Best Dashboard widgets for web developers

It's certainly no secret that I like Dashboard widgets. Just when I start to think I'm going a little overboard with the widget love, I find a list like this: The Best Of Dashboard Widgets for Web Developers. On her site, Lisa McMillan describes many of the cool widgets that have found a permanent home on her Mac, including:

ShortStat, which displays the total number of hits to your site, as well as total unique hits and the 7 most recent referrers (I took a look at ShortStat last month)
TypeCast, which allows you to quickly preview fonts and whole font families
CSS Cheat Sheet. Now this is cool. CSS Cheat Sheet displays the contents of the very comprehensive CSS Cheat Sheet file over at I Love Jack Daniels, right in your Dashboard. Cheat sheet indeed!
Colourmod A nifty slider to quicky select hex colors.

There are many more. Check them all out. Thanks to Lisa for compiling such a great list.

[Via What Do I Know]

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Source: http://www.lisamcmillan.com/journal/bestof-dashboard-edition

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brian

Hi there! Thanks for linking to my cheat sheet widget. I'm honored! I want to mention that I made a PHP Cheat Sheet widget too, again, based on the php cheat sheet from I Love Jack Daniels you can check out the widget here: http://bw.watchtan.com/widgets/136/php-cheat-sheet Thanks!

July 29 2005 at 1:16 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

aprodite

I run Tiger on a 600mhz G3 iBook, with 384mb ram, I don't the core image effects, but otherwise, it runs amazingly well. I reckon you'd have no problems with a Mac Mini and 512mb ram.

July 27 2005 at 6:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

andy

Man, those all look really great. I've been waiting to upgrade to Tiger until I can get some more memory for my Mini. From what I understand the dashboard can be kind of a memory hog. But I've also heard that the latest update with the Dashboard manager cuts that down a lot. Do you think I could get away with my 512MB?

July 27 2005 at 4:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply