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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[1984 calculator ftw!!!11]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 2:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[One major bummer is how resource hungry Dashboard widgets are. Each widget will consume several dozen megabytes for lunch.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NutMac]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[The term "desk ornaments" was only used by the guys who thought it up. By the time they appeared on Macs, they were "desk accessories." Man, I'm old.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Walsh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[hmm]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[vincent li]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[How about links to where you found those widgets? The PHP one looks particularly handy.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[It's called PHPfr:<br><a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/phpfunctionreference.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/phpfunctionreference.html</a><br><br>It's an awesome little widget. I use it daily.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Pierce]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yep, they were desk accessories. I still keep certain tools like calculator and Stickies in a folder call 'DAs'. Some habits die hard.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 3:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[Where can I get the 1984 calculator desktop widget?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rcappo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 4:14PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[The start of the article was very interesting, but then it turns into a leopard comercial.<br>dont get me wrong, im a mac user, and i like to hear about the inards of my OS, but just quoting apple pr is not what im interested in.<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[qwert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 4:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[Seriously... How many different links to Apples website in this article? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 5:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[IIRC with the original System 1 you could only have one app running at a time, and it occupied the whole screen, you couldn't even have multiple apps and switch between them.  The beauty of desk accesories is you could have multiple running at a time in the Finder to handle little tasks like running a quick calculation or jotting something down on the notepad.  I can't recall, could you fire them up in other apps too?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[krizoitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 4:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[this sounds interesting]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[charlesgreene4]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 4:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[Considering Konfabulator was the firs "modern" widget program, I'm surprised they never get more credit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Jenkins]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 4:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[iStat Pro FTW!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LukeA]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 5:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree, iStat Pro is by far, the most useful widget.<br><br><a href="http://www.islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=7" rel="nofollow">http://www.islayer.com/index.php?op=item&id=7</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Galley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 6:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[@krizoitz:  yeah, you could run desk accessories in any app.  That's why they were cool;  since you could only run one app at a time on the mac in the 80's DAs let you get small things done without having to quit your main app.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[lauralemay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 7:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[The same guys who originally developed Konfabulator also developed Kaleidoscope for the classic Mac OS, making skinning your Mac a very easy process, and probably a friendlier one than ShapeShifter and the like are to todays Mac OS. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[fuzzmanmatt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 11:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[That was for the Lisa not the Mac...I am older than all of you....and I can prove it as I have a working Lisa at my office]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MJ Posner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 9:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[And don't forget stuff like SideKick for DOS... stuff like that made the insanely single-tasking file manager pseudo-OS usable for a lot of people.  And might as well remember DESQView from Quarterdeck, which took the TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident, named after interrupt 27 in DOS) theme to the max circa 1984-1985.<br><br>Apple didn't invent EVERYTHING... just most things.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Turtle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 23rd 2007 11:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Enwidget: Dashboard - under the hood and where we're headed]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/23/enwidget-dashboard-under-the-hood-and-where-were-headed/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Mike Jenkins<br>"Considering Konfabulator was the firs "modern" widget program, I'm surprised they never get more credit."<br><br>Maybe because Konfabulator was NOT the first, not by a long way? Stardock's DesktopX on Windows precedes it by a long way, being first released in 2000 - 3 years earlier than Konfabulator on the Mac.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Monkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 24th 2007 10:19AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
