What good is Dashboard?

I finally figured out how to hide Dashboard on a Mac, but am I missing something? What good is Dashboard? Why should I have it? I do not understand it, and I have an iPhone, which does everything the "Widgets" will do, and with the new App Store for Mac, there are plenty of apps that can do what the old widgets did. I find Dashboard annoying and unnecessary. Thoughts?

Don't use it would be mine.

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I recently signed up for a one month trial of adobe pro. I logged in. I cannot convert a single page of PDF file to word or Excel with this trial. I just get the request to sign up for a year. What good is the trial if I can't try it?

Hey vcomfort6,
Please ensure that you are using Adobe Acrobat and not Reader to convert PDF file to word or excel.
Could you tell me whether it is a scanned document? Does this happen with all PDFs or any specific one?
Do you get any error message? What exactly happens when you try doing the same?
Hope to hear from you.
Regards,
Anubha

What Good Is A Smartphone?? What does it do?

I have been waiting for such a long time to be able to get a smartphone. I had to get rid of my Comcast cable in order to get the new BIONIC smartphone and be able to afford the increase in my VerizonWireless Plan.
What hype and television commercials- great aren't they?
All the thousands of cool apps that are available- I'm going to love this; I was so excited.
Then, to top it off, the BIONIC came out- I decided that this one is the one I'm going to get; it's supposed to be way beyond more powerful than any smartphone before it. And the specs were impressive, to say the least.
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Scur wrote:
If you want a comprehensive guide about permissions and overall Android safety, alostpacket on Phandroid forums wrote an awesome post.
And realize that to use any app, it needs to interact with your phone in certain ways, thus they need permission to use certain aspects of the Android OS. If you're truly worried about security, just stick with the official Android Marketplace. There are lots of places you can find apps, but AM is the only place that won't void your TOS with Verizon. Just stick with those apps and you'll be fine.
I agree, also another thing to consider the apps on other platforms uses the same access rights but the only diffrence is the Android shows you what is needed to be access... I learned that people feel more comfirtable when they dont know what is being accessed but in reality because you dont know its being accessed does not change the fact that its being accessed..
Like Scur reported the applications have to access areas of software to give you options that users want in the apps..
Now I am not saying not to keep a eye on whar is requested because apps can request for access to areas that isnt required.. A wallpaper app doesnt need access to contacts information but it would need web and permission to write to sd card. This is what is required under the programming end of a app.

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Not sure what your Muse question is but like all Adobe products they have a link to help documents and to the forums right in the help menu in the program itself. Not sure how much easier they can make it?

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Hi, Experts.
Could you guide me what are the dashboard reports are in sap crm 7.0 related sales and marketing, service.if I want to modify existing report how can I do and where I need to do ? If I want to create new dashboard report is there any designing tools are there? How can I create custom dashboard report?
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For interactive CRM report, please try link
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You posted in the wrong forum. You need to post your concerns in Product Feedback.
These are user-to-user forums where everyday folk (volunteers) post questions and offer answers (technical support) to each other. Apple involvement. Apple may respond to questions but does not formally provide technical support on the Site. Any information that is provided by Apple or Apple employees is offered on an "AS IS" basis without warranties of any kind.

What good is increased status

I was reading FAQs, and I saw where it says,
"If you submit a reply to another member's question topic, you are eligible to receive points from that member.... These points will, in turn, increase a member's ranking (status level)", "your accumulated points will increase your status level" and "you will be awarding the respondent with the same point values."
What I'm wondering, is, what good will all those points and increased ranking/status/level do me? Does that increase my ability to do something, or is it just to give me a sense of accomplishment - or something I'm not thinking of?
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Ted
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Hi Ted,
Nice comment indeed
"Why do I so often see helpers reminding/requesting helpees to note the "helpful" or "solved" for them?"
This didn't happen before November 11, 2005, under the old system when the points total was personal and hidden.
This New Discussions system that ostensibly shows a "Top Rated Members" list, has caused this new behaviour among the most addicted, for a few various and very human reasons.
Then of course when one or two or three very old and regular members begin to ask for points, it sets an example and spreads quickly as a new habit that has nothing to do with technical spirit, and indeed goes even against a certain "Mac spirit" we used to share, if we still see any good in such old-fashioned notion?
So, now that this "Top Rated Members" list is on display, AND now that we've had plenty of time since 11-Nov-2005 to follow the "results",
we can clearly point some evolution in the Discussions functioning, as for example, among others:
- A possibility for some who own a commercial website, to use it as yet another ad banner.
- An exacerbated sense of competition among many helpers, not anymore in the direction of good tipping, research and will to learn more technical skills, rather in the direction of speed-replying always the same questions and simplifying shotgun solutions.
- Indeed this increased sense that Points are important. Obviously, since they are on display!!
What good is increased status:
It depends on how members see it, and on the kinds of means to increase the status.
I guess a system where robot-posting and a sense of childish competition are encouraged, doesn't give/get the same idea as in a system where it's more about constructive research, friendly side-tips, patient time and interest taken in our wonderful Macs interesting technical questions.
Note that AD software, functioning and even crew have already changed in the past.
This "star system" we are experiencing now may as well be replaced with a better one in the future?
Still, have a good time with your Macs and the AD!
Axl

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Brent,
By design, the sharing capability allows listening but prevents copying. The same restrictions apply to a husband and wife in one household as to two students in adjacent dorm rooms. (You can probably imagine why it is designed that way, but it does not really matter.)
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What good is GarageBand without an audio in on an iMac other than editing previously recorded files. No overdubbing in a recording program is useless. thanks

I wanted to use GarageBand for recording acoustic guitar and voice at least at 96/24. This iMic is probably not up to that. Maybe CD quality. I am stuck using an old Powerbook. There are many problems with interfaces that I have found while searching for them and without spending a boatload of cash on pro studio interfaces, there is no solution that will work for me. Maybe some time in a far off future there is a thunderbolt interface coming. Thanks for your help.
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Please tell me any one What kind of Dashboards in Xcelsius 2008?
Thanks
Chandrasekhar

Hi,
Your Question is not clear. Still i m trying to deliver what i uderstood.
Through Xcelsius we deliver flash dashboards which will be ease in point and click. The main advantage with the Xcelsius dashboards is, it buffers the data at backend. No code involved in designing dashboards, just you have to know some basic fucntions in excel.
Comparing with other dashboard tools it provides rich look and feel, no page refresh rate, come up with single file and no problem of configuring with the server.
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What's the dashboard useful for?

I've never figured this one out
Calculator, weather, clock
All useless if you ask me. LOL
What else is worth putting there that will make my life better?
Yes sure... before anyone says... we're all different... what is good for some may not be good for others...
I'd be interested to hear what others have in the their dashboard?
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