"Gadgets" in Windows Vista

[Lt Major Burns]

fryke, have you tried recently? i mean i can search for something like

specular highlights test 1.psd

and it'll be the first result. from the main spotlight search box... does this still not work for you?

[Mikuro]

AFAIK, Microsoft is bringing absolutely nothing new to the table here. But then again, neither did Apple. Konfabulator did more than Dashboard years earlier.

I think anyone using widgets/gadgets for "business purposes" must be on a whoooole lotta crack! I've seen lots of things that try to mimic some part of Activity Monitor, and all I can think is....it would be so much better to just use Activity Monitor!

Then again, I guess using a regular application on Windows is more of a burden than on the Mac, since it takes up task bar space. Hmm.

The only thing I use Dashboard for is translation. And that's not because it does it well, mind you. It's just that it's easier than going a translation site in Safari. Whenever there's an alternative application, like Calculator or Dictionary, I use that instead. I tried to like Dashboard. I really did. But it's just more trouble than it's worth for me.

[sirstaunch]

be interesting, my PC friend had only shruded his shoulder at Widgets, bet its a different story when he goes out and gets Vista to discover this (thinking he may forget my mac had it first) and think WOW!

Like i showed him the apple/D (oops can't remember key combo right now)key over words and the dictionary will drop down, he claimed he can do that on windows? anyone seen that on windogs before except maybe Microslop Word showing spelling mistakes is all I can think of...hmmm?

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by Mikuro

AFAIK, Microsoft is bringing absolutely nothing new to the table here. But then again, neither did Apple. Konfabulator did more than Dashboard years earlier.

I think anyone using widgets/gadgets for "business purposes" must be on a whoooole lotta crack! I've seen lots of things that try to mimic some part of Activity Monitor, and all I can think is....it would be so much better to just use Activity Monitor!

Then again, I guess using a regular application on Windows is more of a burden than on the Mac, since it takes up task bar space. Hmm.

The only thing I use Dashboard for is translation. And that's not because it does it well, mind you. It's just that it's easier than going a translation site in Safari. Whenever there's an alternative application, like Calculator or Dictionary, I use that instead. I tried to like Dashboard. I really did. But it's just more trouble than it's worth for me.

that's exactly it isn't it? why use some clunky, slow Java applet to do what a fully functioning Cocoa app does better.... cocoa launches faster than the dashboard does to load evrything up anyway...

[Graeme43]

Originally Posted by fryke

Ooooooooold news. ... I guess MS and Apple have been talking about this before even Tiger was announced. Apple changed the name of their "gadgets" to "widgets" shortly before Tiger was announced. The first build of Tiger released at WWDC back then still called them gadgets in some places. (File ending, for example.)

The WWDC build also called them gadgets in the box that had all the names of the widgets you currently had. We all know where MS got the name! :P

[fryke]

Lt.: Searching for "images.p" does not find my "flashimages.psd" in Spotlight's main search field. It works, of course, if I go the strange way of opening a search in Finder and then put "images.p" into the "name_contains" field that I have to add myself everytime (unless I hack the default template, which I've done, but I shouldn't HAVE TO...). I simply want Spotlight's prefs to allow me to have "name contains" as the default.

[Lt Major Burns]

wow you're right. that's so stupid...