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Not everything you do on your Mac requires a heavy-duty application. For those smaller tasks, macOS features Dashboard. Dashboard provides access to several fun and functional, mini applications called widgets.

Not everything you do on your Mac requires a heavy-duty application. For those smaller tasks, macOS features Dashboard. Dashboard provides access to several fun and functional, mini applications called 'widgets'.

Dashboard includes widgets for some of your Mac applications, such as Address Book and iCal, which allow you to access your contacts and view your iCal events, respectively, without having to switch over to the full application. You can add more widgets to Dashboard and even create your own widgets.

To read more about Dashboard, vist Mac 101: Dashboard.

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Can I disable Dashboard in Mountain Lion?

I'm wondering if there's a way to disable the dashboard in Mountain Lion. I never use it and I think it's consuming processor and memory powers.
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Quickly view the monthly/yearly calendar

Before mac os catalina, we could press F12 and see the dashboard including the monthly calendar. On mac os catalina, dashboard has been removed. Any tips on quickly viewing the current month's/year's calendar in catalina. Thank you.
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Where can I find dashboard widgets on OS Catalina?

Here's what I'm talking about: I couldn't find it anymore, I used to set it as a hot corner in System Preferences > Mission Control, I tried to search the keyword "Dashboard" in System Preferences but ended with no luck. Did Apple remove Dashboard…
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How to remap F4 to Dashboard or Notifications on a MacBook Pro in Yosemite?

I had this working fine in Tiger thru Mavericks, but it broke in Yosemite. Pressing F4 now launches Launchpad, and only fnF4 triggers Dashboard. Launchpad is useless compared to Spotlight or even the Dock. I'd much rather have the F4 key triggering…
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Putting "widgets" on Mac desktop

Is there any software to put certain "widgets" on the desktop, such as notes or a clock? I would like to have apps permanently affixed there, rather than being open as separate apps or hovering over other windows.
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How to recover dashboard stickies on macOS Catalina?

According to the article Apple Confirms Dashboard is Going Away After 14 Years, dashboard has been removed within macOS 10.15, Catalina. I had some Stickies with information stored in dashboard and I would like to recover it if possible.
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Is Dashboard on life support?

In the past week or so Apple's language translation widget (which uses SYSTRAN for translation) has stopped working, and in searching for a replacement widget I noticed that a lot of former widget developers have now abandoned support for their…
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How can I Transfer Dashboard Information from one computer to another?

How is it possible to transfer all my information from dashboard(in stickies) to my new macbook pro? Is there an easy file just to transfer or do I have to copy and paste them to an email? Also I have 10.6 running on my macbook and 10.7 on my new…
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Looking for Working Weather Dashboard Widget

So the weather widget apple includes with macOS no longer works. It's been broken for a while now, I suspect it's never coming back. Especially since it was powered by Yahoo. Also Apple's "dashboard widget" directory hasn't been updated in 10+…
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How can I move Dashboard widgets to the desktop in Lion?

In the OS X Terminal, there is a command that allows me to drag Dashboard widgets onto my desktop. In OS X Lion, the Dashboard became a Space. I am no longer able to use this command. What is a workaround to this? The command is: defaults write…
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How do I prevent widgets from moving around on the dashboard?

Is there a way to disable moving widgets around in the dashboard? I have a neat layout all set up, and would like to prevent accidental widget movements.
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Web clip widget in Notification Center

With the old Dashboard it's possible to create a web clip widget from Safari. As it seems like the Dashboard is getting phased out and the Notification Center is definitely a handy place to have widgets, is there any way to get this on macOS…
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Is it possible to reassign the "Pinch with thumb and three fingers" gesture to activate Dashboard instead of Launchpad?

I don't really have a use for Launchpad, but the gesture to me makes sense for Dashboard. I experimented a little with BetterTouchTool, but it doesn't have the gesture available, and I'm not sure it would work well with the sequence of successive…
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Is there a dashboard widget for displaying (and monitoring or reloading) plain text files?

I use todo.txt as a todo list manager, and so my todo list is saved as a text file. I'd like for there to be a widget that monitors text files, so that it's not on my desktop, but in my dashboard. Is there a widget for this? Also, I can't seem to…
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How do I permanently show my dashboard on a separate monitor?

I work in multi monitor setup. I have some important information available in the dashboard and want it to be always visible on one of the monitor. Is there a way (w/ external software or not) to do so?
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