Comments on: How to Fix Your Desktop Widgets

By: Kurt

Kurt — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:23:11 +0000

If you want to keep a widget on your desktop, enter this command on your Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

Whenever you activate Dashboard, click on the widget you want on your desktop and drag it around, then exit Dashboard and your widget will appear on your desktop. It’s pretty useful.

By: nick

nick — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:15:48 +0000

Cool

By: joseph

joseph — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:10:09 +0000

I love widjets

By: climby

climby — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:05:25 +0000

Widgets do help us communicate with the internet over our desktop, technology surely has advanced :)

By: Commodore256

Commodore256 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:04:37 +0000

Thanks for the advice!

By: Scuba Steve

Scuba Steve — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:04:26 +0000

is it true that widgets slow down your computer?

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:03:39 +0000

I like Widgets.

By: SpencerC

SpencerC — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:03:03 +0000

i hate gadgets, i love widgets. there is a cool program that lets you make gadgets! i forgot whats it;s called

By: SBDTHRU

SBDTHRU — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 04:00:38 +0000

Wow, this really helped me out a lot. I was looking all over the web for something like this and I found it right here on your site. Mac OS X can’t be perfect but it’s the closest thing to it!

By: IchBinMatthew

IchBinMatthew — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:59:38 +0000

GREAT POST.

My weather widget has been stuck on my desktop for awhile now…….

By: ohmahgaw246

ohmahgaw246 — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 03:17:28 +0000

I also recently transitioned to Macs and I think that Developer Mode is a great tip. Being a desktop modder on Windows this got me into using widgets more often in OS X. It made it more like a similar widgets program I use in Windows called AveDesk. I kind of got annoyed easily having to go into Dashboard to see the widgets all the time. I know some people think widgets make desktops look cluttered but I find them very useful.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:13:03 +0000

I too have been having problems with my widgets. For now there fine. I also found out through you about the developer mode. This has helped me and saved me a lot of stress because now I don’t have to hit F12 to go back to the dashboard!

By: Mozillarama

Mozillarama — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:09:52 +0000

I don’t use a mac, and probably never will. Widgits to me just seem very trivial and kind of a hassle. I mean i can see how they would be cool, and i can see how they can help, but i think that if givin the opportunity to put tons of widgets on my computer i would just bogg the screen up. I think that a good remedy for PC users instead of widgets are addons for firefox. I love them.

By: theclownslaugh

theclownslaugh — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:08:15 +0000

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By: Tanner

Tanner — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:01:52 +0000

so far all the widgets for me on windows have been doing fine and as far as comming across any that didn’t work haven’t been problem for me yet which is pretty great