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...DASHBOARD...
...Widgets is a word guaranteed to excite only engineers. But that's what Apple calls the components of Dashboard, a collection of customizable and incredibly useful widgets, each of which materialize on your desktop with a soothing ripple effect and look good enough to lick. There's a widget that tracks your chosen stock prices, a widget that translates any word into one of a dozen languages, widgets that converts currency, weights and measures, and a widget that searches the entire Oxford American dictionary and Thesaurus (which also ships with Tiger). Widgets do all the workaday stuff...
Thieves can clone any car by writing down its VIN--which is required by law to be displayed on the bottom of the dashboard and is also found on parts of the frame--and using bar-code software, high-quality home printers and metal-stamping tools to create identical tags for a stolen car of the same make and model. If a car has duplicated tags, a police officer running the VIN through his computer during a routine traffic stop can't tell that...
...show last week was just the second in support of his new album, Emoh (both “home” backwards and a tongue-in-cheek reference to the ephemeral music recently popularized by acts like Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday), since its Jan. 25 release. Barlow had to delay the promotion of the record for over a month, and for good reason: Emoh entered stores just two days before his first daughter was born, and he has spent the time since caring for her and his wife, who suffered complications from the pregnancy...
...perplexed by that pesky check- engine light that pops up on your dashboard, help has arrived. The CodeScout, at right, helps you figure out what is wrong by plugging into your car's diagnostic port (near steering wheel) and displaying a detailed error message. If it's just a loose gas cap, you can save a trip to the shop. Alas, some of the $150 device's messages are so cryptic, you may end up running to a mechanic to decipher them...