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Free Up Resources With DashQuit

Written on October 10, 2008 by Charles Moore and 5 people have commented

The Dashboard was one of the marquee new features in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger when it was introduced in the spring of 2005 — a sort of Desktop alternate universe accessed through the Dock as a home and interface for an assortment of mini-applications and utilities called Widgets.
Those who liked it, liked it a [...]

Weekly Widget: MadLibs

Written on April 03, 2008 by Josh Pigford and No one has commented

I remember in Jr. High and High School wasting hours of class time doing madlibs with my classmates. I’m quite positive I learned more reading madlibs than reading Edgar Allen Poe.
Fortunately you now can waste your day away doing madlibs right on your Mac thanks to the MadLibs widget!
It includes 23 different madlib stories [...]

What Widgets Can You Not Live Without?

Written on August 23, 2007 by Matt Radel and 17 people have commented

As a former die hard Konfabulator user, it took me some time to get used to Dashboard. I fumed when I couldn’t keep widgets on my desktop at all times (without a terminal hack that is), and generally resisted it. But as time has passed (and passed, and passed) with Tiger, Dashboard has become [...]

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