Feed me widgets
I've been downloading and trying out several dashboard widgets for Mac OS X Tiger and one of the most useful has been Hula girl.
Just kidding (altho' early on it was the number 3 download in the dashboard category! Scary stuff). Andrew pointed me to one called *NIX Manual; it allows you view UNIX man pages as a dashboard widget. You can customise the color scheme and font sizes. Very nice. No more paging up and down using man in the terminal!
Another nice one is the wikipedia widget, which allows you to search and view articles on wikipedia complete with pictures and in multiple languages. You can even resize the widget for those wide articles.
If you're annoyed at dashboard's weather widget because it only adds the city name that's set in your "Date and Time" System Preferences while defaulting to USA for the country, join the club! Meanwhile, you can get a list of countries for a city by typing in the city name and pressing enter in the info panel for the weather widget. If you know what country the city is in, type in something like "Melbourne, Australia" and press enter. For the geeks out there, use a formatted string: "CountryCode;RegionCode;CityName" e.g. "AU;VT;Melbourne" without the need for enter.
