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On 20/05/2005 at 19:52 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: >So I type "London" into the back of it (because Apple has gone UI >crazy and the back of widgets is how you configure them) and am >pleasantly suprised at the massively hot weather that it'll be in >rainy old London. Very surprised. For the next few days, until I >figure out that it is stupid software and showing me the weather for >London, West Virginia. Although not written as hate, Sven-S. Porst's review of Dashboard on his weblog covers the boneheaded, US-centric city lookup in the Weather widget, and also, to my mind, takes pops at: * Dashboard being a crap workaround for Calculator being slow to launch * the UIs all being awful * bugs in adding new widgets * a general failure to consult system preferences * lack of localisation * bloatedness (Clock takes 15% CPU) * and of course security See, here: http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2005/05/x4_dashboard Of course, US-centricity is hardly anything new. The Yellow Pages widget is apparently unable to give you anything outside of the US; Sherlock was always crap if you didn't live in the One True Home of Computing; and guess what? Google's new portal (I'm sorry, personalised home page) wants a zip code for a weather forecast. Great, I'll get back to you when the USPS takes over the Royal Mail, shall I? Even mentioning digital music download services is a bad idea. Hatefully yours, -- :: paul :: historic light cone
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