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That being said, I do appreciate its size a lot more than the size of the iTunes application window, which is one benefit that this particular widget has brought to my usage patterns.Īnother web-driven widget, the Phone Book asks you for your zip code and how large of a search radius that you want and you can search the yellow pages. I am also not one to make extensive use of iTunes playlists - I usually search for the song that I'm interested in listening at the time (or the album) and start from there - so this particular widget may be more useful to a more normal iTunes user. But since you have to have iTunes running for the widget to interact with it (obviously), I generally find myself using the actual iTunes application itself. The iTunes widget is interesting it gives you basic playback controls for your current iTunes playlist and tells you what song is currently playing. You can find out if a flight is on schedule, delayed or canceled, as well as track a specific flight and get a visual representation of where that flight is on a map. You select (or input) the airline that interests you, the departure and arrival cities, and Flight Tracker will connect to Flytecomm's database and return a listing of all of the flights that match your search criteria. As with all of the widgets, its name is self-explanatory. The travelers out there (or those who find themselves picking people up at the airport all the time) will appreciate the Flight Tracker widget. As a writer, this is one widget that I definitely find myself appreciating - basically, it saves me a trip to. Both databases are quite complete, and the layout of the information is actually done very well. Powered by the Oxford American Dictionaries, the Dictionary/Thesaurus widget does exactly what you'd expect it to: type in a word, hit enter and you get its definition or a list of synonyms depending on whether you have selected Dictionary or Thesaurus.
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The Calendar widget solves that problem, and it does it quite well.Īs a Windows user, I always found myself clicking on the clock in the Taskbar to bring up a calendar for this very purpose, so I have extra appreciation for this particular widget. Whether it's for planning articles or planning a trip, I'm always having to open up the Calendar application just to get a look at the monthly calendar - not for my agenda, meetings or other appointments, but just so that I can get an idea of what the month looks like. I'm a very big fan of the Calendar widget, simply because I'm always in a situation where I need to know the day of the week on which a particular date falls. The Calculator application in Tiger is improved, but it is nice to have access to a simple four-function calculator that doesn't eat up any desktop space. The Calculator widget is pretty self-explanatory for a person who uses the calculator a lot, this widget is very useful. I'd say that it would be a useful widget if I used the Address Book more often. This widget is particularly useful to browse for a contact while on the phone, or if you have already a ton of windows open and organized the way that you'd like them and don't feel like adding another application to the mix just to get a contact. You can search through your address book using the widget and do just about everything else other than add new contacts - for that you have to actually open the Address Book application. Simply bring up the Dashboard and you can flip through all of your contacts, and if you need to, just hit the red button to exit the Dashboard and open the actual Address Book application.
The widget saves you the desktop space of having the Address Book application open.
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I am not yet organized enough on my Mac to make extensive use of the Address Book (although, now with the ability to sync up my Blackberry, I probably will). The Address Book widget is a front end to Tiger's Address Book application. Here are the widgets that are included in Tiger:
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Apple provides a total of 14 widgets with Tiger (and a link to download many, many more) and they also provide excellent documentation for developers to make their own widgets.
To me, the biggest attraction to Dashboard is the fact that you move very useful items off of your desktop and onto basically a separate desktop that is very easy to access.