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
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Widgets Watch
By Charles W. Moore
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Widget Watch - Tuesday, July 26, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Monday, July 18, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Tuesday, July 5, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Thursday, June 30, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Monday, June 27, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Tuesday, June 14, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Friday, June 17, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Monday, June 13, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Tuesday, June 7, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Tuesday, May 31, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
Widget Watch - Thursday, June 2, 2005 - By Charles W. Moore
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Widgets of the Week
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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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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
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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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Air Traffic Control 1.0 - Wifi network finding widget.
Amnesty Widget Browser 0.65b - Allows for widgets in the menubar.
Apple Search 1.0 - Search Apple discussions/downloads/manuals/support.
BatteryStatus Widget 1.0.9 - Battery charge monitoring widget.
BibleSearch 1.0 - Widget to look up verses in the Bible.
Bloglines Notifier for Dashboard - 1.0 - widget Bloglines RSS feed notifier
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.
Colorado Lottery Widget 1.0 - Check recent drawing in the Colorado lottery.
Coras 1.2 - Unique Gmail notifier widget.
Countdown Calendar 1.0 - widget counts down to a specified day
Creatures In My Head 1.1 - Widget displays 200 wicked creatures.
Cube - 1.02 - widget puzzle game from the '80s
Daily Dose 1.0 - widget displays latest image from photoblog
DailyVerse 1.0a - A bible verse for your dashboard.
DaiseyTracker 1.0 - DaisyTracker is a Dashboard widget that displays the Word, Quote and Joke of the day
Dashblog 0.8b - Blogger weblog posting widget.
Dashboard Widget Xcode Template 1.0 - Develop Dashboard widgets
Dasher 1.0.1 - automatically brings up Dashboard when your Mac is idle
DashLicious 0.5b - Read about this Dashboard Widget at download site
Dash Monitors 1.2 - Graphical Dashboard system resource usage widget - Shareware
Dash Shopper 1.0 - Amazon product search.
Digidesign Search 1.0 - Widget searches M-Audio & Digidesign sites.
DoppleViewer 1.2 - USA doppler radar widget .
eBay Widget 1.1b - eBay search widget.