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Mac OS X Widget pimps

#23 | 6:05 |

Pimp my PC

Thursday March 18, 2010

Lucas returns to the Apple camp to show some OS X love. He demos off a few of his favorite Apple Widgets, shows us where we can go to search for and find our own soon-to-be faves, and unveils an awesome Terminal hack to get Widgets from the Dashboard and onto the desktop.

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- Mac OS X Widgets

- Launch the Dashboard by hitting the hotkey or launching from the Dock.

- To add a Widget, click on the plus symbol in the lower left of the Dashboard screen.

- Click on Manage Widgets and then on More Widgets.

- Browse or search for Widgets and click on the Download link to install.

- Open a Terminal window; Spotlight search "terminal" if you don't already have Terminal in your Dock.

To get OS X Widgets on your desktop

- In the Terminal window, type in "defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES" without quotes.

- Drag the Widget you want to keep on your desktop, hit the Dashboard key and when you're back on your desktop, drop it.

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