Comments on: YAMT, Yet Another Mac Tip

By: bye bye dashboard (updated) at kobak pont org

bye bye dashboard (updated) at kobak pont org — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:50:24 +0000

[...] Ennek ellenÃ©re igazÃ¡bÃ³ tÃ¶k felesleges, hogy minden rendszerindÃtÃ¡skor betÃ¶ltsÃ¶n, s Ã¡llandÃ³an ott figyeljen az aktÃv programok kÃ¶zÃ¶tt. Ahogy az rss-eimet olvastam talÃ¡ltam rÃ¡ Paul Stamatiou mai postjÃ¡ra. Å Ãr a bye bye dashboard programrÃ³l. Ez a kis program (44k) hivatott ellÃ¡tni a feladatot, hogy kikapcsolja a dashboard indÃtÃ¡sÃ¡t. RÃ¡adÃ¡sul universal binary. MÃ©g nem prÃ³bÃ¡ltam, de szerintem teszek vele egy prÃ³bÃ¡t. [...]

By: Peter Filias

Peter Filias — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:35:32 +0000

OnyX also lets you disable Dashboard, among other things. Kind of like TweakUI for the Mac.

OnyX 1.6.9

Nice site, Paul. I take it you’re Greek?

By: Paul Bersch

Paul Bersch — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:40:34 +0000

There’s a simpler way to do this: just type
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
in a Terminal window to disable Dashboard.

Somehow Dashboard widgets never quite lived up to the widgets I used with Konfabulator, but in the end it’s all about the resource usage; I need every ounce of power out of my 12′ Powerbook.

By: Anshul Jain

Anshul Jain — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:19:29 +0000

Hi Paul. I saw on k2.infiity.com that you had made a deviance theme for k2. I was wondering whether thats still available or scrapped.

By: fiend

fiend — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:44:07 +0000

In any computer/OS, you should have at least the option of disabling everything, if you want to do any job on the computer you already have way to many distractions (mail/im’s/system popups) and resource hogs (everything else you have running that’s not needed at that point), hell if you need photoshop you open photoshop…you don’t let it run all day ^_^

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:07:41 +0000

Nice tip! I just upgraded to Tiger on my 450 Mhz PowerMac G4, and believe me, Dashboard needed to go! TinkerTool does the trick too, and comes along with a whole lot of other great Mac OS X tweaks.

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5721

By: Justin Ruckman

Justin Ruckman — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 04:41:41 +0000

Chad, mondoDock is cool, I’ve never seen that before. Though it’s more likely i’ll be installing the disabler — i’ve never really been able to find a decent use for the dashboard.

By: Chad Crowell

Chad Crowell — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:58:20 +0000

Nice one Paul. I researched this, as a recent switcher, when I had decided that there are way too many weather and stock things on the web to require system resources for them as well.

What I found is that the dashboard doesn’t use any resources, until you click on it the first time and it loads widgets. For this reason, I never installed a disabler.

Then I found mondoDock, which is the only one I use, and I really love having it.