I should've been more clear -- each Dashboard widget used 15-20MB RAM of real memory. IIRC. This isn't cheap, but OTOH doesn't seem insane to me; Safari can easily use 130 MB of RAM (real memory) w/ just a half-dozen or so web sites open. 'sides, eye candy hath its costs.
It was a little while ago I observed this, though, so I'll stop tacking the IIRC qualifier on everything and defer to ZO on this Q.
I can't answer your Dashboard memory question until tomorrow when I see the guy again... I imagine I would look at Top or the Activity Monitor? I wonder if Dashboard is an app or not.
Will find out asap... unless someone else feels like answering before
One thing I totally forgot to ask to try is the Picture Preview performance. Windows totally kills Mac in this field. A folder full of pics and windows will fly through them in an instant with little previews. Mac (Panther) takes a fvcking lifetime to make the little preview icons. I hope to god this has been resolved. Will find out tomorrow.
I can't answer your Dashboard memory question until tomorrow when I see the guy again... I imagine I would look at Top or the Activity Monitor? I wonder if Dashboard is an app or not.
Will find out asap... unless someone else feels like answering before
One thing I totally forgot to ask to try is the Picture Preview performance. Windows totally kills Mac in this field. A folder full of pics and windows will fly through them in an instant with little previews. Mac (Panther) takes a fvcking lifetime to make the little preview icons. I hope to god this has been resolved. Will find out tomorrow.
I think panther has to genetate thumbnails in each session and does not save them to disc (only stores them in ram). That's why it's long. But when you have a lot of photoshop images whose thumbnails are icons, their previews are instantaneous.
i'd rather have a) an invisible Thumbs_db file (or even visible) b) the sheer speed at which Windows makes the thimbnails. Even on an old crap 700Mhz P3 mobile with WinXP Take 2 a folder of 3mp jpegs zoomed by in seconds. My Macs go to a crawl (100% proc) when it tries to make thumbs
Is the Dashboard memory only when it is open or all the time? I have 768 Ram and can't afford to upgrade (it will be about 300 plus i will be wasting a 512 chip).
Anyway, there are so many other things i want with tiger that even if i disable dashboard, it won't matter. I am assuming that i will still be able to see MenuMeters while i have dashboard on so i can see by that.
Yeah, Windows does a great job with displaying thumbnails. There is nothing wrong with using hidden files to increase speed of tasks.
Um, I personally don't like random files littered everywhere, .DS_Store, Thumbs_DB, or otherwise. On my local drive its one thing, but when sharing/distributing stuff I have to take care to clean up after the OS.
What if your Spotlight index was stored in each directory as a hidden file and when you zipped a folder for a friend it included a hidden index of all your porn and taxes?
Um, I personally don't like random files littered everywhere, .DS_Store, Thumbs_DB, or otherwise. On my local drive its one thing, but when sharing/distributing stuff I have to take care to clean up after the OS.
Is there any automatic way of deleting the .DS files on ejection of my hard drive? And also a way of not showing the Thumbs files on my Mac. I use an external hard drive and it always looks messy.
Does anyone know or have an idea if Dashboard can be activated via Hot Corners in Tiger?
Believe it or not I'm just now discovering the usefulness of Hot Corners and have set it up so top right turns on my screen saver, top left turns on Expose' and I'm hoping with Tiger I can have bottom left enable Dashboard.
you should have at least 2 for expose: one for expose all windows, and one for expose desktop. Dashboard will be the third, and leave the top right alone so you can go to spotlight without worry of activating something by accident.
I am still on Jaguar, and there is one thing that I like about XP that I could not find in OS X yet:
When you send your machine into stand-by/sleep-mode, it locks down the current user's session so you can only resume work when entering your password or loging in as another user.
There is a similar feature when the screensaver is activated, but in XP you can lock the session down by pressing ALT-CTRL-DEL and clicking on the corresponding button.
I am still on Jaguar, and there is one thing that I like about XP that I could not find in OS X yet:
When you send your machine into stand-by/sleep-mode, it locks down the current user's session so you can only resume work when entering your password or loging in as another user.
Panther does this. You can set it to require your password when it wakes from sleep.
Is the Dashboard memory only when it is open or all the time? I have 768 Ram and can't afford to upgrade (it will be about 300 plus i will be wasting a 512 chip).
Anyway, there are so many other things i want with tiger that even if i disable dashboard, it won't matter. I am assuming that i will still be able to see MenuMeters while i have dashboard on so i can see by that.
A friend of mine was running one of the later seeds with only 512mb of ram, and wasn't having any lag with about 3 ir 4 widgets running.
The widgets for weather, calandar and calculator only took up about 24mb combined.
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It was a little while ago I observed this, though, so I'll stop tacking the IIRC qualifier on everything and defer to ZO on this Q.
Will find out asap... unless someone else feels like answering before
One thing I totally forgot to ask to try is the Picture Preview performance. Windows totally kills Mac in this field. A folder full of pics and windows will fly through them in an instant with little previews. Mac (Panther) takes a fvcking lifetime to make the little preview icons. I hope to god this has been resolved. Will find out tomorrow.
Originally posted by ZO
I can't answer your Dashboard memory question until tomorrow when I see the guy again... I imagine I would look at Top or the Activity Monitor? I wonder if Dashboard is an app or not.
Will find out asap... unless someone else feels like answering before
One thing I totally forgot to ask to try is the Picture Preview performance. Windows totally kills Mac in this field. A folder full of pics and windows will fly through them in an instant with little previews. Mac (Panther) takes a fvcking lifetime to make the little preview icons. I hope to god this has been resolved. Will find out tomorrow.
I think panther has to genetate thumbnails in each session and does not save them to disc (only stores them in ram). That's why it's long. But when you have a lot of photoshop images whose thumbnails are icons, their previews are instantaneous.
adam1185, do you have a programmable GPU ?
Originally posted by french macuser
adam1185, do you have a programmable GPU ?
Uhmm, I have a geforce go 5200, and that's about all I know.
Anyway, there are so many other things i want with tiger that even if i disable dashboard, it won't matter. I am assuming that i will still be able to see MenuMeters while i have dashboard on so i can see by that.
Originally posted by MPMoriarty
Yeah, Windows does a great job with displaying thumbnails. There is nothing wrong with using hidden files to increase speed of tasks.
Um, I personally don't like random files littered everywhere, .DS_Store, Thumbs_DB, or otherwise. On my local drive its one thing, but when sharing/distributing stuff I have to take care to clean up after the OS.
What if your Spotlight index was stored in each directory as a hidden file and when you zipped a folder for a friend it included a hidden index of all your porn and taxes?
Originally posted by Xool
Um, I personally don't like random files littered everywhere, .DS_Store, Thumbs_DB, or otherwise. On my local drive its one thing, but when sharing/distributing stuff I have to take care to clean up after the OS.
Is there any automatic way of deleting the .DS files on ejection of my hard drive? And also a way of not showing the Thumbs files on my Mac. I use an external hard drive and it always looks messy.
Believe it or not I'm just now discovering the usefulness of Hot Corners and have set it up so top right turns on my screen saver, top left turns on Expose' and I'm hoping with Tiger I can have bottom left enable Dashboard.
Originally posted by BriJQ84
Does anyone know or have an idea if Dashboard can be activated via Hot Corners in Tiger?
It can.
When you send your machine into stand-by/sleep-mode, it locks down the current user's session so you can only resume work when entering your password or loging in as another user.
There is a similar feature when the screensaver is activated, but in XP you can lock the session down by pressing ALT-CTRL-DEL and clicking on the corresponding button.
Originally posted by RolandG
I am still on Jaguar, and there is one thing that I like about XP that I could not find in OS X yet:
When you send your machine into stand-by/sleep-mode, it locks down the current user's session so you can only resume work when entering your password or loging in as another user.
Panther does this. You can set it to require your password when it wakes from sleep.
Originally posted by Jwink3101
Is the Dashboard memory only when it is open or all the time? I have 768 Ram and can't afford to upgrade (it will be about 300 plus i will be wasting a 512 chip).
Anyway, there are so many other things i want with tiger that even if i disable dashboard, it won't matter. I am assuming that i will still be able to see MenuMeters while i have dashboard on so i can see by that.
A friend of mine was running one of the later seeds with only 512mb of ram, and wasn't having any lag with about 3 ir 4 widgets running.
The widgets for weather, calandar and calculator only took up about 24mb combined.
so i wouldn't worry if i were you.
Originally posted by ic1male
Does it ship with Quicktime 7 then? Or is that a downloadable component later on?
qt7 is listed here so if you get tiger you'll have qt7.
i guess a version for panther or even jaguar will be offered as a download the day tiger is released.
Originally posted by r3dx0r
is it possible to display only unread/new rss feeds in safari or flag certain feed items ?
in the menu bar with bookmarks, new RSS news appears in parentheses, fro example - CNN (3) -
If you click on it, a new sheet appears and you have all the items. You can give colors to new RSS items in the RSS sheet.