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Stattoo 1.5

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Digital statistics on your desktop. Shareware ($12.95)

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Panic, Inc.

Stattoo "tattoos" digital statistics right on your desktop picture: out of the way, but always handy. It takes this useful digital info, packages it up in cute little capsules, and beautifully blends them in with your desktop picture. For the first time, you can easily check information such as the time, temperature, last few e-mails received, battery power, and much more, by simply glancing at your desktop.

What's New

Version 1.5:

Now a Universal Binary for Intel native speed

Stattoo now requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Added an RSS/Atom Feed capsule
Added support for GMail servers in the mail capsule
Can now adjust brightness of red, green, and blue independently
Now uses graphics hardware acceleration to lighten CPU load when rendering
Added better detection of Apple Mail status changes
Added support for iCal's birthday calendar
Added a preference for "Activation Length"
Now supports backgrounds set from iPhoto 5
iCal capsule no longer displays escape character ('') for commas
Fixed issue with iCal to-do's not showing up on some Tiger releases
Correctly caches desktops with multiple displays
Fixed "add/remove capsules" window showing blank for some users
Fixed a bug that caused pop account to be locked by while mail capsule updated
Fixed a bug that caused Stattoo to forget it's window position
Fixed a crash that happened when mail capsule looked in non-Inbox folders
Fixed a bug in Tiger that caused iCal module to show "No Calendars"
All-day events now stay on a calendar capsule until the end of the day

Version 1.5:

Now a Universal Binary for Intel native speed

Stattoo now requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

Added an RSS/Atom Feed capsule
Added support for GMail servers in the mail capsule
Can now adjust brightness of red, green, and blue independently
Now uses graphics hardware acceleration to lighten CPU load when rendering
Added more...

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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ver. 1.x:

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+99

Rob.h commented on 06 Oct 2011

Would love for this to work with the new iCal.

[Version 1.5]

+12

Blaze commented on 16 Feb 2010

The iCal capsule doesn't work anymore.. (The weather capsule works just fine, though..)

[Version 1.5]

cpineiro51 reviewed on 19 Sep 2008

Love it. It's almost like having a Windows task bar without Windows. It's nice to keep all your info in one place.

[Version 1.5]

colourgravity reviewed on 08 Dec 2006

Love it. Just what I've been looking for to keep my to-dos constantly visible but unobtrusive, and remind me of up-coming deadlines. Nice way of displaying the current track in iTunes, too.

The only feature missing for me is the ability to run Stattoo without a dock icon.

[Version 1.5]

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Jun 2005

not flaming, just curious. How is this different to dashboard?

[Version 1.2]

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Anonymous commented on 22 Jun 2005

Stattoo is permanently on the desktop. It's a bar on the background. And it's really 5 or 6 separate things you can put on a recessed "bar" on your desktop.

Dashboard you have a variety of widgets (you can mix and match), but it only shows when you bring it up. Dashboard is more expandable, as widgets are really just mini javascript applications.

Download a copy and have a look. I thought Stattoo was kinda neat, but not enough to spend $13. Though I do like Panic's apps.. I have licensed copies of Transmit and Unison.

pluto198 replied on 13 Apr 2006

I'm pretty sure Statoo 1.0 was released before Dashboard.

As I understand it, Statoo displays the "capsules" on your desktop all of the time, where Dashboard only displays your "widgets" when a hotkey is pressed.

stuartea replied on 03 Dec 2006

Unlike Dashboard, there is no need to press F12 and on slower machine to load it, Dashboard lag is a problem when you don't have the latest Macs.

Anonymous reviewed on 04 May 2005

please provide ratings in the itunes module. i would most definitely buy then. keep up the great work!

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 03 Mar 2005

I looked at Konfab. but couldn't find anything for my very basic needs - then I decided to check out Stattoo. Problem solved....I just wish the hot key would work but no problem.

Quite versatile for my needs and very stable up to now. Good job.

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 19 Feb 2005

would be great if you can control some of the things you see- for example itunes will be great and if there is an option to stay always on top of every program.

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 25 Sep 2004

Installed Fine. Started asking for Audion... Clicked cancel and then the program continue loading normally. However, the app still doesn't work properly with iTunes... and crashed 3 times while I was moving other tattos around. I really want to like this app but when many other products do similar things... it's hard. I think panic would be well advised to make an update to transmit and implement some new features to a stale application.

[Version 1.1]

Anonymous reviewed on 24 Sep 2004

in the audio panel on the preferences, it pops up with a dialog asking where Audion 3 is because it can't be found, Since I haven't got Audion 3 on my computer I clicked cancel, but the dialog appeared again and again. This is a bit annoying.

[Version 1.1]

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