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Dashboard Widgets

Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger - Part of the much larger Photoshop Online Resource Guide

A clearinghouse for links to Mac OSX 10.4.x Tiger Dashboard Widgets info

Compiled by Ken Leonard

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Dashboard Widgets Content Below

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Many new Widgets are showing up daily and I suspect will continue to appear for a long, long time. Most

of these are free. A few are demos and a few are shareware. No one site will have all the widgets and most likely there is some duplication between sites.

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Dashboard Widget sites - Major sites offering Dashboard Widgets - Mostly for free

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Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets Top One Thousand

Included Dashboard widgets - 14 DW’s are part of Mac OSX 10.4 Tiger - Apple site link

Apple Dashboard Widgets - 1010 additional Dashboard Widget downloads at this writing

Top 50 Dashboard Widgets - From the Apple site

Dashboard Widget search result - 220 Widgets as of this writing - Mac Update site

Dashboard Widget search result - 71 Widgets as of this writing -  Versiontracker site

768 Dashboard Widgets - as of this writing - Dashboarder site.

Dashboard Exposed - Currently 53 Widgets listed

Dashboard Widget Exchange - Currently 72 Widgets listed

Widget Tracker - 103 Dashboard Widgets as of this writing

The Widget Machine

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Widgets Watch

By Charles W. Moore

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  1. Widget Watch - Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Monday, July 18, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Monday, June 27, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Friday, June 17, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Monday, June 13, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

  1. Widget Watch - Thursday, June 2, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore

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Widgets of the Week

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  1. Widgets of the week: July 29, 2005  

  1. Widgets of the week: July 22, 2005

  1. Widgets of the week: July 8, 2005

  1. Widgets of the week: June 24, 2005

  1. Widgets of the week: 6/17/2005

  1. Widgets of the week: 6/10/2005

  1. Widgets of the week 5/27/2005: Game time

  1. Widgets of the week: 5/20/2005

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Dashboard Widgets by Category

The Apple Widget Page site now has 818 Widgets

You can go to the site here and select the category and then the specific widget you want.

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Application Widgets

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Application Interfaces - Dashboard Widgets site - 21 as of this writing

App Integrated Widgets - Dashboard Lineup site

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Clocks and Calendars Widgets

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Clocks and Calendars Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 39 as of this writing.

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Decorative Widgets

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Decorative Widgets - Dashboard eye Candy and adornments - 45 as of this writing

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Fun Widgets

Games, Comics and More

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Fun and Games Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 47 as of this writing

Entertainment - Dashboard Exchange site - 7 as of this writing

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Math Widgets

Calculators and Number Crunching

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Math Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 20 Widgets at this writing

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Multimedia Widgets

Music, Webcams, photo and movie controllers and the like

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Multimedia Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 45 Widgets

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News Widgets

News Tracking

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News Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 54 as of this writing

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Organizers

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Organizers - Dashboard Exchange site - 2 as of this writing

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Phonebook Widgets

Find Phone numbers from a Widget

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Phonebook Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 25 Widgets as of this writing

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Post and Upload Widgets

Dashboard Publishing to the Internet

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Post and Upload Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 12 as of this writing

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Reference Widgets

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Translators and the like

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References - Dashboard Widgets site - 13 Widgets as of this writing

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Schedules Widgets

Bus, Movie, Train, TV and so on

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Schedules Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 29 as of this writing

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Search Widgets

Google, Amzon, Yahoo and other sites

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Searching Widgets - Dashboard Widgets - 83 as of this writing

Search Widgets - 6 at this writing from Dashboard Exposed site

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Utilities Widgets

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System Utilities Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 65 as of this writing

Utilities Widgets - 6 more at this writing from Dashboard Exposed site

Utilities Widgets - 10 as of this writing - Dashboard Exchange site

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Weather and Traffic

Live Traffic Feeds, Weather, Maps, etc.

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Weather and Traffic - Live Traffic Feeds, weather maps, etc. - 39 as of this writing.

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Web Widgets

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Web Widgets - Dashboard Exchange site - 23 as of this writing

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Miscellaneous Widgets

Everything else not included above

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Miscellaneous Widgets - Dashboard Widgets site - 77 as of this writing

Miscellaneous - Dashboard Exchange - 5 as of this writing

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Google Image Search Widget

The Best Mac Dashboard Widgets - By Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes Magazine

iClip lite wins DashboardWidgets' Mac mini contest!

Widgets of the week: Game time - By Dan Frakes - May 27, 2005

8 of the Most Useful and Interesting Widgets - By Arik Hesseldahl, Forbes Magazine - In slide show format.

10.4: Enable the decimal key in Calculator widget

10.4: Cut down on the World Clock widget's CPU usage

10.4: Some extra features in the Weather widget

10.4: A folder-to-widget Automator workflow

10.4: A simple Widget installation AppleScript

10.4: Use Google Maps with the Address Book widget

10.4: Change the Stickies widget's colors

10.4: Add Phone Book widget search results to Address Book

10.4: Add custom units to the Unit Converter widget

Widgets of the Week - New feature at MacWorld site

Weather and Traffic Widgets - Categorized - 14 different ones as of this writing

System / Disk Utilities - Widgets posted to Apple site.

10.4: Use Google Maps with the Address Book widget - MacOSXHints site

Games Widgets - Categorized - 20 different ones as of this writing

Dashboard Movie - Watch this Dashboard Online video over at the Apple site.

Dashboard Tips - From MacOSXHints site

Introducing Dashboard - From Tidbits site

Ihnatko's Tiger Report: Dashboard - Mac Observer site

Tiger Primer: Dashboard - Article on the MacWorld web site.

Dashboard Widgets Resources - Nice site, even mentions a book on Dashboard widgets.

Dashboard Widgets website! - Dashboarder.com - Already we have a website for these!

Widget Lineup - Another nice site with full explanations of existing widgets, forums and more.

Dashboard Share.com - Share your own widget. Also tutorials, FAQ’s and other info on Dashboard widgets.

Developing Dashboard Widgets - Apple Developer site

Switchblog - A cool blog from one who switched and is loving it - Lots of resources to Widget and other Tiger Mac articles.

Briefly: Debugging Dashboard widgets, Dashboard shelf's image - Dashboard Widgets site

Widgitopia

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Other known Dashboard Widgets some of these may or may not be included above.

You can rate and comment on each of these Dashboard Widgets

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Itemized Widgets - 89 Widgets with Descriptions and download links Below

Freeware unless otherwise stated

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  1. GOES widget 1.0 by ckoven

  1. Worldview 1.3 by hihagen

  1. Flags 1.0 by hawkinnovations

  1. Marquee 1.03 by dreamflask

  1. LiveWidget 0.99 by CraigStanton

  1. Magnifier 1.0 by ackiboa

  1. Woot.com 1.1 by TrilogyOfThelma

  1. AirPort Radar 1.01 by macwireless

  1. Gmail 1.0 by aidos

  1. Buddy List 1.0 by admanimal

  1. Air Traffic Control 1.0   - Wifi network finding widget.

  1. A Couple of Artists Photo Finder Dashboard Widget

  1. Amnesty Widget Browser 0.65b  - Allows for widgets in the menubar.

  1. Apple Search 1.0   - Search Apple discussions/downloads/manuals/support.

  1. BatteryStatus Widget 1.0.9 - Battery charge monitoring widget.

  1. BibleSearch 1.0   - Widget to look up verses in the Bible.  

  1. Bloglines Notifier for Dashboard - 1.0 -  widget Bloglines RSS feed notifier

  1. bonSearch 2.5 - l et's you choose between Google, Yahoo!, AltaVista, MSN Search, Ask Jeeves, dmoz, A9, Webcrawler and the information database at Wikipedia to do a search.

  1. Colorado Lottery Widget 1.0 - Check recent drawing in the Colorado lottery.

  1. Coras 1.2 - Unique Gmail notifier widget.

  1. Countdown Calendar 1.0   - widget counts down to a specified day

  1. Creatures In My Head 1.1   - Widget displays 200 wicked creatures.

  1. Cube - 1.02 - widget puzzle game from the '80s

  1. Daily Dose 1.0 - widget displays latest image from photoblog

  1. DailyVerse 1.0a - A bible verse for your dashboard.

  1. DaiseyTracker 1.0 - DaisyTracker is a Dashboard widget that displays the Word, Quote and Joke of the day

  1. Dashblog 0.8b - Blogger weblog posting widget.

  1. Dashboard Widget Xcode Template 1.0   - Develop Dashboard widgets

  1. Dasher 1.0.1 - automatically brings up Dashboard when your Mac is idle

  1. DashLicious 0.5b - Read about this Dashboard Widget at download site

  1. Dash Monitors 1.2   - Graphical Dashboard system resource usage widget - Shareware

  1. Dash Shopper 1.0   - Amazon product search.

  1. Digidesign Search 1.0   - Widget searches M-Audio & Digidesign sites.

  1. DoppleViewer 1.2 - USA doppler radar widget .

  1. eBay Widget 1.1b   - eBay search widget.