What are Widgets?

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21/06/2005, 4:46 PM
Troy.McClure

What are Widgets?

'Widgets' were released with the new Mac OS a few weeks ago. Can anyone please explain to me what they are and what their benefit is? :confused: :o
21/06/2005, 4:55 PM
Drumcondra Red

A widget is actually in the bottom of a can, just guinness now afaik, too keep the fiz in, on Macs though I think its like an animation thing for your desktop!
21/06/2005, 5:15 PM
liam88

Cut one out of a Guinesws can at a music festival once :D :D
21/06/2005, 5:15 PM
jofyisgod

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Originally Posted by Drumcondra Red

A widget is actually in the bottom of a can, just guinness now afaik

I thought the same. They're the rattling sound when you've just finished the can!
21/06/2005, 5:48 PM
paul_oshea

it depends what context cos they are lots of different widgets.
22/06/2005, 7:46 AM
Peadar

Mac now has a "Dashboard" which contains widgets.
Each widget allows you access to some sort of information.
If you think in a car, the speedometer would be a widget, the rev counter would be a widget and so on.
On your Mac dashboard you could have a widget telling you local weather, share prices, news headlines etc.
You can develop widgets for you own needs.
Kinda cool but may not be more than a boys toy for most people.
22/06/2005, 7:49 AM
Macy

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Originally Posted by Drumcondra Red

A widget is actually in the bottom of a can, just guinness now afaik, too keep the fiz in, on Macs though I think its like an animation thing for your desktop!

Think interbrew were one of the first to use them. Certainly the UK Bitters (proper creamy ones from the North) were the first I remember having them... :)
22/06/2005, 9:19 AM
Dawn_Run

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Originally Posted by Peadar

Mac now has a "Dashboard" which contains widgets.
Each widget allows you access to some sort of information.
If you think in a car, the speedometer would be a widget, the rev counter would be a widget and so on.
On your Mac dashboard you could have a widget telling you local weather, share prices, news headlines etc.
You can develop widgets for you own needs.
Kinda cool but may not be more than a boys toy for most people.

Now that we know what a widget is in MAC world, can anyone tell me how the beer widget thingy works?? And whats the idea behind the 'floating widget' (guinness cans) as opposed to the fixed widget (carlsberg glasses). Just curious
22/06/2005, 9:22 AM
pete

I thought the widget in beer cans held the head. When pour the beer the widget gets triggered it lack of pressure so head pours out on top? Obviously useful for stout but usually no use for lager.
22/06/2005, 9:26 AM
Peadar

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Originally Posted by Dawn_Run

can anyone tell me how the beer widget thingy works?? And whats the idea behind the 'floating widget' (guinness cans)

The answer is here...

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Originally Posted by Dawn_Run

the fixed widget (carlsberg glasses).

That's not a widget.
It's simply an etching and the glasses are known as "nucleated glasses."
They only work when a dry glass is filled with draught beer.
22/06/2005, 9:31 AM
Peadar

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Originally Posted by Macy

Think interbrew were one of the first to use them.

It would appear that Guinness have the patent.
See here...
22/06/2005, 9:31 AM
noby

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Originally Posted by Dawn_Run

Now that we know what a widget is in MAC world, can anyone tell me how the beer widget thingy works??

Stouts etc. with creamy heads (Guinness etc.) have a nitro/co2 mix gas.The nitro produces smaller bubbles, hence the head.
The widget has nitro and a small amount of the beer in it. It stays in as the beer/CO2 in the can is at a higher pressure. When you open the can, the pressure is released and the nitro escapes the widget into the beer.

I don't know the difference between the floating/fixed ones though.

It was voted one of the best inventions of the last century too!
22/06/2005, 9:32 AM
Dawn_Run

Cheers Pa, a well of knowledge you are. Must ask the barman in the local for a nucleated glass next time. See what kind of reaction i get :p
22/06/2005, 9:36 AM
Peadar

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Originally Posted by Dawn_Run

Must ask the barman in the local for a nucleated glass next time.

There's nice Heineken ones around at the moment.
Slightly shorter and wider than the traditional "Tulip" glass.
It's nucleated and a nice fit in my hand.
22/06/2005, 9:39 AM
paul_oshea

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Must ask the barman in the local for a nucleated glass next time

LOL, i can imagine the kind of response you would get, i can also actually imagine pa asking for a nucleated glass for his fresh pint of ale from the innkeeper
22/06/2005, 9:41 AM
paul_oshea

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Slightly shorter and wider than the traditional "Tulip" glass.

very true and if you are a proper man like me and drink heineken export ( 5.2% ) you should only be allowed to use that class, it shouldnt be given to pansies to drink out of, quality, even noticed for those nights when you are so locked you keep dropping pints, it stays in the hand easier.
22/06/2005, 9:44 AM
paul_oshea

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Cheers Pa, a well of knowledge you are

you know a well is always an (empty) hollow, so thats probably a precise explanation of pa's knowledge and the inside of his head also.
22/06/2005, 9:50 AM
Troy.McClure

Quote:

Originally Posted by Peadar

Mac now has a "Dashboard" which contains widgets.
Each widget allows you access to some sort of information.
If you think in a car, the speedometer would be a widget, the rev counter would be a widget and so on.
On your Mac dashboard you could have a widget telling you local weather, share prices, news headlines etc.
You can develop widgets for you own needs.
Kinda cool but may not be more than a boys toy for most people.

So does that mean that you have to be on the internet to use them?
22/06/2005, 9:55 AM
paul_oshea

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So does that mean that you have to be on the internet to use them?

eh ya, for the ones peadar mentioned, how do you think it would work without being connected? the news, share prices, weather details all have to come from somewhere.

its not a stupid question btw, there are no stupid questions just stupid people.
22/06/2005, 10:09 AM
Peadar

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Originally Posted by Troy.McClure

So does that mean that you have to be on the internet to use them?

Only if the input for your widget is Internet based.
ie. You could have one that monitors the CPU usage of your machine.
You wouldn't need to be connected to the Internet for that.

There must be information out there from Apple about this? :confused:
Have you contacted them?

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