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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.
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andy said 4:56PM on 7-27-2005
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?
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aprodite said 6:22PM on 7-27-2005
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.
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brian said 1:36AM on 7-29-2005
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!
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