Dashboard

Finally, a truly useful Widget: The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — play the 1984 Infocom text-based adventure game. "Memories…" </renandstimpy>
The mighty return of Desk Accessories! :)
One of the major things that Konfabulator users crow about — i.e., not having to reveal the Widgets with a special key — is for me one of Dashboard’s best features. Besides, if you do want to detach a Widget, there’s a macosxhints.com article that will tell you how to do it. There’s also Amnesty, which puts up a Menu Bar item for running Widgets independent of Dashboard.
Check out the dashboard tag on Flickr for some cool screenshots.
My must-have Widgets (not built-in)
Although I don’t use Dashboard much nowadays, here are some essentials:
- Scoreboard
- Air Traffic Control
- TV Tracker
- Yahoo! Local Traffic
- Hula Girl
- MineSweeper (for irony’s sake if nothing else)
Apple has a Dashboard Widgets repository online naturally, but it doesn’t always have the latest greatest. Try MacUpdate for more.