Terminal, you’ll feel right at home, with support for most common shortcuts and command line flags; if not, you’ll find your way around the intuitive interface with no trouble at all.

July 24, 2007

Top 5 security and networking Widgets

Posted in: Widgets

This article presents 5 widgets that that enable you to perform various tasks quickly, straight off the Dashboard.

July 23, 2007

Dashalytics: Google Analytics statistics on your desktop

Posted in: Internet, Widgets

Dashalytics is a free Dashboard widget that offers quick access to Google Analytics statistics. It will work for all accounts no matter what your default language is. You can easily have multiple widgets open to track statistics on multiple sites.

June 06, 2007

Fantastic image upload widget that saves you time

Posted in: Widgets

By merely dropping your desired image onto the widget, your file is uploaded privately and free of charge to ImageShack, converted into a short, web-friendly TinyURL, and copied onto your pasteboard ready for action. That's what I call useful!

February 28, 2007

xCuts

Posted in: Widgets

A utility for looking up Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts, something that recent switchers from Linux or Windows probably need to do quite a bit! The xCuts are organized by Category, Scope, and Object, and you can even drill down to a second cross-referenced level if you need to. Or just use the fast live search form.

January 22, 2007

The YouTube Widget

Posted in: Widgets

This widget allows you to search YouTube from your Dashboard, just to waste a little more of your time :) You can search by three different methods:

  • Tag: lists all videos by tag (or combination of space separated).
  • User: lists all videos by a user.
  • List: gives a choice of a list to display all the videos.

December 18, 2006

DiggDong! Stop refreshing your Digg submissions

Posted in: Widgets

DiggDong is a Mac OS X dashboard widget that keeps track of Diggs your stories have gotten. It refreshes periodically in the background, and will let you know (using Growl, if you have it) when there are new Diggs. So you take your fingers off of Command-R and take a bathroom break.

June 18, 2006

View lots of information with iStat nano

Posted in: Widgets

View detailed information on CPU, memory, hard drives, IP and external IP, bandwidth, CPU temperature, battery, uptime and the top four processes.

June 14, 2006

Widget spotlight: FIFA World Cup 2006 Schedule 1.0

Posted in: Widgets

This is a handy widget to look up schedules of all matches at the FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany. All times are localized by your timezone and also include narrowing your selection by teams or groups. I bet there are many football fans among Mac users :)

June 09, 2006

Working with Gmail on your Mac

Posted in: Internet, Non Stop Mac, Software, Widgets

Back in the days of my first connections to the Internet, first webmail services were something very useful. It was tough to get a POP mailbox, so connecting over very slow and expensive dialups was the only way to go. Nowadays I have 9 different POP e-mail accounts, but still use one on a webmail provider. Gmail is powerful and versatile, so I like having one of my non-business accounts in a place that I can access from everywhere. In the last year or so I have tested a couple of Gmail related "interfaces", including widgets and a notifier. Here is my perspective on the pros, cons and wishes...

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May 10, 2006

37Signals Jobs Dashboard widget

Posted in: Widgets

Get instant access to the job postings on the 37Signals job board. Choose to view ads from specific categories or all the ads currently available using this small Dashboard widget.

April 12, 2006

The Mondo Dock widget

Posted in: Widgets
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Mondo Dock is a widget that lets you access your common applications and documents via the Dashboard. Just drag from the Finder, bring up Dashboard, and drop onto it to add it. You can even launch documents by dropping them on apps - just like the Dock.

April 06, 2006

Calling all developers: the Basecamp API is here

Posted in: Internet, Software, Widgets

37Signals, the company behind ingenious products such as Backpack and Basecamp, today announced the availability of the Basecamp API. The API allows programmers to access/read/write Basecamp data from third-party systems like Mac OS X Dashboard widgets. For more infomation point your browser here and don't be shy to let us know if you come up with something cool.

March 13, 2006

ColorBurn Dashboard widget

Posted in: Widgets

The ColorBurn widget features a new color palette every day, along with its hexadecimal values for all you web geeks out there. If you're looking for some daily inspiration, some colors to steal, or simply another cool-looking widget to fill up your dashboard and impress your friends, here you go.

March 06, 2006

Cyberduck Dashboard widget

Posted in: Internet, Software, Widgets

Cyberduck is a very popular open source FTP and SFTP (SSH Secure File Transfer) browser with an easy to use interface, integration with external editors and support for many Mac OS X system technologies such as Spotlight, Bonjour, the Keychain and AppleScript. To make things even better, now there's a widget you can use with Cyberduck, get it here.

February 27, 2006

Google Dashboard widgets for Mac

Posted in: Internet, Widgets

In case you haven't got 'em yet, you should really check out Google's Dashboard widgets: Blogger, GMail and Search History. There's also a group dedicated to the discussion of those widgets so check it out.

February 09, 2006

Share your stuff securely with NoodleBoard

Posted in: Widgets

NoodleBoard is a Mac OS X dashboard widget that allows you to securely share your ideas, thoughts, lists, links or anything you can type with others. For the time being it's free but do consider a donation if you find it useful.

December 12, 2005

Pretty useless Widgets: games

Posted in: Non Stop Mac, Widgets

Over the weekend I was checking the Apple site to find some useful widgets. I found some good ones, but in the process of browsing I came across some rather useless "Gaming" widgets. Between all of the strange ones I installed, here are the ones that I find the most useless.

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December 01, 2005

Give your Mac OS X computer a hostname with DynDNS

Posted in: Internet, Mac OS X, Non Stop Mac, Software, Tips & Tricks, Widgets

This article will show you how to easily setup a free DNS service that will give your Mac computer a static hostname. There are a lot of possibilities you can use this for, as most of the Internet connections offer dynamic IP addresses. Having a dedicated hostname can make it easier to remotely connect to your computer and run any kind of server.

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November 23, 2005

The reasons behind my love for the new iBook

Posted in: Hardware, Mac OS X, Non Stop Mac, Reviews, Widgets

In this article I will try to share my experience with the best piece of hardware I ever used - a 12.1-inch iBook G4. I focused the article on giving my comments on different aspects of the iBook - software, hardware and the overall appearance. The article is accompanied by screenshots, photos and a small video.

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November 14, 2005

A closer look at the Capture widget

Posted in: Mac OS X, Non Stop Mac, Reviews, Software, Widgets
The Capture Widget

While you may use your computer for a bunch of different things, I presume that at least once you needed to do a screen capture. Because of its friendliness and availability, Dashboard is a great place to host a screen capture software. “Capture” was the first widget I installed after buying my iBook and it served me quite well. It is time to share my thoughts on all the aspects of this handy utility.

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