Find missing accessories. Gadgets keeps track of where and when you last connected to a smart accessory. And with Treasure Tags, you can use Gadgets to ring the tag when nearby. Get a heads up when to charge your phone. With Gadgets you can add a new feature to your wireless charger, making it blink when your phone's battery is low. In order to open Dashboard, just click it's icon in the dock.
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Widgets are small mini-applications designed to perform tasks that we otherwise perform by visiting web pages. For instance, instead of opening Safari and going to a weather website, you can access the weather-widget with a single click of your mouse.
- Enable macOS' hidden Dashboard Development Mode. To place widgets on the Desktop, you'll need to enable a hidden dashboard development mode, which was originally designed to make life easier for widget developers.With this mode enabled, developers were able to place their work-in-progress widgets on their Desktop, where they could more easily test and debug them.
- Nov 19, 2017 The ability to use widgets on your desktop should now be enabled. To move a widget into your desktop: Pull up your Dashboard with the keyboard shortcut Fn + F12. Click and hold a widget you want transferred. Use the keyboard shortcut Fn + F12 again to move to your desktop, and release your widget.
- Open the Dashboard. The Dashboard can be found in your Applications folder, or by clicking.
Widgets are not viewed the same way as regular applications. Instead, they are shown in Dashboard. When opening Dashboard, your screen fades a bit and the widgets zoom in across the screen.
Open Dashboard
In order to open Dashboard, just click it's icon in the dock.
When you do so, Dashboard and the widgets will appear.
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The widgets
What they are
Widgets are small applications used to perform smaller tasks or show data. Since they are programmed the same way as websites are it is easy for web developers to create widgets that display information from their websites.
Show/hide widgets
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If you look at the lower left corner of Dashboard, you will see a plus button. If you click it, a bar containing all installed widgets will appear. From this bar, just drag the applications that you wish to use onto the Dashboard space.
If you wish to hide a widget, hold down the alt key and put the cursor over the widget. A button looking like a cross will appear in the widget's upper left corner. Click it and the widget disappears. If you wish to use it again, just click the plus button in the lower left corner again.
Changing widget settings
Most widgets have some settings. When you put the cursor over a widget, a small i-symbol will appear somewhere on the widget (usually the lower right corner). Click this and the widget will flip over and settings will appear.
Close Dashboard
If you wish to close Dashboard, press the esc button or click the desktop but not on a widget. The widgets will disappear and the desktop will be as bright as always.
Download more widgets!
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There are many great places for downloading new widgets. Here are some of them:
Install downloaded widgets
It's silly really. Just click the download button at a web page that offers a widget. When the widget is downloaded, your Mac will simply ask you if you wish to install the widget or not.
Uninstall the widget
If you wish to uninstall a widget, open another widget called 'Widgets'. From that one, you can delete others by pressing the minus next to their name.
