Dashboard is home to widgets and all Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) users should be using them. I’m revealing my Dashboard as occasionally I get asked about it. From the pre-installed ones worth mentioning are Calculator, Weather (possible to have multiple locations), Unit Converter and Dictionary (great, located on hard drive so no need to be online).
My Current Installation
More widgets can be found from Apple’s site. My personal third-party favorites include:
- Sol – tells you what time sunrise (dawn) and sunset (dusk) are
- iStat Pro – the ultimate system monitoring widget
- Sing that iTune! – search and save lyrics in music files
- Currency Converter – 170 world currencies; great when doing online shopping
Have to get back to these once I’ll install the Tiger (have been in the process since it was published, so probably when I’m upgrading the whole computer). The dictionary and sing that iTune! seem quite handy ones.
But what would be really great gadget (at least for me) is a discount flight locator, which would show all the time cheapest possible flights from different airlines between selected cities. That way one could always be in look for cheap flights back to Finland (or any other place).