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Gizmodo totally has the best pics up of the sites I'm looking at.
It is perfectly sensible of me to delay any Mac Mini purchases until towards the end of the year. This will just make it easier to while away the time.
Also, harder.
Do you OS X-using Buffistas use the Dashboard? Mostly it's what comes up when I was diving for a different key on the keyboard. It's not worth switching environments for. The only practical use I have for it is sticky notes that I want around somewhere easy to get to but that I don't have to see unless I'm looking for them.
Gizmodo totally has the best pics up of the sites I'm looking at.
Agreed - gizmodo for the pics, macrumors for the quickest text updates.
I use the Dashboard for weather, weather radar, sunrise/sunset times, calculator, sunlit map of the world, clock, and resistor guide (you enter the band colors and it gives you the ohms).
I also had a gmail alert on my iBook - I should install that one too....
It's kinda' cool that all that stuff is available with a single key....
I use iGoogle for many of those things (was just over tweaking the page for my second gmail address to look like the first), and I have a Google tab open on all my desktops al the time.
What technology is MacRumors using to update their page so tidily?
Yeah, the weather and the weather radar are really useful. Probably much less so if you live in LA, though.
I tend to use iGoogle more than Dashboard, probably becuase I can just have a tab open to google all the time and I forget what's available on Dashboard.
Tiger cereal (Grrrreat!) -- I'm still on Panther, so no Dashboard for me; when I accidentally launch it on another machine, it feels very "this is not my environment!" to me. But then I suspect that I'd get into if I had it tweaked for my habits/workflow/whatev, and I like the web clip thingy, but the standard stuff that a lot of people don't seem to have changed from the default doesn't do much for me that I can't do with just feeds and knowing how to switch around fairly efficiently.
Oh, bless. That's a cool interface there on MacRumours. I hate the refreshing of the whole page.
Probably much less so if you live in LA, though.
I would contend that...but I just finished minimising the weather widget on iGoogle. It's there, you know, just in case something changes (I need to be alerted when the average temperature over a span of days is going to rise or fall by a delta of more than 5 degree Fahrenheit. That would be LA useful...I mean, inasmuch as it'd go off five or six times a year).
What technology is MacRumors using to update their page so tidily?
XMLHttpRequest, a.k.a. AJAX.
