Running widgets outside of Dashboard

Posted on August 12th, 2006 by Administrator


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Today Freemacware reader Fred wrote to ask if there was a free alternative to Amnesty Widget Browser, a $20 application for running Dashboard widgets outside of Dashboard. I don’t know of any free application like Amnesty, but there are two free methods for running widgets “outside” of Dashboard, both from Macosxhints.com:

1. Detach widgets from the Dashboard. You can run Widgets directly on the Desktop, instead of having to push F12 (or whatever your Dashboard activation key is) to see them. You can bookmark them like any web page for quick access.

2. View Dashboard widgets in Safari. Since Dashboard widgets are built of HTML, CSS, and Javascript, you can view them in a web browser. Actually, it probably needs to be Safari since many widgets have Safari-specific features.

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3 Responses to “Running widgets outside of Dashboard”

  1. Samuel Press Says:
    August 15th, 2006 at 8:55 am

    I think the the Yahoo widget engine is worthy of a mention too. Many excellent widgets, although not the same ones for dashboard.

  2. JoseJimenez.net » Blog Archive » Widgets en el escritorio Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 1:31 am

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  3. Nathan Says:
    August 26th, 2006 at 8:47 pm

    You may also want to look at this website

    http://mooglets.freewebsfarms.com/

    much more like dashboard than anything I’ve seen, uses ajax, but its still in beta. (they have a warning saying it may crash your broswer…)

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