Chris Pirillo » desktop-widgets http://chris.pirillo.com News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:06:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © chris@pirillo.com () chris@pirillo.com() Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. chris@pirillo.com No no http://chris.pirillo.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgChris Pirillohttp://chris.pirillo.com 144 144 How to Fix Your Desktop Widgetshttp://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-fix-your-desktop-widgets/ http://chris.pirillo.com/how-to-fix-your-desktop-widgets/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:39:25 +0000 Chris http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/20/how-to-fix-your-desktop-widgets/ How to Fix Your Desktop Widgets is a post from Chris Pirillo

Having problems with your widgets? Ben was as well, and he found out how to fix those little buggers:

I have been another fairly recent convert of going over to OS X full time and it was around the same time you went Mac Pro on everyone. My laptop had came downgraded with Vista and I upgraded back to XP which made me happy for awhile but eventually I felt the need to go to using OSX after the place I worked needed me to live in an OS X world more and more (glitches in Leopard ended up sending me over the top). I like Leopard, I really do and that is what I run but there are underlying issues with it that has broken a lot of Tiger applications out there. I do not know if the broken programs come from bad programmers or good ones but I wish I knew if Apple has changed documented API’s that are not suppose to change (that would mean I could then blame Apple).

Apple Widgets have been breaking for a lot of people – and from what I read, very few know where to go to fix it. I found a forum that finally addressed the issue and I think a lot more people need to know about this solution that worked for me. There are multiple things that can break and corrupt files, including enabling .Mac syncing – but also if you enable your parental controls, you risk breaking your widgets! My issue more than likely was corrupted files (and simply deleting them resolves the problem). This solution came from Paul Burd.

I only have one widget running – the weather one, and even that sits in the upper left hand corner of my second monitor all the time (I enabled Developer Mode for the Dashboard so I could drag widgets onto the desktop).

]]> How to Fix Your Desktop Widgets is a post from Chris Pirillo

Having problems with your widgets? Ben was as well, and he found out how to fix those little buggers:

I have been another fairly recent convert of going over to OS X full time and it was around the same time you went Mac Pro on everyone. My laptop had came downgraded with Vista and I upgraded back to XP which made me happy for awhile but eventually I felt the need to go to using OSX after the place I worked needed me to live in an OS X world more and more (glitches in Leopard ended up sending me over the top). I like Leopard, I really do and that is what I run but there are underlying issues with it that has broken a lot of Tiger applications out there. I do not know if the broken programs come from bad programmers or good ones but I wish I knew if Apple has changed documented API’s that are not suppose to change (that would mean I could then blame Apple).

Apple Widgets have been breaking for a lot of people – and from what I read, very few know where to go to fix it. I found a forum that finally addressed the issue and I think a lot more people need to know about this solution that worked for me. There are multiple things that can break and corrupt files, including enabling .Mac syncing – but also if you enable your parental controls, you risk breaking your widgets! My issue more than likely was corrupted files (and simply deleting them resolves the problem). This solution came from Paul Burd.

I only have one widget running – the weather one, and even that sits in the upper left hand corner of my second monitor all the time (I enabled Developer Mode for the Dashboard so I could drag widgets onto the desktop).

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