mini applications that are hosted in the OS X Dashboard
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Which are the OS X Dashboard Widgets you can't live without?
I don't use widgets that much, but one particular widget makes the dashboard useful to me. That's iStat
iStat Pro is a highly configurable
widget that lets you monitor every
aspect of your ...
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Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard that has bigger sticky notes?
Is there a widget for Mac OS X dashboard to write down notes?
N.B. What I use now are yellow small sticky notes (I'm using 8 on several spots on the scren).
I really love them, but sometimes it ...
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Is there an OS X dashboard widget for notes from the iPhone Notes app?
I'm looking for a Dashboard widget for OS X that allows you to read and edit notes—the pieces of text in iPhone Notes application and Mail.app. (I.e., something analogous to the To Do Widget which ...
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Any way to make weather widget stick to its place?
I have four weather widgets on my dashboard at the moment. The problem I'm finding is that when I arrange them one way - every now and then some of them move down by 20-100 px approximately.
I think ...
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1answer
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“Lockable” stickies on the dashboard?
I'm looking for a dashboard sticky-type widget that I can "lock" so that it won't accept edits. I have a number of stickies that I place there with common terminal commands I use, but I have the nasty ...
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1answer
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Dashboard takes few seconds to update widgets
I love the idea of the dashboard, but there's one thing that pretty much kills it for me. When I activate dashboard for a first time or after some extended period of time it takes it 3-15 seconds to ...
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Can anyone recommend a decent free stop watch widget for MacOSX?
I would like something that is simple to use.
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How to set a Monospace Font for Dashboard Sticky Notes Widget?
I would like to use a monospaced font on the Sticky Notes in Apple's Dashboard widget.
However, only a few fonts can be selected, none of which is monospaced.
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What is the best widget for song lyrics?
I'm looking for a widget that can
Show the lyrics of the current playing song
Get the lyrics online if there is none on the music, and save it
Nice designed
I used to use the Harmonic widget, but ...
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1answer
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Did the calculator widget break in Lion?
I seem unable to send a "clear" button press from the number pad on my standard apple extended keyboard (aluminum) to the calculator widget in Dashboard on Lion. The regular calculator app works as ...
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iCal events on the desktop; Dashboard widgets vs. GeekTool vs.?
Over the last few years I've become very dependent on the Amnesty Widget Browser and a little Dashboard widget called "iCal Events" to embed a well-styled list of upcoming iCal events into my desktop ...
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Stock widget doesn't save list of stocks
I am running Lion and I wanted to add certain stocks to the Stock widget. I was able to add them fine and remove the default ones but everytime I go back to Dashboard the Stock widget is reset and the ...
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Is there a dashboard widget for Microsoft Outlook/Exchange calendar?
Does there exist a dashboard widget which displays my Outlook/Entourage and Exchange calendar?
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Is there a dashboard widget that displays Google Maps and traffic data overlay?
Is there a dashboard widget available that displays Google Maps with traffic data?
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1answer
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A better dashboard dictionary widget
I find the default dictionary dashboard widget on my MacBook Pro to be very annoying. One, you type in a misspelled word and it says, ""x" could not be found" instead of being helpful and offering ...
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1answer
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iChrono won't install
I have tried downloading iChrono, unzipping and installing, but I get the following error message:
You can't install the file "iChrono
3.wdgt" because it isn't a valid widget?
The requirements ...
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Transfer OSX Dashboard Widgets Between Computers
Can anyone tell me an easy way to transfer my dashboard widgets from one osx computer to another? If there was a way to keep their positioning/settings too that would be great.
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Is there a configurable “word-of-the-day”-screensaver/ -widget
I am looking for a "word-of-the-day" screensaver or dashboard widget where I can configure (e.g. in a text file) that "words" to be displayed?
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How to import dashboard stickies from an old hard disk without using migration assistant?
I recently installed a new hard drive in my Macbook Pro for a fresh installation of OSX Lion.
How can I get my dashboard stickies from the old hard disk without using migration assistant?
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What is another source for Dashboard widgets?
On the Apple Dashboard widgets page, the most recent app (found at the top of the Just Added section) is The Weather Channel Widget, released on February 14, 2011. Where can I find some more recent ...
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1answer
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How to get rid of a widget stuck on the desktop instead of the dashboard?
A long time ago I installed the Art Directors Toolkit widget. Today, when I restarted my computer after a power outage, there were 2 instances of the widget. The first one is in the dashboard and a ...
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1answer
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Are there any way I can have a Dashboard Widget visible all the time on the desktop?
A thing that I like with Windows 7 is that I can have the gadgets (widgets) open and visible all the time, e.g. a small RSS reader in the corner of the desktop.
I would like to be able to have a ...
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1answer
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Dashboard Widget for Outlook:Mac2011 tasks
I am using Mac OS X 10.7.1 and Outlook for Mac 2011 (14.1.0); I am looking for a dashboard widget which could list all the tasks I have added in Outlook.
Is there one such dashboard widget ...
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How do I get the iTunes play control widget back in Dashboard?
In OS X 10.7 Lion, the iTunes dashboard widget from 10.6 Snow Leopard is no longer on the dashboard, I can't find a method of adding it again, it doesn't appear to be listed.
I frequently used this ...
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Dashboard Widget for persistently editing a file
Is there a dashboard widget that one can use to persistently edit a text file?
For example, suppose I want to have my changelog open all the time in a Git repository.
Many thanks.
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Sticky note widgets each have their cursor blinking as if active all together
Using a new MBP Retina at work with Mountain Lion. I always used the sticky dashboard widgets to organize my oh-so-chaotic life on my Lion MBP.
Now that I use them in 10.8 (around 16-20 stickies) I ...
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Use MacBook Air or Pro for app development? [closed]
I need to replace my old Mac and I am wondering which one should I get between:
MacBook Air or MacBook Pro
The primary goal will be to develop iPhone and iPad Apps and OSX Widgets.
Is there a ...
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How to move around with the mouse in a Web Clip Widget?
I have created a Clip Web dashboard with a selection of a web site that shows a google maps with special spots. How can I move the map around in that widget ?
The only thing I managed to do is to ...
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How do I move widgets on the Dashboard that are out of the viewing area?
I have a couple of widgets in Dashboard that moved outside of the viewing area. I can only see them in Mission Control.
How do I move them back?
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Cmd+plus now opens Widgets instead of zooming
This has just started happening in the last few weeks, and I can't work out how to change it.
It used to be that I could use Cmd+= to zoom in in my web browser, and cmd+- to zoom out. But just ...
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Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters?
I've been looking for a decent Unicode widget that allows access to some of the weirder characters like ✓ and ✗.
Does such a beast exist? I've tried a few and all of them seem kind of ...
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Screen Forced Away from Dashboard
I have this issue on my Macbook Air that happens often if I select a gadget on the dashboard. I get forced away from the dashboard to the Desktop. I noticed if I previously selected one gadget and I ...
