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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: bakalite on May 01, '05 02:34:30AM

Has anyone figured out a way to quit Dashboard? I really don't need the bloat, and 99% of the stuff in Dashboard is also available on the web. My browser is usually open...

dictionary, wikkipedia, flight info, package tracking, weather, dumm jokes, yellow pages, etc. etc.

When they got rid of the DA's I was bummed at first, but then I realized that anything that can be a DA, can also be an app, so why bother with two categories. We already have a dock, and we already have small apps. Why bother with some convoluted nonsense?



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Quitting Dashboard
Authored by: delGrey on May 01, '05 11:00:00AM

Can't you just shutdown the various widgets? They are after all just a series of mini apps.



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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: Areh on May 01, '05 11:13:25AM

Sorry, I haven't but widgets don't seem to take up any CPU time when inactive. I wonder if Dashboard does. Overall, Tiger is much more efficient in its CPU/memory managment than Panther was... so it may at least not cost you much if anything.



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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: enderai on May 01, '05 05:05:19PM

Just drag it out of the dock, disable the hotkey, and your set. Dashboard only starts up the first time you activate it.



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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: osxpounder on May 02, '05 04:47:15PM

Delete my set ... of what? What set are you telling us to delete?

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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: wrecklass on May 02, '05 04:53:53PM

Heh, that's funny. He means "Delete the Dashboard Icon from your Dock, Disable the Dashboard Hotkey (F12) and then 'you will be all set'"

Grammar on the web.



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Quittting Dashboard
Authored by: UnknownPPC on Jun 21, '05 12:16:53AM
You can use a prefpane called DashOnOff it is here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18261

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