Ya gotta put them in the right directory. Either ~/Library/Widgets or /Library/Widgets.

eta: create your own widgets: [link]

It's easy! Just a little HTML, CSS and JavaScript.... (other languages can be used too).

Spotlight is so confusing -- when I did the search, it made it look like the widgets were in the Application folder, which they patently were not.

Got them in the widget bar now, thanks.

I can run the TiVo widget, but how do I get it to appear in the Widget Bar?

When you say Widget Bar, is there an acutal "bar" somewhere listing the widgets. Because all I have seen is the screen that grays out everything else and pops up all my Widgets.

Also, I've just been dropping my widgets into the applications folder, running them once, and then they forever after appear with all my other widgets when I bring up the Widget screen.

When you say Widget Bar, is there an acutal "bar" somewhere listing the widgets.

Yes. Call up the widgets, then hit the '+' icon on the bottom left of your screen.

Also, I've just been dropping my widgets into the applications folder, running them once, and then they forever after appear with all my other widgets when I bring up the Widget screen.

Most widgets install themselves in the correct place when you double-click them. Some don't, and need to be manually put in the ~/Library/Widgets folder (or /Library/Widgets).

Call up the widgets, then hit the '+' icon on the bottom left of your screen.

Got it - i have seen that. For some reason, I was thinking there might have been a little bar that would sit somewhere on my screen at all times.

I'm having so much fun with the Widgets. I'm about to track a package right now. My dad, who is freakishly obsessed with snow in the mountains where he lives, will LOVE the radar widget.

Is this Widget thing a new feature with Tiger?

Signed,
Clueless PC Person

Is this Widget thing a new feature with Tiger?

Widgets are a secret organization, much like the Freemasons, that have existed for thousands of years. Only now have they chosen to reveal themselves.

Is this Widget thing a new feature with Tiger?

Yes.

Okay, irritated.

One, because the TiVo desktop won't install on Tiger.

But secondly, and perhaps more solvable, my Panasonic phone is driving me round the bend. I kvetched about it here before, and ended up going and buying new batteries -- the charge runs down insanely quickly (the main unit can only be off base for a day), and the battery consumption indicator lies (it was up to three bars a second ago, but the unit couldn't maintain a link to base, and then it suddenly went down to RECHARGE BATTERY).

So .. I'm looking for a cordless phone with:

• expandable handsets
• speakerphone on base unit
• speakerphone on handsets
• voicemail waiting indicator
I've also gotten used to
• alarm clock
• phone directory synchronised across units

Yeah, and non-trivial battery life would be nice too.

What's the etiquette for someone sucking bandwidth from me?

Someone is direct linking to the Ben Edlund autographed spoon pic from W&H Auction and using it as a userpic on a few message boards. The lad posts a lot.

Do I just change the name of the pic on my site? Email the kid and say, "Right click, save to hard drive, upload."?

no, the appropriate way to respond is swap out the image for one with the same name that is an icon saying "I'm a bandwidth thief and a loser".

Or WTTE.

I may be evil. But if you want to hit him hard, that's the way to do it. Hotlinking is so wrong, I can't believe people have to keep saying don't hotlink.