#HOW TO ADD WIDGETS TO DASHBOARD MAC OS X FOR MAC OS X#
#HOW TO ADD WIDGETS TO DASHBOARD MAC OS X MAC OS X#

#HOW TO ADD WIDGETS TO DASHBOARD MAC OS X MAC OS X#

Introduced its Mac OS X Tiger way back in 2005, itвЂ™s been slowly pushed out over the last few versions of the OS and is disabled by default in Mojave. Optionally, you may configure and tweak some settings for the new widget such as width, height, name and etc. Remember Dashboard It allowed you to keep widgets in a Desktop space for things like viewing weather forecasts, stock prices or consulting a dictionary. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in. If youre using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widgets icon in the Widget Bar to open it. Then, copy and paste the web gadgetвЂ™s HTML code into the Amnesty Generator window, and click on вЂњGenerateвЂ¦вЂќ button to get your Apple Dashboard widget converted and built. Dashboard is a discontinued application for Apple Inc.s macOS operating systems, used as a secondary desktop for hosting mini-applications known as widgets.These are intended to be simple applications that do not take time to launch. If youre using Safari, click the download link. Then search for web gadget from Google Gadgets For Your Webpage (Google Gadgets is deprecated) and click on вЂњAdd to your webpageвЂќ.

The Weather Widget app icon also gives you a brief forecast or overview of current conditions in both the Dock and the menu bar.

#HOW TO ADD WIDGETS TO DASHBOARD MAC OS X FOR MAC OS X#

To use Amnesty Generator, download Amnesty Generator (AmnestyGenerator.dmg file for Mac OS X only) from (resource no longer available though source code is released to GitHub) and install it. Use the widget to give you an overview of the weather, or for a more in-depth forecast you can open the detailed weather window. In order to install and use the Google Gadget on Apple Mac OS X Tiger OS, Google Gadget has to be converted into a Dashboard widget, by using Amnesty Generator, a free utility from Mesa Dynamics.

Dashboard widgets are similar to Google Gadgets except that itвЂ™s intended for Dashboard of Mac OS X Tiger operating system, while Google Universal Gadget is a web-page based widgets. Google Gadgets or more specifically Google Universal Gadgets which are mini-applications that provide users with dynamic content that can be embedded in Web pages with functionality such as games, weather reports, calculators, currency converters, calendars, and etc, are now available for public use to embed on any websites or blogs.

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