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http://riussi.humppapapat.net [Humppa-Riussi] I found this tip on how to disable the Dashboard on OS X Tiger. If you have lots of widgets installed on your dashboard they consume quite a big...

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Macworld.comhttp://www.macworld.com [Macworld.com] Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Disable Dashboard: For instance, if you run a lab of Macs in a school, you may not want the students wasting all their work time on the Asteroids video game widget or watching the (I am not making this up) Goblet of Fire movie release date countdown Widget. If you’d like to disable Dashboard, for either RAM usage or other reasons, here’s how to do it.

http://www.internet-nexus.com [Internet-nexus.com] Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus: With up to four programmable buttons, Mighty Mouse makes it easy to access key features of Tiger with the side buttons and Scroll Ball providing quick, one-click access to Spotlight, Dashboard and Exposé.So I'm ecstatic that Apple finally created a multi-button mouse. I'll need to test it before I form an opinion of the thing, but the name .

http://www.red-sweater.com [Red-sweater.com] Red Sweater Blog - MacBook Pro Noise: I Believe in Miracles: From what you explained, I’d probably say that there is no difference between opening the movie in QuickTime and in the dashboard widget, except that the dashboard widget may continue to play the movie while the dashboard is hidden and QuickTime player will not. Also it seems that connecting a USB device, or interacting with the built-in camera, somehow change the state of something on the motherboard, like for instance the system bus speed, which in turn remove the noise.

Digg.comhttp://digg.com [Digg.com] Bye Bye Dashboard.: Often times when I invoke the Dashboard (on a G5, mind you), it freezes up for a second while everything is zooming past when I have several widgets that want to use my network connection to get information. If Dashboard had a background/cron process to have all of the widgets refresh periodically even when not invoked, I would love it.

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