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No offense Gaucho but this software sucks!

So as I was saying about widgets pretty much sucking here is more fuel for the fire… http://www.gauchosoft.com/Software/Dash%20Monitors/ I found this companies Dash Monitors widget on the apple website (one of the top ones actually). Get this… I am on a dual 2.0 G5 and when I run that widget it uses 10-15% of my [...]

Tiger Tip #2 – Widgets are cool..but not THAT cool

According to our good friend Activity Monitor AKA “Visual top” widgets take waste a crapload of RAM. I am sure we are going to hear a whole ton about this in the future but here is run down of how much RAM my current widgets are taking up. click to enlarge My advice is to [...]

Tiger Tip #1 – Dashboard Refresh

I am sure it is documented somewhere but if you are having issues with a widget not being up to date on your dashboard you can press Apple + R and the widget that you have selected will reload, just as a webpage would. Makes sense since that is really what widgets are anyways right? [...]

Tiger Tips

I am going to be posting a series of Tiger Tips as I find them. They will be filed under the Tiger Tips category for your easy viewing pleasure Enjoy!