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Dash Monitors 1.3u: Monitoring for your Dashboard
MailWidget 1.5
WordGuise 3.6.0 Universal
SunPosition Widget 1.1
A New Mac Tip Every Day 1.0
homerQuotes-widget 1.1
Kuler Dashboard Widget 1.0
Virtual Dashboard 1.3
iPhonestory Widget 1.0.1
New York City Subway Advisor 1.0
Dash Monitors 1.3u: Monitoring for your Dashboard
Dash Monitors is a Widget that runs under Mac OS X Tiger's new Dashboard functionality. Dash Monitors displays a graphic summary of your system resource usage including:
• CPU usage. (Dual Processor Compatible)
• Memory usage including Wired, Active, Inactive, and Free memory.
• Network bandwidth being used.
• Disk read and write speed.
Dash Monitors is great for users who would like to run a system monitor but do not want to sacrifice any screen real-estate while working.
Monitor Modes
There are 3 modes for each of the monitors: text, simple, and graphical. The text view mode shows a very simple text view of the resources being used and is beneficial because it takes very few system resources to generate the statistics. The simple view mode is the original view from Dash Monitors 1.0, and includes simple bar charts to show statistics in a graphical way without th eye candy. The graphical view mode, while taking more CPU resources to draw all the monitors, displays a fully imaged graphical interface to what is happening on the system. Text summaries are provided with the monitors in simple and graphical mode to provide the exact data along with the graphical approximations.
Open Source
Dash Monitors takes advantage of MTK for all of the statistics it gathers. MTK is open source and can be downloaded from the Gaucho Software Open Source pages. Look for more features in Dash Monitors as MTK is more fully developed.
Download and try Dash Monitors free for 30 days. After you find you can't live without it, purchase Dash Monitors for the low price of $9.95. Gaucho Software's web store is managed by eSellerate, and offers secure transactions using SSL encryption. If you are dissatisfied with Dash Monitors for any reason within 30 days of purchasing it, simply email requesting a return and we will refund your purchase.
New in version 1.3u:
• Support for Intel Macs.
New in version 1.3:
• Converted Graphic CPU display into an image set which will speed things up from using a canvas.
• Made sections of the code more robust (canvas drawing in particular).
• Fixed a bug when registering the widget while still in the trial period.
• Fixed a bug that would cause Dash Monitors to crash after logout/login or a reboot.
• Added robustness to the interface between Dash Monitors and MTK.
• Added a daemon mode to MTK, so if Dash Monitors unexpectedly quits, MTK will die along with it.
• Added support to MTK for more complex datasets, will be used for future monitors.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
$9.95 Shareware
For more information, visit:
http://www.gauchosoft.com/Software/Dash%20Monitors/
MailWidget 1.5
MailWidget checks your email account every time Dashboard is activated — without having Apple Mail running all the time. So far there is nothing special but, unlike other widgets, MailWidget knows which email was received by Apple Mail. Thats especially helpful for those who dont delete their old mail from the mail server immediately in order to be able to read their last mail on travels via webmail.
Other widgets might say something like "there are 88 messages on the mail server" but only MailWidget will tell if there are new emails that hadnt already been received by Apple Mail.
New in version 1.5:
• Improved IMAP server checking (thanks to Daniel Brown)
• MailWidget no longer spams the console.log when it has no connection to the server
• And a few minor changes
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later,
Apple Mail 2 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.students.uni-mainz.de/kwasmich/projects/mailwidget_en.html
WordGuise 3.6.0 Universal
WordGuise is a REALbasic plugin that defines a text editor widget for windows and macintosh. It is also an RTF control, supporting most if not all of the gadgets an RTF document provides and it allows embedding of picture objects in the text. The WordGuise widget also provides support for Waste documents, because it sits on top of the well known Waste library. On windows wordguise exploits RichEdit and implements interfaces allowing picture embedding.
The WordGuise class inherits from a WordGuiseContainer control. The plugin allows creation of a WordGuise instance in code (on-the-fly), in addition to a default RB behavior, i.e., WordGuise is a typical control. An instance can be created by dragging the WordGuiseContainer on the window and then setting the super to WordGuise. Embedding can be done in a window, a panel or a RectControl of your choice. WordGuise can also be modified to act as a StaticText field, while you can set it to have focus, enable drag and drop or select its caption. WordGuise on the Mac can be extended to WordGuiseEx. This will allow usage of the new Waste 3.0 engine in MacOSX/Mach-O. When using WordGuiseEx, make sure to remove WordGuise plugin from the Plugins folder at the root of the REALbasic application, and vice versa, when using
WordGuise do not put WordGuiseEx in the Plugins folder. WordGuiseEx has a different dylib (Mach-O) but otherwise is identical to WordGuise when it comes to MacOS PEF (OSX,classic) and Windows. Note that the WordGuise package comes with sample projects, while the WordGuiseEx package only contains the plugin. Further, if you purchase WordGuiseEx, you will need a license for WordGuise (which also includes all other plugins listed on this site) as well.
New in version 3.6:
• [fix]: when OSX 10.4.9 was introduced the canvas exhibited keydown events fired twice. It appears that one of the fixes RS introduced was the addition of a keydown event to every REALcontrol that is out there. However we map the REALcontrol events to our subclass WordGuise (in an identical way you would do within RB). We define and implement a KeyDown event for WordGuise for ages, but since WordGuise inherits from REALcontrol (WordGuiseContainer), WordGuise suddenly had to cope with two KeyDown events, because we did not map a keydown from the inherited REALcontrol. The presence of WordGuise(Ex) in the plugins folder was enough to disallow any compilation of a project, including the empty project. This version of WordGuise maps the keydown of the REALcontrol, and is backwards compatible.
System requirements:
REALbasic 5.5 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/vanhoek/#wordguise
SunPosition Widget 1.1
This widget can be used to connect to the SunPosition database and return calculations for: Sunrise, Sunset, Civil Dawn, Civil Dusk, Sunrise azimuth, Sunset azimuth, Latitude, Longitude and Magnetic declination for the selected location. The SunPosition widget will plot the suns path at 15 minute intervals for the selected date and location. Members can access the data printout page for that current selection directly from the widget. Azimuth, altitude calculations follow the sun through it's path.
This widget is for the Macintosh OSX Dashboard in OS10.4 'Tiger' and above, this widget is not for Windows OS's.
The widget is free to everyone, although members of the SunPosition service get full access to all 48,021 location entries while non members have limited access to approximately 8,000 locations. Sign-up to SunPosition.
Features include:
• Sunrise, sunset times
• Civil dawn & civil dusk times
• Azimuth and altitude results for any day of the year.
• Azimuth and altitude results stepped at 15 minute intervals via an interactive graph.
• Calculate for true north or magnetic north.
Non members get limited access to approximatly 8,000 locations while members get full access to over 49,500 preset locations. Members get access to a professional data printout with graph.
The SunPosition widget was developed with the assistance of Interdimensionmedia.com
New in version 1.1:
• Fix - Date menu now lists days correctly
• Fix - Localization now included on the State/country menu title.
• Fix - Localization now included on the date menu.
• Added - Favorites menu for listing members frequently used locations.
• Added - Add and delete favorites, this is synced with members account.
• Added - Localization for Swedish and French.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, an internet connection
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://sunposition.net/sunposition/index.php?widget
A New Mac Tip Every Day 1.0
This is a blog where you'll find a new tip about Mac every day. It is aimed at both Apple desktop and laptop computers. Many useful features are hidden in OS X. It is time to uncover them!
A New Mac Tip Every Day widget gives you the feed from the "A New Mac Tip Every Day" site right in your Dashboard.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://tips4mac.blogspot.com/
Download:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23748
homerQuotes-widget 1.1
homerQuotes widget... Get ready to take part of Homer Simpsons wisdom each time you bring up your dashboard. Let Homer share his clever remarks on his amazing white blackboard!
Features:
• Over 200 fantastically hilarious Homer-quotes!
• An amazing white blackboard!
• A fantastic round reload button!
• Automatic update-checker!
• And much more
New in version 1.1:
• Over 200 new quotes!
• Improved code
• General cleanup
• Dynamicly updated quote-list.
• Different Homers present the list.
• A more correct text-size scaling.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://homerquotes.wordpress.com/
Kuler Dashboard Widget 1.0
Kuler Dashboard Widget is a window into the world of Adobe Kuler - Adobe's newly updated web-based color theme serch and share application.
This widget puts the latest and best color scheme's right at your fingertips, along with the hex values.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://kuler.adobe.com/
Virtual Dashboard 1.3
With the release of Apple Macintosh OS X10.4, Apple released the Dashboard. The Dashboard allows you to use mini applications called widgets. These widgets allow you to see information such as the date and time, or the running value of stocks that the user can setup. They also can be games or just about anything that developers can come up with. The Dashboard makes it very handy to easily access these widgets and the type of data or information that the user wants to look at. There are literally thousands of these widgets that have been developed and can be downloaded from various sites. The problem with the Dashboard is that the number of widgets that can viewed on the screen at one time is limited to the amount of viewable screen space that the user has. To solve this, Virtual Dashboard was created. With Virtual Dashboard, users can create widget sets that can be switched in and out either through a menu or keyboard shortcuts. This allows users to create different sets and add or remove the widgets that they want to see. Virtual Dashboard allows the user to create as many sets as they desire. Users could literally have access to hundreds, if not thousands of widgets right at their fingertips
New in version 1.3:
Bugs Fixed:
• Fixed bug that new items added to a set, and placed on screen, then set edited again, Dashboard items would not keep there correct position.
New Feature:
• Added new feature to show Dashboard items on the desktop while the Dashboard is not active.
• Can switch Dashboard Items to show on Desktop with user defined Key Combination
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Virtual Dashboard is a shareware application. You are free to use it as much as you like for 30 days from its first run. After that, you are asked to either purchase it or remove it from your computer. The cost of Virtual Dashboard is only USD 10.00, and a license can be purchased through Kagi at the Virtual Dashboard order page. After 30 days, the application will be crippled and the user will only be allowed to use the first two sets created. No new sets may be created.
For more information, visit:
http://www.bitblasters.com/
iPhonestory Widget 1.0.1
Iphonestory Widget is a small utility designed to display the RSS feed news of website http://www.iphonestory.com : "the story of iPhone in news".
New in version 1.0.1:
• In front: Displays more news.
• In the back: A video on iPhone.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.iphonestory.com/
New York City Subway Advisor 1.0
This widget is a shortcut to the MTAs New York City Subway service advisory pages. There you can get updates in service changes throughout the week.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24503/new-york-city-subway-advisor
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