Updated: 11/19/05; 12:31:05 PM

 Tuesday, May 31, 2005
The Best Mac Dashboard Widgets (according to the suits at Forbes(
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Forbes takes a stab at identifying the most popular and useful Widgets for Mac OS X Tiger. The list includes the following widgets:

  • Package Tracker
  • SlothCam
  • Yahoo! Traffic
  • TV Tracker
  • Now Playing
  • Scoreboard
  • Zwebwatch
  • Unit Converter
  • Flight Tracker
  • NASA Video
Personally, I don't particularly agree with thier findings but to each their own. Or perhaps I'm just bitter that such a huge publication like Forbes uses such lame web design by making the user click through a dozen different screens to see the widgets instead od presenting it as a single page (but then they couldn't show as many ads down own throats of course).
9:12:16 PM    
Daring Fireball's Take on the Intel Chip Switch Rumors
The himself, John Gruber once again nails it with his thoughts about the less-than-legit rumors that circulated last week about Apple's rumored switch to the Intel platform.

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Reading between the lines, I think this is less about whether Apple actually intends to switch processors, and more about planted leaks intended to spur IBM. (For what it’s worth, the Journal article mentions this as a possibility; but few of the sites that breathlessly linked to the story mentioned anything more than the “The Wall Street Journal says Apple is moving the Mac to Intel!” part.) More than just the money IBM makes from Apple under their current arrangement, there’s also the pride/publicity factor: the underlying theme of this rumor is that Apple might turn to Intel because IBM can’t compete against Intel’s technology. Whether it’s a fair assessment or not, it’s not the sort of idea IBM wants in the public’s conventional wisdom.

My prediction: I’ll be writing about this again in 2007.

5:06:57 AM