Konfabulator uses?
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Nnamdi Onyeyiri wrote: My guess is its laziness - its much quicker/easier to turn on the computer and the information is there, than having to load up a browser and go get it. And convenience... Leave it there until a weather alert brings your attention to it. Continue to work until the darn thing starts flashing, sending out audible alarms or otherwise identifying itself as a warning. I think it would be more time consuming to have to open up and check a website every 30 minutes during a thunderstorm day. I actually don't have one running, two other guys in my section do, I don't think a 3rd is necessary -- that would be too much. Still handy thing to have. (or you could say I am lazy by relying on their weather warnings while I work hehehe) Plus I don't worry too much, at least once a year the road closes behind me as I escape work just in the nick of time. Twice in the last 12 years I have talked the state police into letting me go through. The choice is letting me go through the valley or sending me over the high mountain pass. And I grew up in northern NM where they close the roads for far heavier weather than the south. I have driven in far worse weather than we have in the south. The real danger is all the locals who forget what ice is since they only see it a half dozen times a year.... _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ah excuses, excuses, excuses. We all know of your weather fetish. And I hope to god that your Southern friends don't rely on "Hey, it is sunny!" weather widgets to warn of tornados and hurricanes. I did once see a Hurricane Warning widget though. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
Paul Watson wrote: And I hope to god that your Southern friends don't rely on "Hey, it is sunny!" weather widgets to warn of tornados and hurricanes. I actually considered writing my own 24/7 weather joke program. Takes the weather and turns it into one of those weather rocks... If the rock is wet, it is raining, if the rock is white, it is snowing, if the rock is swinging back and forth (it's suspended from a string) it is windy. :-D It was mostly to harass the 24/7 weather crowd, some of whom have the radar maps up 24/7 which is waaaaay overkill. I have to ask though.... Is the weather elsewhere really that predictible? We get predictions of general conditions. Such as "20% chance of thunderstorms on Sunday" And even 12 hours in advance it doesn't get better than that. It's not until the storm clouds actually coalesce and can be tracked on radar that they can tell which county to warn, what roads to close for flooding, etc. That gives you less than two hours to get the warnings out. If you are caught finding the latest bug in your code and distracted, you could easily find yourself sleeping at work because all the roads are closed. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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i dont do this via Konfabulator, but the idea is the same. having a CPU usage graph on the second monitor allows me to: a) check if there is some reason why visual studio has stopped responding to my typing. everytime the antivirus updates over the network it hammers my machine into the ground for about 1 minute. while this is happening there is no real point in trying to do anything, so i just sit back, try to relax, and wait for the CPU meter to tell me when i can start trying to type again. b) i can leave visual studio in the background while doing some general reading in firefox, and when the CPU usage returns to sane levels i know that the compilation has stopped, and it is time to go and see if it worked. zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness
You don't need the whole konfabulator system for that though. There are 50 alternatives which are much lighter on resources and which sit in your system tray. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and WebTwoZero. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!
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The Dashboard weather widget is useful to me. It gives a 5-day forcast, plus I can have both the Liverpool and London weather open. So I can gloat to my parents about how good the London microclimate can be :-)
Jonathan Newman blog.nonny.com [^]
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Nnamdi Onyeyiri wrote: its much quicker/easier to turn on the computer and the information is there, than having to load up a browser and go get it. I couldn't agree more! That's why I wrote this[^]. :) /ravi My new year's resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Music | Articles | Freeware | Trips ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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I have used it for some time. Of course, I have the weather module (enjoy at a glance to see what the real world is like, also can tell if it is night or day :) ). My favorite is the "stickies" widget. At this moment I have five stickes (three on one monitor and two on the other) that are my reminders. I have them set to different colors for category and priority. VERY handy! Worth the RAM and CPU! Rocky <>< My Blog[^]
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I'm rather looking forward to the Microsoft one. I can't wait to build some 'Gadgets' to replace some of my call-centre 'wallboard' apps. It'll be great to finally have these available from the desktop without having to launch other applications. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
If you are interested in building .NET Gadgets, you might want to look at this calculator[^] and analog clock. I am still trying to understand if .NET will integrate well into the whole Gadget idea. check out VG.net: www.vgdotnet.com An animated vector graphics system integrated in VS.net
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Here's[^] an non-Konfabulator alternate written by your's truly. Free, of course. I will second Ravi’s app. It works well fairly un-obtrusive. I don’t run it all of the time only when I suspect especially foul weather. Now MP3Pal on the other hand needs a couple of features to make it a fully useful app. :) ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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I'm rather looking forward to the Microsoft one. I can't wait to build some 'Gadgets' to replace some of my call-centre 'wallboard' apps. It'll be great to finally have these available from the desktop without having to launch other applications. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
Michael P Butler wrote: I can't wait to build some 'Gadgets' to replace some of my call-centre 'wallboard' apps. Got any links or resources? Id be interested in this as well. ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
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Michael P Butler wrote: I can't wait to build some 'Gadgets' to replace some of my call-centre 'wallboard' apps. Got any links or resources? Id be interested in this as well. ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.
MicrosoftGadgets.com[^] Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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My thoughts exactly. Maybe they are holed up inside and can't see what the weather is like. :suss: In which case, why would they want to know? :~ Cheers, Vikram.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Maybe they are holed up inside and can't see what the weather is like. As is the case for some aircraft carrier personnel. They can go several weeks, sometimes months without seeing the outside.
"One must learn from the bite of the fire to leave it alone." - Native American Proverb
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MicrosoftGadgets.com[^] Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
That site does not provide much information regarding .NET gadgets. It sounds very generic, and the samples are simple html interfaces. The [Ooey GUI blog](<a href=)[^], by one of the MS developers, may provide more information soon. check out VG.net: www.vgdotnet.com An animated vector graphics system integrated in VS.net