Widget Watch: Ta-da Lists widget

We TUAW bloggers certainly love Backpack, the super-simple online PIM from 37 Signals, and it's Dashboard widget is pretty slick too. Naturally, I was excited to see a Dashboard widget pop up in endo this morning for Ta-da List, 37 Signals' one-trick-pony todo list manager. The Ta-da Lists Widget allows you to create new todo lists lists and add items to those lists. It's a pretty straight forward widget for a very straight forward service.
One catch I ran into while setting the widget up, however, is the way the widget first logs into your account. I flipped the widget over, entered my name and password and then the widget asked me to log into Ta-da Lists first through my browser, specifying that I check the "remember me" box. I use Camino, and for some odd reason the widget couldn't catch that I logged into the service, so it wouldn't allow me to start using my lists. Only when I logged in through Safari did the widget kick into gear and download my information.
Aside from the registration hiccup, this widget is really handy. It's fast, slick, and in true 37 Signals form: simple and effective.
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We TUAW bloggers certainly love Backpack, the super-simple online PIM from 37 Signals, and it's Dashboard widget is pretty slick too....
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What I really could use is a BaseCamp Widget, now that would get me to use the dock
March 14 2006 at 1:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply#2: Good call Aaron, I should've realized that. Since Camino is so OS X-like, I keep forgetting it's still a Mozilla browser.
March 14 2006 at 1:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI learn so many cool tools from TUAW. First Quicksilver, now this! Thanks!
March 14 2006 at 12:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyChipt.com has had a Backpack Widget around for a few months, and it's actually smaller (and more feature rich) than the TaDa Widget. Might be worth a look.
March 14 2006 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI wouldn't think that the deal with logging in using Camino would be unexpected. The Dashboard widgets use Webkit as their backend, so of course they jive with Safari and not Firefox or Camino. I assume that includes shared cookies.
March 14 2006 at 11:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI had the same problem with Camino. Thanks for posting that info, I was getting really frustrated.
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