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Mine has whatever it came with: time, weather, date, and calculator. Boring, eh?

I never use it b/c I keep any scripts/stickers/widgets I need on my homepage (either a Google homepage, which has hundreds of little widgety choices, or something I code myself) so it's available regardless of what computer I'm using.
 
Depends on what you want. I never downloaded any b/c the ones on my homepage are part of the page's code and the Google ones you make by just choosing the ones you want it to display.

The homepage I use on all my computers is basically all the links I go to in a day, plus all the weather stickers relevant to me (GR, Chicago, Naples FL, and Gulf Shores AL) and my school/work's live webcam b/c I don't have a window.

http://www.dutchbingo.net/home.htm (It's pretty boring at the moment)

My Google homepage (which I don't use anymore) had a Gmail feed, some links I entered, some games I like (Color Junction and Bejeweled), a calendar, these eyes that follow the mouse cursor, a calculator, IMDB, wikipedia, and news feeds from BBC and NYT. Basically, you can choose from various news feeds, games, jokes, streaming video feed from YouTube (like sports highlights), and all the regular stuff.

I don't know if they are the same types of widgets Dashboard uses, but a "widget" is a pretty generic term for these little apps, not unique to Mac. In fact, my co-workers used widgets on their computers long before OS X. The word itself usually refers to a single unit of some kind of simple machine.

You can also get widgets from Yahoo, but I don't go near Yahoo with a cyber ten foot pole!
 
a lot!!! so much that I can't use all of them in the space I have in my PB but my favs are wikipedia, the iPhone that displays Apple News & iTunes RSS, my own blog's widget, iStat Pro, Free Text messages from CallWave, chronoTrack, calendar & whoopee(yes it is what you think it is), among others, :)
-FCA
 
The ones I mainly use are the calculator, weather widget, iTunes artwork, miniStat2, Transmit widget, and Screenshot Plus.


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redhotswami said:
^ :lmao: chuck norris bites frost. ahahahahhahaa.

i have to say, sometimes i'd flip to Walker, Texas Ranger, and watch for about 30 seconds, and afterwards was roaring with laughter.

Did you ever watch Conan O’Brien? He has a "Walker Texas Ranger" handle which he pulls and you get a clip from the show... It's bizarre but extremely funny, there was one scene with a jet pack I almost died!
 
elevated_u2_fan said:


Did you ever watch Conan O’Brien? He has a "Walker Texas Ranger" handle which he pulls and you get a clip from the show... It's bizarre but extremely funny, there was one scene with a jet pack I almost died!

:love: I didn't see that one! Conan and I are soulmates. Too bad he doesn't know.
 
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