Dashboard Under Utilised

Just rebooted following the new Security upgrade and watched as a sorry three widgets got auto loaded during the startup. I only have iCliplite, world clock and a backpack widget loading by default and I have to admit that I rarely use any of them.

Now Dashboard should be cool but is there something about the widgets being hidden that prevents people from using them often. I know there are some hacks to bring them out of their "hidden" layer but should Apple re-engineer Dashboard to make them more usable?

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Scoble Knows Something!

Speaking of Apple, they are readying a dizzying amount of new products. I wish I could camp out at an Apple store during the World Wide Developer Conference on August 7th. I wish I could say more, but that’d get me sued by Steve Jobs and I don’t need that kind of heck right now.

Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger » McLaws is right on Windows Vista ship date

Tucked right at the end of yet another damming piece about Vista delays is this little innocuous gem from the honorable Mr Scoble. Now as if I wasn't already fired up about the WWDC next week this has pushed me over the edge!

I've every respect for Scoble and it looks like he is privy to some informaton that we are not and I've no reason not to believe him.

Let the rumour mill go into overdrive for this last week.

6 days and counting.......

Update: He's at it again. See this from his latest post.

Huh? I believe Vista DOES make our computing lives easier. The desktop search features are a huge advance. The multimedia capabilities are WORLDS ahead of anything else I’ve used. And the Tablet PC, Speech Recognition, and Media Center stuff that’s in there is WORLDS ahead of Apple. Although watch Apple in a week. Hint hint.

Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger » Looking at Vista

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iPhone Rumours Reaching Fever Pitch

My favourite conceptual device....

You never know!

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I Want One!

A German company has developed a high-end in-car system based on an Apple iMac G5, whose entire hardware in turn is integrated into the 17-inch monitor that is only 5 centimeters thick

iMac Your Car

Now this sort of blows away all the mac mini car installs! Imagine a car based iMac ! I wonder if they've developed any special software/interfaces?

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2TB Raid5 in a G5

Then I found it, the G5Jive It's a simple little metal chassis that holds three drives and sits in the empty space in front of the fans INSIDE my G5. It takes a little bit of reconfiguring the power cables, and you have to remove the optical drive to install it, but once it's in, it's perfect. It runs off the power supply already going into the G5, so no big bricks in the wall, and everything is hidden away, inside the computer. Combine that with the extra drive space in the G5 next to the boot drive, and I've got 4 empty slots, ready for drives. Plus it was cheaper than any external enclosure I found, with our without the RAID controller. $80. Lovely (obviously this only works for you if you've got a G5, but I do, so... Lovely.)

Treemeat: Text: I got 98 problems, but lack of space ain't one.

Great piece about installing an internal RAID 5 array in a PowerMac G5. If you've seen the screencast about the firewire enclosure this is the next step up. More expensive but gives you the benefit of RAID 5 so no worries about any of the disks crashing as you could rebuild a disk nad recreate your data quite easily.

Ah well, perhaps when my 1TB JBOD array fills up I could consider this!

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