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Product Description:
Dashboard Widgets are fun, but they have brought with them several new headaches for Mac users:
Management - If you use Safari, or you know where Widgets are supposed to be installed, installing and removing Widgets is easy. If you don't, how to manage your Widgets can be a real mystery.
Security - The first version of Tiger opened a big Widget-shaped security hole in Mac OS X. The 10.4.1 update tries to fix this, but it could have done more.
Customization - Don't like Dashboard? Want to use Widgets outside of the Dashboard? Want to use a different image for your Widget "shelf"? All of these things are possible, but Apple didn't give you an easy way to do any of them.
Our Widgets Preference Pane for Mac OS X allows you to truly take control of your Widgets by allowing you to:
See all of your installed Widgets and deactivate, activate or delete any of them.
Install new Widgets with a simple drag and drop.
Secure both the System and User Widget folders via Tiger's new Access Control List (ACL) security system.
Control Safari's "Open Safe Files" function.
Disable the Dashboard completely.
Allow Widgets on the Desktop.
Change the the Dashboard shelf graphic. (We even provide 4 great new graphics to get you started!)
Unlike similar utilities, there's no rebooting required and no logging out and back in. Everything happens immediately, and you control it all from one convenient preference pane. (As an added bonus, a Universal Binary version of the Widgets Preference Pane is included on the disk image.)
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.7) |
Features: | (3.7) |
Support: | (4.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.7) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.3) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Click the lock to make changes - Version: 1.0, 6/25/2005 02:30PM PST
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Timothy Romero
I think that an option to "click the lock to make changes" like in System-related preference panes is a definite <i>priority</i> before even considering any other updates, as entering my new 15-character password every time I want to change something is not very fun (although it is good practice at typing it!). Also, I noticed that the buttons for scrolling through the widgets do not blend with the background when it has been changed to something other than the default, they don't have transparency. Also, you should include a widget that you can click on that has no interface, but just launches the system preferences pane, as it's such a pain to always go into system preferences manually.
Another thing I noticed is that it doesn't recognize widgets that have been disabled by the widget "Widget Manager," which renames disabled widgets as "[widget name].wdgt.disabled."
Finally, I noticed that some widgets that are "run outside of dashboard" (such as Stickies) automatically pop back in as soon as dashboard is activated, and always float above all other windows, therefore mostly eliminating the purpose of being out of the dashboard.
Another thing I noticed is that it doesn't recognize widgets that have been disabled by the widget "Widget Manager," which renames disabled widgets as "[widget name].wdgt.disabled."
Finally, I noticed that some widgets that are "run outside of dashboard" (such as Stickies) automatically pop back in as soon as dashboard is activated, and always float above all other windows, therefore mostly eliminating the purpose of being out of the dashboard.
But Widgets Preference Pane really Great.