making Dashboard widgets [more] useful

Anyone know if there’s a way to have the widgets fetch information before I open the Dashboard? Maybe an hourly refresh or — wait for it — a learned refresh rate depending on when I open Dashboard? If I commonly open it

  • at 9
  • at midday
  • at 2:30
  • at 4

then update info 5 minute prior to that time (maybe that’s asking a lot: I’d be happy with hourly updates). In all seriousness, I can load a webpage with temperature/weather details before the Weather widget can refresh itself. I realize I am on an underprovisioned machine here, but surely I’m not the only one who doesn’t have a Dual Core with 2 Gb of RAM?

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