[OT] Mac Office Software

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:03:11PM +0200, Robin Berjon wrote:
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:56, Peter Corlett wrote:
> >I've found it useful *solely* as a hotkey to get a dictionary  
> >search tool up. Dashboard is much less useful if you have more than  
> >one widget.
> 
> The Cmd-Shift-D thingie isn't too bad for that either. Or you could  
> just leave Dictionary open, I haven't tried but I wouldn't be shocked  
> if it burnt less memory than Dashboard. A bunch of those widgets are  
> actually useful, but I wish they were available as regular apps,  
> created with some HTML and script ? I find that it would be a lot  
> more usable.

Why not just keep them open in a tab of your web browser?  You can often
get most of the functionality that way...

-Dom