My Dashboard
The Mac dashboard is something I'm in and out of countless times daily. Its the one-glance go-to place for the daily dose of information and nifty tricks along with system monitoring.
1. Events & Calendar
The black box on the top left. Lists all the events I have coming up in the next week. Great way to keep tabs on what's due when.
2. Time zones
Mumbai and London. Home and the other one has largely stuck because of @SamarthB
3. Address Book search
Extremely quick contact look-up. Can be done through Spotlight as well though.
4. Weather
Mumbai and NYC.
5. Album Art
Quick glance at what's playing, and to rate it.
6. Countdown
Currently counting down the days till I head home for summer.
7. Smplr
The black box near the top right. Search Wiki, IMDb, Google etc. instantly.
8. Transmit Widget
Drag-and-drop instant FTP upload.
9. Conversion
Bloody fahrenheit.
10. Screen Capture
Extremely useful. This post is an example.
11. Currency Monitor
Keep a tab on the U.S. Dollar vs. Rupee rate.
12. Tr.im
Compressing URLs freakishly quickly (takes current URL from browser and pops it in)
13. To-Do
Large empty yellow pad. I only resort to it (instead of my physical yellow pad on my desk) if I have an overwhelming amount of work.
14. iStat Pro
I find myself looking at this so much. Keeping a tab on all sorts of things.
15. Package tracker
Keeps a tab on where all my deliveries and shipments are. At the moment I have none, so, its not there.
So that's my dashboard. I had a more interesting post than this in mind but I'm really tired today, so I'll post it tomorrow. Its a juicy rant about irritating people.
Azhar Chougle | www.azharc.com
