Posted by Mark in Tutorials
I had a very bizarre situation last week where my Mac Dashboard started experiencing freezes, and when the Mac Dashboard freezes your widgets just do not work!
I’d never come across it before and, after some digging around on plenty of forums I was advised that if my Mac Dashboard is not working, it could be an issue with a corrupt preference file.
Mac Dashboard Freezes / Dashboard Not Working – The Solution
Open up: home folder > library > preferences and delete: com.apple.dashboard.plist.
Now restart your Mac and all of your Dashboard widgets should be reset to default and working again.
Thanks to Barry More >
Posted by Mark in Blogging
This is a fun little post, I use the Paymo Mac dashboard widget to track my time on client jobs, blogging and so on. I have this on my Mac Snow Leopard dashboard which is fantastic.
The only problem is that sometimes I forget to either start the timer or stop the timer when I start / finish work on a particular task. The reason for this is that the Paymo widget is on my Mac Dashboard and I just simply forget to bring the dashboard up, because it isn’t there in my face yelling at me to do it.
To aid this More >
I’ve been looking at the best Mac dashboard widgets to help me speed up my web design and development cycle. I’ve a few Mac dashboard widgets already in place but they’re all gimmicky really.
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After coming across various widgets I stumbled across a fantastic blog post by SpeckBoy entitled “30 Mac Dashboard Widgets for Web Designers & Developers” – and it’s a little treasure chest. Some of the best Mac dashboard widgets are laid out for you to qcuickly check out and download.
There are some little gems on here, especially the following:
