![]() ![]() Some are quite useful, and others are fun. What’s predictable is that there are so many of them that making an informed choice could take a week. The “novelty widget” approach is rapidly becoming notorious for providing consumers with a lot of one-trick wonders that don’t do much, or do it well. Ironically, MacBook users are likely to be the most highly critical of obsessive/compulsive widget production. Most MacBook users are Apple fans, and it’s not like they don’t have access to a lot of useful built-in and easily available stuff already. ![]() This is a pretty tough consumer base to impress, and the widget makers risk being considered banal, not to say superfluous, if their widgets aren’t up to scratch.Īpple has also put in a quality control in the form of their Staff Picks for widget downloads of both freeware and demos. This level of scrutiny is good practice, because it also screens for garbage. ![]() ![]() Checkup 2.7.1 An app which checks and monitors the CPU, memory network adapters and disk drives.Some of the makers of the widgets are Apple-specific, too, another quality control, and evidently being emphasized selectively.Ī few samples of widgets which are indicative of the benchmarks: Apparently some widget makers have got that message, and are concentrating on “useful” as opposed to “cute”. Made by App4mac Inc, and comes with graphic indicators and a screen which looks like a sound recording screen. Things like this are useful for portable systems, which can get neurotic with heavy usage and when the memory gets highly loaded. ![]()
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