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.