Put your cursor over it, however, and a tiny little “i” shows up on the bottom right corner:Ĭlick on it and the entire widget swings horizontally around and shows you the “back”, where the configuration is accessible:Īs you might expect, just type in the city, state of your current location: Here’s the default Dashboard weather widget, as supplied by Apple (you can push F4 on your keyboard to get Dashboard, btw): Let me show you, with the weather widget. That’s what you’re facing, and the secret is to know that buttons appear when you put the cursor over the specified widget. I permanently have six spaces on my Mac and find it a splendid way to organize my workspace, but then again, I’ve used virtual screen systems for over twenty years, starting with early X Window System Unix boxes…Īnyway, Dashboard is a pretty cool feature but in their zeal to make it slick and visually beautiful, I fear that the Apple team might have made it just a wee bit more complicated than necessary. (Another one that precious few people seem to use but I love is Spaces. Still, I’m curious, do you, dear reader, use Dashboard on your Mac OS X system, or is it one of those forgotten features? I constantly forget about the Dashboard capability on my Mac, for some reason or other, and always have a sense that everyone else does too, but obviously not.
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