Yeah, the weather and the weather radar are really useful. Probably much less so if you live in LA, though.
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Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2007 9:02:37 am PDT #1856 of 25505
hwæt
amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:03:58 am PDT #1857 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
-t - Jun 11, 2007 9:06:02 am PDT #1858 of 25505
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:07:14 am PDT #1859 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:08:16 am PDT #1860 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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).
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2007 9:09:25 am PDT #1861 of 25505
hwæt
What technology is MacRumors using to update their page so tidily?
XMLHttpRequest, a.k.a. AJAX.
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:10:54 am PDT #1862 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
amych - Jun 11, 2007 9:13:25 am PDT #1863 of 25505
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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....
§ ita § - Jun 11, 2007 9:16:18 am PDT #1864 of 25505
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Safari on Windows--why bother?
Tom Scola - Jun 11, 2007 9:19:14 am PDT #1865 of 25505
hwæt
Especially with those other tabs open to compare it to....
Yeah, Gizmodo was bragging this morning how fast their liveblogging would be. They got PWNED.