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Small and simple desktop reminders
Authored by: kaolgal on Nov 11, '04 02:10:41PM

A creative idea. However, an easier tool to use for this very task is a widget. If you download Konfabulator you can select a widget that puts these "to do" type notes on your desk in a similar but easier way. They are also color coded.



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Small and simple desktop reminders
Authored by: taxi on Nov 12, '04 02:45:16AM

Ugh! Konfabulator was something that looks extremely pretty, but caused my system (a 1.25GHz iMac G4) to behave like, well, crap.

It uses up heaps of resources, both memorywise and processor cycles. The engine itself is rather hungry, and some widgets take up 10Mb or more of RAM.

I've recently come to the conclusion that adding lots of stuff to the system is a Very Bad Thing (tm), and have even turned off mysqld & httpd, and everything else I can. (Having used a friend's powerbook that was snappier than my desktop was embarrasing!)



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Small and simple desktop reminders
Authored by: thaigan on Nov 12, '04 11:49:01AM

Maybe you should try closing all the widgets but the ToDo List. I use Konfabulator and never see much of a performance drain on my 800 Mhz iMac(768 MB)



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