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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.
I can just have a tab open to google all the time and I forget what's available on Dashboard.
Yes, this. Although I can google from every screen in Opera, as well as from context-sensitive highlights in the text, I keep an iGoogle page open anyway. My standard computer workflow has me periodically check my browser, and my standard browser workflow has me periodically check every tab (that way I actually close them in a more timely fashion) so I even get my news that way.
Hmm. If I add movies to iGoogle, I'll barely need my Yahoo! anymore...
I'll be back.
XMLHttpRequest, a.k.a. AJAX.
Yeah, but AJAX with a lot of thought given to optimizing the interface for just what's needed to be fast and clean for this high-load stuff. I love it. Especially with those other tabs open to compare it to....
Safari on Windows--why bother?