Widgets in your dock

Our lounge for socialising and for all general topics in good taste. Including all SillyDog701 related issues.

Moderators: Edward, profman, Mandrake

Widgets in your dock

Postby biffadams » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 3:04 pm

Just curious to know what kind of cool widgets you guys all use.

I'm still collecting them for my dock, it could use some sprucing up!
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
biffadams
junior member
junior member
 
Posts: 5
Joined: Tue 15 Jul, 2008 12:54 pm

Postby beanboy89 » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 4:44 pm

Simple. I don't use a dock or widgets.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
User avatar
beanboy89
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 1650
Joined: Sun 16 May, 2004 8:56 am

Postby Don_HH2K » Tue 15 Jul, 2008 4:58 pm

Occasionally I use Vista's sidebar widgets to monitor my CPU and RAM usage; usually that's when I've got something running in the background (such as an encoder) that I want to monitor without having to keep the window open.

I usually keep the Sidebar disabled to unclutter things.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0 x64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008062415 Minefield/3.0 (mmoy CE K8Q-X05)
Laptop: HP Compaq nx6325 - Turion 64 X2 @ 2GHz, 2GB DDR2, 100GB HD, ATI Radeon X300, 15" LCD, Seven Pro
Handheld: Palm Treo 650 - Intel PXA270 @ 312MHz, 10MB RAM, 32MB flash, 2.7" LCD, Palm OS 5.4
User avatar
Don_HH2K
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 5112
Joined: Sun 09 May, 2004 3:59 pm

Postby biffadams » Wed 16 Jul, 2008 3:35 pm

ones i'm currently playing around with:

http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/full-size-synth-piano
http://www.potentialmatic.ca (to reach my FULL potential ;)
http://www.technospot.net/blogs/5-amazi ... nload-now/ (these are pretty cool too.)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15
biffadams
junior member
junior member
 
Posts: 5
Joined: Tue 15 Jul, 2008 12:54 pm

Postby James » Wed 16 Jul, 2008 7:58 pm

As few as possible: an Amazon and a Google search and a clock... period.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
James
User avatar
James
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 2707
Joined: Sat 13 Jul, 2002 12:10 am
Location: Pacific NW USA

Postby Antony » Thu 17 Jul, 2008 6:30 pm

World Clocks (so I know the time in London and Boston), a calendar, a calculator, a unit converter (for currency converting), and an iiNet usage metre.

Here in Australia, we have download limits (quotas) as well as peak and off-peak hours for the ADSL.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14510
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

Postby Happy Dude » Sat 19 Jul, 2008 7:43 pm

Adam Internet usage meter - same reason as Antony
CPU/RAM usage - for the hell of it
Weather
Clock - for the timr :o

[offtopic]Antony, TPG here in Australia are coming out with a 500GB, ADSL2+ plan for $79.99/mth soon. :D [/offtopic]
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Happy Dude
member
member
 
Posts: 74
Joined: Wed 07 May, 2008 8:07 am

Postby Antony » Sun 20 Jul, 2008 3:25 am

Happy Dude wrote:[offtopic]Antony, TPG here in Australia are coming out with a 500GB, ADSL2+ plan for $79.99/mth soon. :D [/offtopic]
Thanks Happy Dude,

I don't usually go over my 25GB + 40GB ADSL2 quota. Actually, Laurent has just cancelled his TPG (ADSL2) account. (We used to have two internet accounts in this house.)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14510
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

Postby Happy Dude » Sun 20 Jul, 2008 6:56 am

Heh, I wouldn't mind 500GB, at least with all the downloading going on in my house we wouldn't be throttled...

As far as I know TPG are also trialling an unlimited off-peak plan...

anyway, thats enough offtopic-ness for me :/
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Happy Dude
member
member
 
Posts: 74
Joined: Wed 07 May, 2008 8:07 am

Postby Mandrake » Mon 21 Jul, 2008 3:35 am

I'm on the iiNet 40 + 60 plan and never run out of quota. iiUsage still comes in handy for keeping tabs on how much quota has been used. :)
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Core i7 920 | ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 | 3TB+ HDD | 12GB Corsair DDR3 | Radeon 4890 Xfire | X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty | Logitech Z-5500 Speakers | Dell 3008WFP | Seven RC1
User avatar
Mandrake
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 4193
Joined: Fri 13 Sep, 2002 6:35 am

Postby Antony » Mon 21 Jul, 2008 11:10 pm

Mandrake wrote:I'm on the iiNet 40 + 60 plan and never run out of quota. iiUsage still comes in handy for keeping tabs on how much quota has been used. :)


Sorry to go off-topic,
Did you get an email from iiNet (early July) giving you free quota upgrade?

Mine went from 20GB (peak) to 25GB (peak). (same 40GB off peak).
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
User avatar
Antony
diamond member
diamond member
 
Posts: 14510
Joined: Tue 18 Jun, 2002 11:36 pm
Location: Sydney, Australia

Postby Mandrake » Tue 22 Jul, 2008 3:32 am

Yes. Our peak quota remained at 40GB but the offpeak increased by 20GB to 60GB.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Core i7 920 | ASUS P6T Deluxe v2 | 3TB+ HDD | 12GB Corsair DDR3 | Radeon 4890 Xfire | X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty | Logitech Z-5500 Speakers | Dell 3008WFP | Seven RC1
User avatar
Mandrake
Moderator
Moderator
 
Posts: 4193
Joined: Fri 13 Sep, 2002 6:35 am

Re: Widgets in your dock

Postby Anonymosity » Thu 24 Jul, 2008 12:26 am

biffadams wrote:Just curious to know what kind of cool widgets you guys all use.

I'm still collecting them for my dock, it could use some sprucing up!

I have widgets, but they are in my dashboard, not in my dock. I have iStat Pro, the clock, the calendar, Proxify, a units converter, a widget that shows the phase of the moon, and 3 games.
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko Firefox/3.0.1
Anonymosity
silver member
silver member
 
Posts: 318
Joined: Sat 21 Jun, 2008 2:56 am


Return to SillyDog701 Lounge

Who is online

Registered users: Google [Bot]