ColourMod, iSend, SMS widgets top list
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 19, 2005 at 2:36am
The three Dashboard widgets topping the list DashboardWidgets at the The three Dashboard widgets topping the list DashboardWidgets at the end of the day on Thursday were:
° ColourMod, a color picker that lets you select any color you want. You can make fine adjustments via the text field inputs or by dragging the color sliders. ColourMod outputs Hex, RGB and HSV values and converts between the three.
° iSend, a widget which sends SMS messages to a compatible cellphone. iSend now uses Google instead of Yahoo, which means there are no account requirements. On the other hand, you’ll have to stick to the 2000 character limit, but the widget’s developers say they’re working on that.
° SMS, a widget that lets you send text messages to mobile phones for free. It works with Cingular, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile, Nextel, Virgin Mobile, Alltel, and Qwest in the USA. The developers are also beta testing T-Mobile in Germany. The SMS widget integrates with the Mac OS X Address Book. After you send a message, the widget “remembers” your contact’s carrier so that you don’t need to enter it in the future. You can include your mobile number or email as the reply address of your messages. This lets recipients reply to your SMS messages.
DashboardWidgets is a Web site devoted to a complete overview of the Dashboard technology in Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) and widgets that are released daily. Dashboard is a semi-transparent layer of Tiger that zooms across your Desktop with a single button click, similar to the way Exposé works. Dashboard is home to a new kind of application called Widgets, which are mini-applications written in JavaScript and “designed for fun as well as function.”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
