I have a love/hate relationship with Dashboard widgets.

I think the basic idea is pretty cool. I hate the fact that Apple forces you to use them in a separate space from the rest of your desktop. Widgest overlaid on my desktop would be useful to me. Widgets that I have to stop working in order to use are not so useful. Fortunately there’s a program called Amnesty which solves this problem. I’ll write about Amnesty in another post.

I find most widgets to be toys… but once in a while there’s a really useful one, like AppUpdate.AppUpdate does for all your applications what Software Update does for your Apple software. It scans for applications and then compares the versions it finds with the most recent versions listed by various services like VersionTracker, and returns to you a list with hyperlinks of applications that need to be updated. It’s a very handy way to try to make sure you’ve got the latest, greatest version of whatever software you rely on.

Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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