If I were given a challenge to determine your personality type from just looking at your OS X setup, the first thing I would go to is your Dashboard and see what widgets you have on the screen. Are they cluttered? Organized? What widgets do you use? Stock? Weather? Calendar countdown? Believe me, they tell us who you are.
Here’s a screenshot of my Dashboard.
- iStats Pro
- Package Tracker
- hovrsWidget
- CharacterPal
So, what’s my personality type, anybody? :-)
Jun 18, 2007There are three widgets but I don’t use widgets in general. They are iStat Pro, Weather, and hovrsWidget. It fits my personality: minimalist.
Your personality is overachiever. :) A clock for Cupertino? Cute. Two calendars and two weather panels…
I’d be curious what percentage of Mac owners use widgets.
Jun 18, 2007I use two weather widgets – one for Roseville and one for my parent’s location. I miss how diverse the weather is back in the east coast.
As for four clocks, I need it because I’m always traveling. As for using two calendars, I like to use one for the current month, and the other calendar for different months so I can compare against them two to count weeks, days or whatever.
Jun 18, 2007Ahh, good idea. I was wondering why you had two calendars. Well, I use CNN news widget, weather, Address Book Search, Yellow Pages, White Pages, HOVRS widget, Post Its, dictionary/thesaurus.
Jun 18, 2007Here is my dashboard
Jun 18, 2007i want my life to represent simplicity. the same goes to my dashboard, :) i ony list
hovrs widget
CNN news (a must!)
humor of the day (a must to develop my appreciation in memory of my dad)
gas price near my home (i drive a lot)
zodiac (just for fun!)
weather widget (so i can picture my outfit of the day!)
that’s it.
Jun 18, 2007I tend use:
Radar in Motion
IStat Pro
IStat Memory
Stock
3DIP
Airport Radar
Bandwidth
Clocks
Gas
Hardware Monitor
IP
Scenairo Poker
Jun 18, 2007mine is
Stock Widget with AAPL selected
World Time 3 set to Phx, Atl, Lon.
Weather set to Tucson, Az
3-2-1 Countdown (for my baking timer)
Facebook Watch
RevenuSense (for Adsense)
Dashalytics (for Google Analytics)
I do use other widgets but they are off to lessen resource hogs and less clutters
Jun 18, 2007boult, Thanks for mentioning RevenuSense and Dashalytics. I didn’t know about them.
Jun 18, 2007Oh, yeah, I forgot DeafRead has a widget. It’s not much to look at, but works. I used a template to put it together in 2 minutes.
Jun 18, 2007jeez-the dashboard includes Deafread widget…ahhhh! whats our next “Deaf” widget gonna be? eh!
Jun 18, 2007Wow…I rarely used widgets. It’s time to revisit if they are worth it or not.
Jun 18, 2007Oh right, forgot about the Deaf Read widget, yes have that one too. Wonder if can include the name of person who wrote the entries along with the titles?
Jun 18, 2007 Jun 18, 2007Jessica, your wish has been granted. The blog title now shows up before the post title. There is no need to re-download the widget.
Back to my love: Macs!
Jun 19, 2007Tayler, how about a Fomdi gadget/widget? I’d love to have one for my Vista desktop.
Jun 19, 2007I do use widgets
Calculator
ESPN hockey news
5 Flyers jersey dates
clock for london
2 weathers- one for home one for work
Hurricane Tracker
Samegame
K-notes for my notes. I like this one because you can add new notes by clicking on “+” on the note itself not having to open the widget bar on the bottom of the screen
dictionary
Jun 19, 2007Thanks, Tayler! Some ideas I got from you all on what good widgets there are. I like K-notes, that sounds good. I just downloaded a new one last night, Starry Night Widget. Shows what stars and planets are out in the sky. I keep seeing this little shiny thing next to the moon last night and was wondering what that was, a star or planet? So I downloaded it and ahh, now I see. It is nice for those who like stargazing. You can type in your zip code and what direction you usually face (for me, it is to the west).
Jun 19, 2007Csano – you cracked me up. How about WordPress widget for Fomdi? Tayler loves WordPress as he loves Mac.
Jun 20, 2007Tayler, can you make it only vlog instead of combination of blog and vlog on DeafRead???
Thanks
Jun 21, 2007Sorry guys, I am reporting from my PC, I do have a digital clock, weather here in town, and a few games when my stress level goes up.
Then …
At work I have new 20″ IMac, a bit more widgets,
Digital Clock
Weather,
memory.
Jun 21, 2007With a Dashboard like this, you must be using 200% of your physical RAM just with widgets. :\
Check out memory usage in Activity Monitor
Jun 22, 2007My Widget is
Calendar
Real Time Traffic
AccuWeather
Radar in Motion
Dictionary
Flytecomm
Simple Timer
iStat Pro
Jun 24, 2007Today I saw a postcard at the store that said for Minnesotans, 80% of our conversations are about weather.
That must be why I have so many weather widgets on mine. That, or I’m an old fuddy duddy now. Tayler, given that you’re in California, you prolly don’t need a weather widget anymore???? Chad, hush about the ice fishing; you’re scaring me already with all these widgets on your Mac… :-O
Jul 3, 2007- hovrsIM widget
- Dictionary/Thesaurus
- calendar
- calculator
- NY clock
- California clock
-weather for Yuba City, CA
- Gas widget for cheapest gas in town
-Translator for English to Japanese
- chi pet
- Klondike games
Where do I find the Deaf Read widget?
Nov 5, 20074 clocks! Nice! I used to use widgets:
-dictionary
-weather
-currency converter (b/c I was living in a foreign country at the time)
-unit converter (ditto)
-istat pro
-horoscope
-comic strip
-sudoku!
you could definitely tell from the last 3 that my personality is TIME WASTER, haha.
but then I decided to disable my dashboard completely, after learning that widgets completely eat up your RAM. my computer is soooo much faster now that I dont have a dashboard. And I dont really miss the widgets, after all.
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10:10 am
How bad of Chad and me! Looks like that Chad is my grandson in taste. We both have all the same widgets, oh well! Do not tell everyone about this fact(?)!