Dashboard KickStart for Mac

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• Cancels out Spotlight Menu...

  musicworks1_dotmacJanuary 24, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I was looking forward to using this, and after installing it, it does what it advertises--gives the Dashboard a "kick start" so that you have no delay in using your widgets in OS X Tiger. However, after using it for a day, i discovered that I could not access Spotlight either by clicking on the menu or by using the Cmd-spacebar shortcut. I could access the features by using the Spotlight field at the top of Finder windows. I tried removing the com.apple.spotlight.plist file to the desktop to see if that was corrupt, but no change. After some sleuthing, I realized that Dashboard KickStart was the last thing installed before the problem showed up. I opened the app, turned off the start-up at login option, quit the application and re-started the machine--the problem with Spotlight was gone. Alas, I'll have to wait until that conflict is dealt with before trying again. A great product with this one flaw. I'm sorry to have to write this--can't recommend it right now.

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• Does exactly what it needs to do

  Caesar.MacOctober 2, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />This application is just what I needed - because the Dashboard loads slow and the first time I use it it actually slows me down instead of helping me work faster. to neilio: the name might be almost the same, but this application does NOT do excactly the same: the main difference is that it also starts the Dashboard as soon as your Dock is killed. This is important for me, because there are still a lot of installers that do this. Also, it sets itself as a Login-item if you want to.

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