iTunesLyrics: A cool widget idea, but still needs some work
I was pretty excited when I saw this widget posted on dashboardwidgets.com. So I downloaded it and tried it out and I didn’t like it a whole lot.
I love the idea though, so here are some suggestions for the author:
1. Make it more responsive, less slow. When I tried to scroll the scroll bar it hangs 1 out of every 3 or 4 times I use it.
2. Make it look nicer: The corners are ugly and I’m not a huge fan of the bright blue. How about a little bit of transparency just to have a little more of a dashboard widget feel.
3. Enable the scroll wheel for scrolling.
4. Add some kind of lyrics submission to one of these databases in case it can’t find the lyrics, but I have them already.
Other than that, it’s a great idea! This is the perfect kind of thing for a widget because it makes it easier than loading a web page or having to search multiple lyrics sites. And I probably wouldn’t want to spend a long time at a site reading the lyrics, just remember what that one line I couldn’t pick out of the song was.
Keep up the good work!
SAME DAY UPDATE: Just a few hours after writing the original posting, I found out that a new version of this widget was released! It’s much prettier so I don’t have to have the ugly duckling widget on my dashboard! Keep on comin’ with the good updates to this one!
