Above is a cap of the widgets I have on my Dashboard. Every once in a while I notice one of my widgets will disappear for no reason. So I replace it not really thinking anything of it. This has happened a few times over the past seven months. I’ve also noticed my Dashboard has been taking longer to load and update when I lunch it. I had no idea what the problem was. I don’t have that many widgets loading, and although I have a second monitor, I don’t put any on it.
Today I had to move my desk. I don’t mind but I have a lot that needs to move. So when I setup my new station I had to place my second monitor on the other side of my laptop. I configure my monitor placement and this is what I find.
Apparently my missing widgets were being moved to a monitor I never had. After cleaning up all 23 instances of Earth and three gmail replicas there was a noticeable boost in my Dashboard performance, along with more open ram.
Have you noticed widgets disappearing? Drag an external monitor around and see if their hiding.
Tomorrow marks the release of the new Google open source phone OS called android. Gizmodo will be running a live blog on the event. They are running the release with T-Mobile, which is making me worried that I switched to AT&T for an iPhone. Apple, don’t let me down…..Oh Apple, you know I’d never leave you.
I’m not going to lie, this keynote really didn’t do much for me. All I’m really looking forward to is the new iPhone update since the battery life is a joke. Hopefully they deliver on greatly improving that. I’m starting to get sick of the iPod. I guess it’s cool to have multiple colors you can choose from but I feel thats hardly worth announcing. Plus these new vibrant colors don’t look like their going to win over the epileptic….community? (I need a thesaurus…not a good gift idea though.)
I guess it’s good to see they are being more eco-friendly! I’m sticking with my old iPod. If my old iPod is filled with arsenic and mercury, I feel like it has the balls to handle my music. I don’t know how I feel about these new girly man iPods. Thank you Hans, thank you Frans
