How to Add Widgets to Mac OS Tiger Dashboard

eHow

2009-12-09

Widgets are useful mini-applications that perform a variety of tasks in in the Mac operating system OS X.
Some applications from previous versions of OS X were changed into widgets for the Tiger release. You should know how to add widgets to the Tiger dashboard and also how to manage them so your computer doesn't get too cluttered. Open up the dashboard application. It's the icon in the dock that looks like a speedometer but has icons instead of numbers. You can also find Dashboard in your applications folder on your hard disk.
1.Go into the dashboard preferences, located under the "file" menu in the program. You can select which widgets are displayed and how they appear in the preferences. You can also add new widgets here if you already have them installed.
2.Download some new widgets. Apple maintains a large database of company and user created widgets at its website (see Resources below). Here you can browse new widgets and download the ones you want to add. Read More