Dnactions Widget For Mac

(157) Post to your blog and stay up to minute with favorite feeds and discussions. (85) Get organized with widgets for everything from Main St.

(118) Measure twice, cut once. These widgets keep your calculations on the money. (64) You’re in command with widgets that speed up development tasks. (38) Track your email, find buddies, and send text messages to mobile networks. (35) Discover local restaurants and mouth-watering recipes from your Dashboard. (89) You should be working, but these widgets are sure to tear you away.

(49) Know it all with widgets for weather, tides, astronomy and more. (234) Search Australia or Austria with this worldwide collection of widgets.

(100) Fun widgets to brighten up your Dashboard. (62) What’s on? Look up TV listings, track hot movies, and show up on time. (84) These widgets will have you singing, dancing, and tuning your iTunes. (54) Manage and protect your wired world from your Dashboard. (107) Track the latest feeds from news agencies near and far. (81) Listen to live audio streams while you work or play.

(108) From the essential to the esoteric, these widgets can ask anything.

Just picked up my new MacBook Pro yesterday. The dashboard came with Cupertino, CA defaulted as weather and time. I can’t figure out how to get my home town as the default location, even though I marked it as such numerous times in the Yahoo weather page. Any suggestions as to how I can change this default setting? So glad to get this note. I constantly forget about the Dashboard capability on my Mac, for some reason or other, and always have a sense that everyone else does too, but obviously not.

Still, I’m curious, do you, dear reader, use Dashboard on your Mac OS X system, or is it one of those forgotten features? (Another one that precious few people seem to use but I love is Spaces. I permanently have six spaces on my Mac and find it a splendid way to organize my workspace, but then again, I’ve used virtual screen systems for over twenty years, starting with early X Window System Unix boxes Anyway, Dashboard is a pretty cool feature but in their zeal to make it slick and visually beautiful, I fear that the Apple team might have made it just a wee bit more complicated than necessary. That’s what you’re facing, and the secret is to know that buttons appear when you put the cursor over the specified widget.

Free Donation Widget

Let me show you, with the weather widget. Here’s the default Dashboard weather widget, as supplied by Apple (you can push F4 on your keyboard to get Dashboard, btw): Put your cursor over it, however, and a tiny little “i” shows up on the bottom right corner: Click on it and the entire widget swings horizontally around and shows you the “back”, where the configuration is accessible: As you might expect, just type in the city, state of your current location: Click “Done” and That’s it. While the weather widget is powered by Yahoo Weather, it doesn’t know anything about configuration changes you make on Yahoo’s site itself, which is why you weren’t having any luck with it. Btw, Didja notice the little “X” on the lower left? Click on it and you’re in the Dashboard management area: You can move around to see what widgets are available (you can also install new ones from the, fyi) and if you did want a second weather widget with the weather in another city, you could just click on the weather widget icon. It shows up with a very cool visual effect: And now you can customize it just as you customized the first widget, unless you really are interested in the weather at Apple’s Cupertino HQ.