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macOS Dashboard

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Dashboard is an application for Apples Mac OS X operating systems, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. First introduced in Tiger, it is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by clicking its icon in the Dock.

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  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
Discontinued

Discontinued since macOS Catalina.

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macOS Dashboard information

  • Developed by

    US flagApple
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    7 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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macOS Dashboard was added to AlternativeTo by ondrapelech on Oct 31, 2009 and this page was last updated Jun 18, 2020. macOS Dashboard is sometimes referred to as Dashboard.

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gdwaynewarner
Jun 6, 2020
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Dashboard was, at one time, pretty awesome! Unfortunately, somebody decided that it had to go, so Apple stopped emphasizing the Dashboard Widget pages, somehow managed to allow the information sources for some of the still-working widgets to be removed, and just left things a mess, sadly. I think the Weather widget was first to go, but there were a few other weather widgets that used something other than Yahoo or weather.com, so that was good ... but now the stock market widget has decided to go to sleep until somebody figures out how to access another data source. Thankfully, a few of them still work, like the scientific calculator I downloaded that doesn't rely on external data sources, but I'm sure those will die in the not-too-distant as well. Dashboard widgets. They were great while they lasted, and the Notification center just doesn't cut it for many.

What is macOS Dashboard?

Dashboard is an application for Apples Mac OS X operating systems, used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. First introduced in Tiger, it is a semi-transparent layer that is invisible to the user unless activated by clicking its icon in the Dock. Alternatively, the user can invoke Dashboard by moving the cursor into a preassigned hot corner, or by pressing a hot key, both of which can be set to the users preference.