I'm a former windows user and I'm still learning about OS X. I hate installing programs that leave behind all kinds of files though, especially when they slow your system down like in windows. I'm wondering, when you download, install, and then uninstall widgets, do files get left behind afterwards?
View 2 RepliesI'm looking for something similar to the windows vista sidebar ( the 'widgets' on the right hand side of the desktop. The mac ones are all pretty much different sizes and it dosn't give that ' neat look'.
Also, how do I place a widget onto my desktop?
i am having trouble running a dashboard widget on my desktop. i have the program deeper and i have it working all set but here is where the problem lies.
when i place it on the desktop it puts it on top of everything. thats annoying as hell. how can i put it on the bottom layer of my desktop?
for example if i was in photoshop, its on the top layer, i need to put it on the bottom.
how do i go about doing this?
I just got a MacBook, I am trying to debate between getting MS office for apple or IWorks. I come from a PC so I know how MS Word works, one of my coworkers insists not to install MS office on my MacBook because it will clog the whole system and will be unbearable. I have access to the MS office for apple and I would have to buy IWorks. I mainly need Word for my resume and for school work. Any one has had any experience with MS Office for apple, will I encounter all those problems my co-worker says I would have?
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ITunes, Mac OS X (10.7)
I make good use of dashboard. I use the calculator and unit conversion tools every day. I also have the TV program and my internet usage tracker displayed always. These are the only four widgets I have on my dashboard 90% of the time. Over the past year I've noticed the dash becoming slower and slower. Earlier this year I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger hoping this might help (and help boost the computer in general) and while I have seen many improvements, dashboard keeps feeling slower and slower.
E.g. I want to do a simple sum in the calculator. I use a hot corner to activate the dashboard and the calculator is unresponsive for 5-20 seconds, same goes for the unit conversion widget. When I do this many times a day I find it frustrating and that it slows my workflow down. I've taken to my handheld calculator again but would prefer to use dashboard for ease of use. I'm running a MBP 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB memory and Mac OS X 10.6.4 if that helps.
So I like to set up my dashboard with 3x weather widgets, since we have microclimates here where I live and iStat pro to monitor the system.
The problem is, the weather and iStat widgets like to move when I open up dashboard. When it refreshes, the position gets somewhere else, usually lower or upper. I have to 'killall Dock' to refresh the dashboard to its original position.
Does anyone know how to keep the dashboard widgets permanently on the desktop...or is it possible at all.Leopard 10.5.6
View 1 Replies View RelatedAbout a week ago my widgets stopped loading, and only one of them is by a third party. I tried removing that one, but it was not the cause.
I tried disabling all of them, but the manage widgets window froze.
I opened activity monitor, and forced the unresponsive dashboard to quit, but it would just reopen and become unresponsive again.
While the dashboard is crashing my computer processors become dominated by this, and the computer gets very hot. The only way to get it to stop is to restart.
I have a macbook pro, that has been perfectly fine since i got it in december, I can't think of anything I have done recently which would have caused the widgets to suddenly start failing.
I have noticed that if I wait long enough (like an hour) some do load, like the post-it and the calendar. But even still, they are unresponsive.
Is it normal when you open up dashboard and some widgets are displaced? My weather widget is not in same place as where I put it and it overlaps some other widgets. I know I can just move it back but is this normal?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I want to transfer my user-folder from the ssd drive to normal drive where all my data should be stored. Rewriting should not be good for ssd drives, so I want to use it only for apps.One try to do it already failed with the result destroying the user I tried it with.I have the latest OS X lion.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
can't download new widgets to dashboard. screen will take me to downloads,but for safari or itunes
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Several months ago, I went though my widgets collection and removed a number of 3rd party widgets that I no longer use or that don't work any more. I used the standard method for doing this .. i.e., 1) opened the dashboard, 2) clicked the "+" button to display all of the widgets, 3) click the "-" button to make them "jiggle" and have the "x" appear in the upper left corner of each widget icon, and then 4) clicked on the "x" associated with the widgets that I wanted to delete. All went fine, no problems at all, and I had a much trimmer collection of widgets. Ah, heaven.
A couple of weeks ago, however, I went to the dashboard and all of the widgets that I had previously removed had returned to my collection. Further, I could no longer remove them in the manner that I describe above. When I got to step 3), the previously deleted widgets would "jiggle" but no "x" appeared so that I could re-delete them.
I tried a couple of solutions that I found for other / similar issues posted here on the ASC such as deleting the dashboard cache and preference files, logging out, and re-logging back in (nothing happened). Then, I went to the Widgets folder of my Library folder (User/Library/Widgets) to simply delete the unwanted widgets directly. To my surprise ... not a single one of the deleted widgets exists in this folder! All of the widgets that I kept are located here ... but not of the removed widgets are here.
I performed a spotlight search for both other "Widget" folders and the titles of the deleted widgets themselves and found nothing.
Another odd thing is that the so-called "removed widgets" that remain in my widget library are still functional. I have checked the other user accounts on the computer and none of the "removed" widgets appear in these accounts.
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iMac (20-inch Early 2009), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have a new mac OS 10.6.1, and the dashboard doesn't work. It opens, but the widgets aren't working.
Any ideas as to how to fix this?
However recently I've been discovering trying to access my dashboard for on the fly notes and weather, flight and movie listings, however within the past month they start randomly disappearing. I have the 4 default plus stickies plus the flight tracker and the movies one (all built in) and when I try to re add them they show up for a split second and then disappear again.
This is a August 2007 MacBookPro 2.2Ghz 2gig ram 8600 running Tiger 10.4.10. No external display or peripherals other than a mighty mouse and hte power adapter. I have 3 user accounts on the system, The main admin one (which never is used, and is preserved), My Standard non-admin account (having the issue) and a family account for everyone to use and access (Standard, non-admin). It only appears to happen on my account alone.
I have reset safari and I still cannot create widgets of any kind from Safari 4.0.2. My understanding is that you size the box around something and then go to ADD, whereby it should take you to the dashboard. In my case I hit ADD and it does nothing. I have tried repairing permission, reseting safari, creating a new login and tried Safari from there..
View 1 Replies View RelatedSuddenly I find that when I right click all my dashboard widgets appear on screen. I would like to revert to the system where I could right click and then choose things like attach, save etc etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy dashboard (widgets) keep popping up and disappearing unbidden with annoying regularity (like it's happening every few seconds at times). I'd rather fix rather than disable since I use several regularly. iMac (6 years old) running Leopard.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I cannot seem to remove widgets that I have added to my dashboard. Also, I am looking for a good tutorial for how best to use the dashboard. I'm still getting used to my MacBook Pro and all its capabilities.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4), Widgets
Recently something changed on my Macbook Pro and my widgets are not saving their location in Dashboard.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Newbie post - os x 10.5.8. Every time I activate my dashboard widgets, a new safari window pops up with an old webpage I visited 6 months ago ??Any way to rectify this annoying thing?
View 2 Replies View RelatedFeature request for combining the new presented notification center widgets and the old dashboard widgets and its designated space with the special F4 key.
Feature request to consider turning the old dashboard into a fullscreen notification center with multiple columns and grid-based resizing of widgets.
Let users decide what the launchpad/dashboard/F4 key would act like.
The upper right corner notification center button. One click for sidebar, two clicks for full screen notifications center.
Right now the old dashboard is pretty much useless with its ancient widgets. And launchpad is rather useless with the new Yosemite Spotlight.
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OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
Can I move the clock and calendar widgets from the Dashbouard to my Desktop screen - not the 'Dock.
I note I can buy alternative versions for the Desktop from the app' store.
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iMac
Is there any way to turn webclip widgets into normal widgets or standalone apps? With or without a 3rd party app or enhancement?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have lost the dashboard app. Having upgraded my os on my brand new iMac I was having issues with my dashboard, and have -apparently- trashed my dashboard.app file. The dashboard is still working, but I don't seem to be able do find the app anymore.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can't download any widgets from apple's dashboard widget download page.I click on the "download" button of a selected widget, and it immediately takes me to the homepage of all apple downloads without doing anything.I've tried on safari & firefox, but the same thing happens.I just bought this computer the other day, so I'm running the latest versions of everything.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
When I try to install iTunes 9 I get the following message: "System extension cannot be used. The system extention "/system/library/extensions/CDSDAudioCaptureSupport.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update". ITunes installs anyway - even if I leave the message there without clicking "OK". I have verified my disk and repaired the permissions - yet still pops up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy mom re-invented herself and decided to use my laptop..thats fine with my but she got this ability to mess up with stuff so i created an account on my MB so she can log in under her name but my account is in english and hers not..how do i install two firefoxes in 2 different languages? When I install FF when logged in as she it will change the localization of my FF.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI loaded a trial version of MS Office 2007 for a college course. After the fact I remembered I purchased already a full version for my iMac. Once I removed the trial version from my Mac Pro and installed the full version, I continue to get a err message stated "this id doesn't support this version of enterprise". I removed and reinstalled the full version several times with no success. I need (I believe) to install the full Office 2007 for school projects. Or is their a good alternative to ensure all facilitators can view/open, and edit all of my submitted work.
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