Wolfgang Reutz's Blog

I just wrote the initial (and maybe useful) version of my very first dashboard widget. You can find it on the software page and download and use it for free.

features:

• calculate filesize from a given movie length and bitrate and optional audio bitrate
• calculate bitrate from a given movie length and filesize and optional audio bitrate
• calculate length in seconds from given filesize, audio bitrate and video bitrate
• calculate filesize of a movie with given length and choosable format (DV, DV50/DVCpro50, Uncompressed PAL 8-bit and 10-bit) and vice versa

screenshot:

download:

Video Calculator Widget 0.1 (252 KB)

lately i realized that dashboard is pretty useless for me because some of the info i want from widgets like the weather os system stats or the clock from another timezone are things i want to see all the time – not when i hit F12.

It came to my mind that some time ago there was a similar thing to dashboard – oh what was is called – konfabulator? yes, konfabulator is still alive (but bought by yahoo! making it free asfree beer).

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