Creative
Bits Widget Pageant 2005
With the advent of OS X 10.4, people have been introduced to the concept
of widgets as an extra layer of GUI goodness on top of the normal OS.
Freed from the Aqua design constraints , these widgets are allowing people
to alter the interface to fit the purpose and style of the widget. From
the ridiculous (we're looking at you Dancing Homer) to the utterly useful
(WidgetMail) there seems to be a growing momentum to build new funsize
applications which do increasingly cool things in new ways.
So to salute this new sexiness we've decided
to hold a beauty pageant of sorts here on creativebits for the
widgets. Leaving the borrowed hairdryers and bitchy comments
to one side, we want to find out what widget the CB community thinks
is the finest example of design currently in circulation. Unlike
those normal beauty contests, we're not remotely interested if
the widget wants world peace or a career feeding orphans; we're
just after looks. So brains are out and superficial, surface sexiness
is in.....
1. Find a widget that gets you hot under the collar, graphics wise. You
can shamelessly plug your own widget or submit something that makes your
hand clammy everytime you reach for the F12 key. Whatever widget you
think has been planned and executed to perfection, with little finishing
touches that Apple would be proud of.
2. Post a link to it in the comments section of this post. Just a link
will suffice at the moment.
3. After a week , we'll do a poll on the nominated widgets (on Creativebits)
and put up a page featuring the graphic goddesses.
4. The winners get a gold, silver and bronze award for display on their
site . And the warm feeling from knowing that theirs is the hottest
widget in Dashboard Land.
[Update]The contest has closed and the winners
of the sexy widget awards are; in first place ShortStat ,
in second Gmail widget
and in third the Weather widget.
Thanks to all those who voted. The nominations can be viewed here.
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