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Konfabulator - A tool that can do nearly anything...
Konfabulator is a fantastic technology with lots of potential. Right now the landscape is blotted with fairly useless eyecandy type Widgets, or simply reproductions of other applications. I suspect this will change soon and we will really start to see some very useful and unique Widgets showing up soon.
Konfabulator v.1.0 had a horrible memory leak to it, but it has since been fixed in v1.0.2 as far as I can tell in my testing. Here's a tip I picked up that I use when I run Konfabulator. The menubar menu is not required to run Konfabulator and for me its just another item in my crowded menubar. I have lots if menuabr items that are essential and I prefer to limit these items to only the essentials so I like to get rid of the Konfabulator menubar item. You can still launch any Widget by simply double-clicking the Widget itself - assuming you have previously started Konfabulator. Here's a short shell script I picked up that will launch Konfabulator and then remove the menubar item, leaving Konfabulator running and available for Widgets.
there is also an Applescript version I found but have not tried it myself.
Konfabulator - A tool that can do nearly anything...
Apparently the above technique no longer works in Konfabulator 1.0.2. If you quit the menu you are unable to launch any widgets. Anyone have a workaround?
The reason this doesn't work...
The reason this doesn't work anymore, as I'm sure you're aware, was that the nag window that comes up with an unregistered version of Konfabulator was a child of the menu extra process. If you kill the menubar item, the nag window is also killed. This script was originally callled "Konfabulator Killer" and was specifically designed for those who wanted to pirate Konfabulator without paying for it. |
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