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Ego Systems releases widget preference pane
You're running Tiger. You're downloading Dashboard widgets left and right. You install and launch widgets just to see what they do. Now you've got an unwieldy heap of widets on your Mac, some you use all the time, some you'll never look at again. What's a neurotic Type A Mac addict to do?Enter Ego Systems' Widget Preference Pane. With it, you can see all of your installed widgets and deactivate, activate or delete any of them, install new widgets via drag and drop, control Safari’s “Open Safe Files” function...even disable the Dashboard completely. Rejoice, widget junkies, this one is for you.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kellsworth said 2:32PM on 6-23-2005
I've been trying to get rid of this damn hula girl for a while now.
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Mart said 3:49PM on 6-23-2005
I'm reluctant to install a version 1.0 program - no matter how tempting it is to rid myself of these almost totally useless widgets.
I can only imagine that in spite of all the geeks loving them, the vast majority of mac users never use these at all and would like to turn them off completely.
either that - or make the damn things stay on the desktop, like any other program does, instead of hide in normal use.
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genesysx said 5:23PM on 6-23-2005
There is also Widget Manager from Downtown Software House.
http://www.downtownsoftwarehouse.com/WidgetManager/
It is at version 1.1.0
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Joshj112 said 5:42PM on 6-23-2005
How do you get them to stay on the desktop? Can't seem to figure it out.
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Mart said 7:23PM on 6-23-2005
supposedly this: Amnesty:
http://www.mesadynamics.com/amnesty.htm
lets you keep widgets on the desktop. but it's in beta, so user beware.
For me, not only is Tiger too faulty to have installed, but these workarounds to correct some of the flaws are too new right now.
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