Dashboard - What's the point?

I've lost faith in the dashboard weather widget tbh.

It never shows the right weather conditions :o

I use mine for iStat Pro and a few random things like Imageshack. I've been usin Spotlight for most things lately. It's the perfect calculator and dictionary.
 
I don't use the weather widget, instead I have 2 webclips - the 5-day and 24-hour forecasts from the BBC website.

Additionally, I use the calculator, have a webclip for my router stats, have the BBC radio widget and iStat.

My dashboard takes a couple of seconds to load the first time I use it after restarting my iMac. Is there anyway to set it so that the widgets etc load in the background, so that when I hit F12 for the first time, they're there, ready to go?
 
on webclips... if the website requires a login... how do you get that to work with dashboard or is it not possible? for example if i wanted to have part of the 'for sale' forum on here how do i get it to work... it always just show the login screen for me.
 
I hadn't thought about web-clipping the router stats page :cool:

Saying that, I may disable dashboard tonight, see if I can last a week without it.
 
never use it anymore. Used to have a hot corner, then realised I'd rather have the calculator when I need it and the stickies app because I have a lot of stickies on the go usually.
 
What does everyone's dashboard look like?

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hah 'Monies i owe..' :D

I use it for weather but as has been said it doesn't seem very accurate.. calculator I just press the calc button on my keyboard which brings up the proper one instantly.

I've used iStat Pro but don't have it anymore.. I don't really care how much memory I have free or how fast the fan is spinning. I've used the iTunes album art fetcher but it can be quite unreliable - sometimes it just won't paste the artwork in or it randomly uses something different from what it is actually displaying.

Dictionary app on dock.
 
JUMPURS said:
See the webclips part, i assume that will refresh the part of the page you clip automatically?
So if i clip around the 2 mac fora on here, it will refresh the latest post whenever i launch the dashboard?
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Yes.
 
lloydsj said:
So will this work for the members market too? and other sites that require login. If so where does it pick up your username/password from.
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Just tried it and it seems to work.

It doesn't need to get a username or password as you have a cookie saved in safari. If you log out from OCUK in safari it probably would stop working..
 
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