Wednesday, September 10, 2008

8 Great Dashboard Widgets

Dashboard Widgets were the popular small apps that Apple Community talked about before the iPhone showed up. They still great for grabbing information quickly and these widgets will save you from a lot of navigatioting of your mac. Here are eight I found very useful.


iStat Pro - This widget is great for geeks who want to keep tabs on what going on with their computer easily. This lets you track things like your CPU temp, hard drive space and net connection speed. Additionally this widget let you customize the color and notifies you when their is an update for it.


Delivery Status - With this you'll be able to track your online orders and other packages going through the mail.

TV Forecast - Always know when a new episode of your favorite shows will be on with this. This widget will give you the day and time of the next 5-20 new episodes of your shows.


Sports Fan - The ESPN widgets that come with OS X would be great for getting scores if only they constantly updated and gave more than then the actual score and period. For the true sports fan their is Sports fan which not only has constantly updated scores with more in depth info but also standings. This widget cover Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey at all different levels.


Scoreboard - For the baseball fans that wants a widget that gives more info, this has what bases have runners and the ball, strike and out counts in a game in addition to the score.


This Day in History - History buffs should enjoy this widget that tells you both major and minor events that happened on the current date in years past.

Widget Update - Most widgets don't tell you when an update for it is available. This will check all your widgets to see if they are up to date and give you links to download the newest version for old ones.

Application Update - If you want to keep the non-Apple programs on your Mac up to date then use this which works just like Widget Update.

Got your own great widgets you would like to share, leave the name in the comments.