SimpsonBot, Krispy Kreme, Tabit! widgets top list
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 2, 2005 at 4:19am
The three Dashboard widgets topping the list DashboardWidgets at the end of the day on Monday were:
° SimpsonBot (shown) displays a random quote from The Simpsons.
° Krispy Kreme finds the nearest Krispy Kreme franchise by ZIP code.
° Tabit! searches for for guitar tab or chords online via a Mac OS X-like search box. You can search by song title or band name.
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.
