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Geek Culture / Question for Mac OS Tiger users

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 16:16
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You know when you add a widget onto the Dashboard how it makes those water-like ripples? Mine does that automatically when I installed Tiger, but my friend's computers won't. Is there an option anywhere to turn that on?

Also, have you noticed how much memory even those simple widgets take up?

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indi
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 16:44
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yes they take up a lot, what kind of mac does your friend have?

it might be a higher end video card effect without trawling google.

then just trawling google i found this article which expands on my theory
http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=255066



an alternative to widgets is Konfabulator

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Phaelax
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 17:00
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I have a 1.67 G4 powerbook and he has the dual 1.4 G4 tower.

thx for finding that article

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indi
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 17:01
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no worries

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John Y
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 19:02
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Your graphics card need to support CoreImage, which is a geforce 5000+ series and the ATI equivilants.

Mac Mini's also don't have the effect


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