TELMAH  ok, so i actually cant see myself payig 20 bucks, but i'm trying, trying...

besides, i know the things i waste money on....20 dollars shouldnt sound as high as it does  
(Version 3.0)

TELMAH  this is also great if you have to watch educational videos or anything for work and want to be able to take notes at the same time (and still be able to watch full screen and not use two screens)

if you're trying, try on a few different backgrounds because it works really differently depending on whats behind it  
(Version 2.1)

TELMAH  I took a suggestion and pulled out 6th season buffy (oddly, I own one season of buffy and it's the sixth), and started playing

I wouldn't use this for general watching, because very quickly, I just ended up watching buffy normally

but this is great for computer watching in general because if something comes up, you don't HAVE to stop your movie

so when I couldn't remember something about backplot, I made the screen more transparent and looked up what I wanted to on wikipedia, while watching

or when a little beep sounded letting me know I had new mail, I could make the screen more transparent and check to see if it was important

This is great for multi-slacking or for watching something where the action scenes go on for twenty minutes (and they aren't really worth watching) or where there's a good movie but some painfully slow minutes of bad dialogue  
(Version 2.1)

TELMAH  eat your way to the top of the food chain? for kids?

whatever happened to killing or sliming aliens?  
(Version 1.0.1)

TELMAH  I am contacting the developer off-site, but I did want to clear something up. I was not trying to use virtual dashboard with any widget that wasn't in the main folder. All of my widgets that run regularly are in the main folder.

Having a widget in a different folder and not having run it is just like downloading a widget to your desktop, uncompressing it and not yet installing it and this shouldn't interfere with any program of this type should you choose to do the same. As I said in my earlier review, this was a workaround I created having not found a product like this.  
(Version 1.3.2)

TELMAH  I was really excited about this and prepared to pay had it worked.

I currently organize my widgets by putting them in folders (which removes them from the dashboard manager), but still lets them load perfectly, etc. I keep the widgets I always use and ones I need regularly for reference there, but all games in a folder and things I don't use often in a folder. Since a lot of the widgets that got in the way were ones that came in the system, I did the same thing under HD/Library too.

So, I was really excited about this. I opened it and this caused my dock to blink and all of the apps on my dashboard to reload (which is not good if any of those apps are holding information that isn't saved, or saveable) Since I didn't know this was going to happen I didn't get the opportunity to save anything I wanted to. I don't think it was, or if it was, the pdf didn't mention it. I didn't have any further problems, except that I couldn't create any sets, change my preferences or access anything.

I went to the website to contact the developer and the developer has left no contact information. If there's a problem or you want to review, you're referred here, or to a couple other sites. This is a problem on a number of levels. Anyone who has a problem or wants to leave a review or anything has to come elsewhere to and hope that the developer is paying attention. This also requires them to create an account at one of the sites.

The real problem is that if you buy the software you have no way to contact the developer for anything, for a refund, for whatever. If the serial number doesn't work, whatever. It's sending your money into thin air and hoping that everything goes right.  
(Version 1.3.2)

TELMAH  this is a really interesting concept, as I actually killed an entire cactus garden once (RL) and those things only need to be watered every few months

computer wise I haven't faired much better...I have a chi pet and flappie and I've killed both more than once and I'm not sure how

sounds like instead of getting rich, i'd end up in serious, serious debt

good thing it's virtual...  
(Version 1.0)

TELMAH  DO NOT USE THIS WIDGET/REFRESH FREQUENTLY

This widget does not check the server often--it does it, as far as I can estimate, once every 24 hours--but not timed to when new ZOTs are added.

Which I just discovered. I'm finding out about ZOTs right before they end, instead of right after they start.

This developer no longer exists (as fas as I can tell), much the pity--I really wanted to keep using notepad, and so don't expect any updates to fix this or any other problems.

This widget, like any other, can be refreshed--⌘R

If you do this frequently, that takes care of the problem  
(Version 1.5)

TELMAH   I had the same problem. I LOVED this widget and I was ready to pay 10 bucks the first day. I couldn't figure out why all of these other notepad widgets that weren't nearly as good were much bigger deals. I then slowly figured out that I couldn't buy notepad, and that there was no way I could get the software to work. Solutions for you and me follow.

If you need to retrieve your stuff:

Notepad stores everything as txt documents in the subfolder HD/Users/User/Library/Notepad

Lists don't come out formatted so well, but all the data is there.

Easyfind, a freeware producte brought to you by the great people at devonthink is really wonderful for finding stuff like that and those extra sticky things that uninstallers don't find.

But I still want Notepad!

Yah, me too. I haven't figured this one out. I'd love for someone to send me a serial number.

There are a number of different products. A good half dozen that I can think of off the top of my head. They all have different qualities that notepad had--one has a password, one exports, one resizes, one has font control, etc. Some have more than one of those.

If you used notepad for something really specific, reply and I'll try and see if I can recommend something. But I'd also just recommend doing some good google searches for notepad widget mac and downloading a few.

sorry for the double post--didn't realize replied were threaded so that they weren't shown on the main page  
(Version 2.1)

TELMAH  I had the same problem. I LOVED this widget and I was ready to pay 10 bucks the first day. I couldn't figure out why all of these other notepad widgets that weren't nearly as good were much bigger deals. I then slowly figured out that I couldn't buy notepad, and that there was no way I could get the software to work. Solutions for you and me follow.

If you need to retrieve your stuff:

Notepad stores everything as txt documents in the subfolder HD/Users/User/Library/Notepad

Lists don't come out formatted so well, but all the data is there.

Easyfind, a freeware producte brought to you by the great people at devonthink is really wonderful for finding stuff like that and those extra sticky things that uninstallers don't find.

But I still want Notepad!

Yah, me too. I haven't figured this one out. I'd love for someone to send me a serial number.

There are a number of different products. A good half dozen that I can think of off the top of my head. They all have different qualities that notepad had--one has a password, one exports, one resizes, one has font control, etc. Some have more than one of those.

If you used notepad for something really specific, reply and I'll try and see if I can recommend something. But I'd also just recommend doing some good google searches for notepad widget mac and downloading a few.  
(Version 2.1)