Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Mac Widget Review #1 "Organized"

"Organized," brought to us by the same people who brought us "iStat Pro" has been installed in my dashboard for approximately 14 minutes (although it came out last October, I'm slow I guess).  I love it already.  In that 14 minutes I've been able to delete 3 other widgets from my dashboard (sorry iCal, Stickies, and World Clock) and well I guess that's all really.  But how great?

Most of the reason I stay away from installing too many widgets is because I have limited screen space and I don't like having to shuffle things around (take my iTunes library for instance - I could never own an iPod smaller than 30g and even that has reached its limit & it was very painful for me when I had to start manually selecting songs).  But with this widget, so much space is freed up on my dashboard!  It has the functionality of iCal, World Clock, Post-its, and To-Do Lists, but takes up the space of a calculator (pictured below: four different screen shots from the widget).  Now I have room for at least four sizable widgets and maybe even a couple smaller ones.  I mean, obviously you could fit a million widgets on your dashboard, but if you're like me and don't like overlapping, this widget really helps you out.

Also, it's free (like most widgets), but iSlayer encourages donations, so donate!  Not that I've gotten there yet, but I'm unemployed and currently missing my debit card, so there's really not much I can do for them.  My donation is this free plug I'm giving to the small circle of people who read this (and I know most of you are Mac users).  So if you're poor, too, but want to help iSlayer, you can send your rich friends a link to this and we can all feel better about ourselves, and I can start to feel like an internet celebrity (even though that's not my goal). 

So, go to http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/ anytime relatively following this post date and you should be able to find "Organized" right there on the front page (that's how good it is), but if you're reading this to catch up on all my posts now that I'm a famous blogger and you need to know how humble I was when I started, then just do a simple search on that same link or from the iSlayer website directly and you, too, will have a cleaner and more efficient dashboard!

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