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Apple used to have a fully automated method to download and install Mac widgets. While the automatic aspect of the process is gone, you can still add additional widgets to your collection, using Apple’s old, and no longer supported, Dashboard download site. Here’s how: Open a Finder window and browse to the /Library folder.
Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) ushered in a new feature called Dashboard, a cool application that hosts and runs Widgets, small lightweight applications that can be summoned with a click of the mouse or a keystroke (hotkey). By default, Dashboard is configured with the following four widgets in Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Tiger: Calculator.

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Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) ushered in a new feature called Dashboard, a cool application that hosts and runs Widgets, small lightweight applications that can be summoned with a click of the mouse or a keystroke (hotkey).

By default, Dashboard is configured with the following four widgets in Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Tiger:

Calculator
Calendar
Clock
Weather

Apple provides you several widgets right out of the box. For example, you can enable ones to check stock prices, flight information, sport scores, and more. You can download additional widgets directly from Apple or third parties application vendors/suppliers. In fact many software vendors who create software for the Mac also include widgets that can be installed and enabled on your Mac.
It doesn't stop there, you can even create your own Widgets. In Mac OS X Leopard, the functionality of Dashboard has been extended to allow you to create widgets directly from any web page.
Launch Dashboard

A default installation of Mac OS X will include the Dashboard icon. on the Dock You activate Dashboard by clicking the icon or hitting the F12 (default hotkey) key on the keyboard. An animation occurs where Dashboard launches on top of anything visible on the desktop, the screen dims the screen as widgets appear.

Close Dashboard
You can close Dashboard by either clicking the appropriate hotkey (often depends on the Mac model and revision), by clicking on a shaded portion of Dashboard, or by clicking on the Dashboard icon in the Dock. Dashboard will close by disappearing to once again show you a bright Desktop as it exists underneath Dashboard.

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First introduced with OS X Tiger in 2005, Dashboard organizes Mac widgets — program shortcuts and precursors to apps that we are all more familiar with. Many of these widgets still come as part of the standard package with every Mac and new operating system.

Dashboard is useful to keep close at hand. Mac widgets include contacts (which you can sync with iOS contacts), to calculators, flight trackers to stock market information, the weather app, games, and a wide range of extra tools you can add when you tap the + icon in the lower left of the Apple dashboard.

If you want to take a look at what you can access via the Dashboard, here is the complete list of 1703 Widgets currently available and supported. Now, here is how you use the macOS Dashboard to improve your productivity.

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Since MacOS Yosemite was launched, Dashboard is something you may have to enable to use. On Macs using an older operating system it is something that automatically sits in the Dock.

To enable Dashboard:

Go to System Preferences > Mission Control
Click the Dashboard pop-up menu

Here it gives you options for how Dashboard appears:

As Space: Dashboard can inhabit its own area of your Desktop. Get to it when you press the keyboard shortcut for Dashboard, or move between spaces. There are a few other ways you can use space on your Desktop which we will outline below.
As Overlay: Dashboard occupies a permanent space on your Desktop (which you can switch off via Mission Control).

Now that Dashboard is enabled, there are several ways you can access it (and set shortcut to give you access quicker). Access Dashboard through one of the following shortcuts:

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Use Launchpad > Open > Dashboard.
Using Siri. Open Siri in the Menu bar and ask “Open Dashboard”, or something similar.
If you have set Dashboard as a space, use a Trackpad to access. Simply swipe right with three fingers.
In Mission Control Preferences, set a Mouse or keyboard shortcut; then use that to access Dashboard.

Now you can use any of the widgets you need, and add any as needed using the Add button ‘+’ in the lower-left corner of the screen. Remove them using the ‘-‘ minus symbol.

How to use Dashboard as a web monitor

Go to the website(s) you want to monitor. Choose File > Open in Dashboard.
The page or website will grey out, opening a purple border around part of the page you want to monitor.
Now you can adjust the size of the border around the web source.
Tap ‘Add’ and it will take you to the Dashboard with the source website pulling the information through to your Mac, making a shortcut to a specific website for quicker monitoring.

How to close Dashboard on Mac

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When you want to close dashboard, either click anywhere on the screen and the widgets will fade, or press the escape key, or use the mouse, trackpad or keyboard shortcut to close.

Dashboard is also incredibly useful for monitoring website you want to keep an eye on. Whether this is the status of a delivery or recent Amazon order, or a news outlet you read often.

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