»In which I find the only widget I will ever use
I have not become accustomed to using the OSX Dashboard Widgets, despite the proliferation of almost-there ideas expressed as mini-applications. I am still quite enamoured of the widget idea, and wrote a handful to ease some routine tasks at work -- actually, it did nothing for the tasks themselves, but take the scripts from very small pieces of shell code to bloated applets in a very pretty presentation layer.
I found this, the Disable Dashboard Widget, and voilą!, hundreds of megs of memory become free, and I am can remap a function key (f12) to something useful, like a screen-lock script.
