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Carpenters' Level OS X Dashboard widget

by Jordan Running on January 24, 2006 at 04:40 PM

Yep, more fun with the built-in accelerometer ("sudden motion sensor") in Apple laptops: Pall Thayer has a Dashboard widget that looks and works just like a carpenters' level, showing the tilt of your PowerBook or iBook with a little virtual air bubble in a little virtual green glass vial. Available free from Thayer's site or from Apple. Cool.

[Via kottke.org]

Tags: apple, dashboard, ibook, Jason Kottke, level, os x, Pall Thayer, PallThayer, powerbook, widget

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j cranfordJan 24th 2006 11:08PM

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Will this widget work with windows? i wonder if i could load this on my motion computing tablet to help me get the perfect level pool table?

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Jordan RunningJan 24th 2006 11:11PM

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Nope, J, it's a Mac OS X Dashboard widget.

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j cranfordJan 24th 2006 11:22PM

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thats ok ...so i can still use my excuse for my poor pool talent on the "tabels not completly level yet"

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