![]() As the number of widgets grows, it’ll just get clumsier. And the way you add new widgets to your Dashboard-clicking on a rotating X symbol at the bottom of the screen to reveal a strip menu of available widgets-is clumsy. ![]() The Calendar widget doesn’t integrate with Apple’s iCal. However, some of Apple’s widgets are not as useful as they could be. The Dictionary widget is perfect, letting me look up a word quickly without launching the new Dictionary application. Konfabulator, I like the idea of small, single-purpose application widgets. If you deal with an avalanche of files, be they Word documents, images, or whatever, Spotlight alone will make upgrading to Tiger worthwhile. In a year, I think it will be seen as the most important featureĪdded to OS X. The free version protects up to 3 devices and includes remote management and advanced parental controls making it a great option for families. ![]() Version 2 is in public beta and supports 10.4, 10.5, and 10.6. Version 1.1.1 supports OS X 10.4 and 10.5 but is not compatible with 10.6. Apple and software vendors need to find a fix for that, so we can truly uncover all the data on our Macs. Another alternative is ClamXav, a free Mac OS X antivirus application based on the open source ClamAV program. It won’t find e-mail messages, for example, in programs (such as Entourage) that save messages as individual files. However, Spotlight also has a major limitation: at this point, it works only on a file-by-file basis.
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