Friday, February 27, 2009

Detach Dashboard Widgets to live on your Mac OS X Desktop all the time

Dashboard widgets are very convenient way to launch useful applications in a second or two. If you want your Dashboard widgets to remain active in our desktop all the time without needing to launch it, here is a simple way to make your Dashboard widgets available all the time in your desktop.

1. Launch Terminal, it’s in the Utilities folder under Applications

2. Type the following in the terminal

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

3.Logout and log back in

To detach a widget off of the Dashboard and onto your desktop, just do the following,

1. Press F12 or whatever key you assigned to activate the dashboard.

2. Begin dragging the widget and press F12 again, before letting up on the mouse button

3. Drop the widget wherever you want it to be.

Now the widget will live in your Dashboard all the time.

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