Comments (13)

• Black Bloke

  Thanks for these David. I'm glad to see the effort being put into it. If I were to request something it would be a precious metals widget I could put on my dock.

  I already use the (very well done) Gold Price Widget (http://homepage.mac.com/jceaser/software/dashboard/gold/index.html), but the author says that he won't be making a widget that includes other precious metals. I'm using a Webclip at the moment to track the other prices, but that's just not good enough.

  Do you think that you'd be up to the task?

  Published: December 9, 2008 5:11 AM

• David Veksler

  Well, Gold Price uses the pricing data from the Digital Gold Currency Standards Consortium. Is there a source for other metals in a similarly easy-to-access format?

  Published: December 9, 2008 7:18 AM

• Arend

  Best Midwinter Night present ever! Now I finally have some Austrian-libertarian reasons to buy an (highly political incorrect closed system like) Apple. Let's see how I digest these reasons over some nights of sleep... The European versions of Krugman say I should be spending anyways. ;)

  Published: December 9, 2008 7:40 AM

• Zach_the_Evil

  Linux users who have KDE 4 may also be able to use the widgets. I have KDE 4 on my home PC, but my laptop doesn't have KDE 4 ATM, so I cannot check.

  Arend:

  Are Macs politically incorrect? It appears most criticisms are leveled at Microsoft, not Apple. Microsoft, not Apple, has had trials against it for antitrust and other "crimes." Apple is mored closed, and they include their own music player just like the evil Windows, iirc, but they aren't getting sued.

  In fact, Apple is hip. In one of my classes, a hard core Obama true believer has a Mac, despite the fact that the laptop was more than twice the cost of a comparable laptop from anyone else. She rails on against the evils of corporate wealth, complains she is poor, but has a laptop that is way more expensive than mine, a car that is more expensive than mine, clothes that are more expensive than mine, etc.

  Published: December 9, 2008 8:48 AM

• Jeffrey Tucker

  
  Is it possible to post this download here?
  http://mises.org/about/3251

  Published: December 9, 2008 9:59 AM

• Daniel

  Personally, the iPhone apps I would be most interested in would be books like Man,Economy, and State and Human Action. I would love them on my iPod Touch, but there are no app store PDF readers equipped to deal with full length books.

  Published: December 9, 2008 10:39 AM

• Daniel

  Personally, the iPhone apps I would be most interested in would be books like Man,Economy, and State and Human Action. I would love them on my iPod Touch, but there are no app store PDF readers equipped to deal with full length books.

  Published: December 9, 2008 10:40 AM

• Chris

  Daniel,

  Try out the "Files" app in the App Store.

  It works great for me.

  I've got Rothbard's "America's Great Depression" on my iPod Touch right now.

  Published: December 9, 2008 11:27 AM

• Mike

  Weekly gold, silver and platinum charts here at www.goldbullionprices.org - we also have weekly updates of reflation/deflation ratios such as gold/copper, gold/silver and gold/crude to help you see how the fed's money printing operations are proceeding, and are currently developing widgets along the lines you mention...stay tuned...

  Published: December 9, 2008 1:25 PM

• Libertas est Veritas

  Mac? Pfft. Linux is the way of the future! How about a few KDE plasmoids?

  Published: December 9, 2008 3:10 PM

• David Veksler

  Well, KDE 4 support for Dashboard was announced back in January 1, 2006, so it should be pretty mature by now, right?

  Published: December 9, 2008 3:40 PM

• Black Bloke

  Well, Gold Price uses the pricing data from the Digital Gold Currency Standards Consortium. Is there a source for other metals in a similarly easy-to-access format?

  The Digital Gold Currency Standards Consortium uses the Kitco charts as a source. Kitco has a track of precious metals (e.g. http://www.kitco.com/charts/livesilverw.html) and even some base metals (http://www.kitcometals.com/charts/).

  Published: December 12, 2008 6:09 AM

• Arend

  @ Zach_the_Evil: yeah, maybe my reference to (buying) the products of Apple as politically incorrect was somewhat false and confused.

  My qualification was based on the point you raise though. Apple offers a 'more or less' closed system of hardware and software (the operating system), which is of course their right. (If Apple is in its right to sue companies selling PC with Mac OS X remains to be seen: http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14557 ). The raving anti-trust commissions (at least in the EU) aren't chasing Apple because they do not have much 'market power', such as Microsoft, so it isn't really a problem for them. But because the Perfect Competition/anti trust ideology is riding high, while Apple is able to sell closed systems, led me to the statement that buying Apple is somewhat politically incorrect.

  As for the prices of Apple systems: hardware-wise Apples are way overpriced compared to other brands, but that excludes the subjective value attached to design (both aesthetics and durability) and the use of Mac OSX. If these values attached are higher than the value you attach to the currency you are currently holding, you buy an Apple. If not, then not.

  Published: December 12, 2008 8:08 AM