Comments on: Yahoo Widgets 4: Memory Hog Be Gone

By: Widgets: From Dashboard to Desktop | MacApper

Widgets: From Dashboard to Desktop | MacApper — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:01:02 +0000

[...] Apple added the Dashboard to OS X, Mac users used Konfabulator (now Yahoo! Widgets). While Konfabulator put its widgets on the desktop, OS X puts its widgets on the Dashboard. Many [...]

By: Yahoo Widgets 4: Memory Hog Be Gone at 3motions.net

Yahoo Widgets 4: Memory Hog Be Gone at 3motions.net — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:29:12 +0000

[...] Originally from MacApper by Jamie Diamond reBlogged by Simon Menke on Apr 4, 2007, 12:00PM [...]

By: alej744

alej744 — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:55:24 +0000

I can’t really imagine myself using this now that I have dashboard. Last time I checked, all the widgets available for Konfabulator (yes, I’m still calling it that) sucked compared to the amount of great Dashboard “gadgets”.

By: Yohannes Wijaya

Yohannes Wijaya — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:00:51 +0000

I am just sticking through w/ dashboard until leopard. In tiger, every widget creates its own instance. so if you are running multiple widgets, they can definitely be resource-hogging. But in leopard, every/all instance of running widgets will be unified into one running process.

By: Quan

Quan — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:11:58 +0000

i’ve been using this for a couple of weeks. it’s really nice, better than dashboard really. the biggest difference is that you can dock the yahoo widget on your desktop. don’t think you can do that w/ dashboard widgets (although correct me if i’m wrong). try it out.

By: Alex Galonsky

Alex Galonsky — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:20:49 +0000

Hmm I may have to try this. Dashboard is quite the memory hog.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:26:19 +0000

Nice writeup Jamie. I may just try this out, but I wish Apple would take a similar approach with dashboard in using less system resources. In fact that’s the reason why I rarely use the dashboard anymore.