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Kickstart your Dashboard with Dashboard Starter
You're familiar with the scenario: You've recently restarted your Mac, or perhaps you've logged out of Mac OS X. You launch Dashboard and frown while you wait for your widgets to load. All you want is a simple glance at the weather, and you're staring at an inactive weather widget. Urgh.Enter Dashboard Starter. It's not a widget, but a utility that initiates the Dashboard startup sequence quietly in the background. It's triggered by the restarting of the Dock, so all of your widgets are ready to go after that restart or login. Dashboard Starter requires Mac OS 10.4 or greater and is freeware.
[Via Macworld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Asif Alibhai said 5:20PM on 10-17-2005
This app is so great - It's real embarrassing when you say to someone 'Yeah, I'll just check the weather' and you end up having to wait.
Now we can continue being smug with our Macs :D
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Balazs Hollos said 5:23PM on 10-17-2005
I have been looking for something like this for ages. I hate when the dashboard takes ages to load. Thanks.
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Kurt Zenisek said 5:51PM on 10-17-2005
Yeah, i've been using this small app for a while now. And I just love it. I find myself using widgets more often, because i'm not scared of having to wait for them to load when i want to see them
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SR said 7:15PM on 10-17-2005
superb. absolutely superb.
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Harv Nagra said 3:19PM on 10-23-2005
This app should actually initiate when your computer wakes from sleep. I never shutdown my computer, and Dashboard seems to take forever to run after I wake up my Powerbook.
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