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Friday, May 20, 2005

I’ll be dashed

MacWorld:

I realized the other day that, after an initial flurry of downloading and installing widgets, I'm not using Dashboard at all.

I did a quick, informal poll of folks here and found that I wasn't alone. While several Macworlders reported hitting F12 several times a day, others (like me) just hadn't taken to it with the same enthusiasm.

For me, the reason is simple: I'm not going to change the way I work unless the new way is demonstrably easier than the old.

So it goes for [all the Dashboard] widgets I've checked out: None seem more compelling than tools I’ve already got.

I believe I called this one.

However, the reason is two-fold: One, people don't grok keyboard commands. Two, The Dashboard widgets are only available in a weird environment and not on the desktop where they belong.

This is a good idea, but it was done first, and done right, by the Konfabulator folks. Who, incidentally, just released Konfabulator 2.0.

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