

OS X will now jump over to Dashboard and create the widget, depending on the page being loaded from it may take a moment or two to propagate and render within Dashboard.

#MOST POPULAR MAC DASHBOARD WIDGETS HOW TO#
If you’re new to this feature, here is exactly how to build a widget very quickly out of any web page element: Making your own Dashboard widgets this way has been around for quite some time, but most users don’t seem to know about it let alone how to use it.

Best of all, the widgets created this way maintain their live functionality, meaning a web widget will continue to update live as if it was on the web, even though it is now contained within Dashboard. Much of Dashboards lack of use comes down to not having widgets that pertain to interests of the user, and that’s where this trick comes in, which allows you to quickly create your very own custom Dashboard widget from any web page or web site element.
#MOST POPULAR MAC DASHBOARD WIDGETS MAC OS X#
Dashboard is a largely under appreciated feature of Mac OS X that adds little widgets to the Dashboard space or added directly to the desktop itself.
