Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) saw the introduction of Dashboard and Widgets. Dashboard is the name for the holder of the widgets. Widgets are small applications and utilities that perform common tasks and can display information from the Web in a quick matter.

If I am being honest I really do not use widgets all that often. I occasionally use the calculator, use the weather widget and I have downloaded a to do widget which I will review in a future post.

To access your widgets you can either click the Dashboard icon found in your dock or use the key or mouse option that you set in System Preferences. Simply go into System Preferences, select Dashboard and Exposé and choose the appropriate options under the Dashboard section. For myself Dashboard set to launch on F12 (I believe this is the default).

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