Dashboard

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Dashboard is a really useful app. It includes widgets, for some of your mac applications, like address book and iCal which allows you to access your contacts, and view your iCal events, without having to switch over the Full Application. You can add more Widgets if you want to, or create your own Widgets. Widgets are the things you add in to your dashboard that you use.

Contents 1 Opening Dashboard 2 How Can I add more Widgets? 3 How can I get rid of Widgets? 4 Widget List

Opening Dashboard

You can open dashboard by:

• Pressing the F4 button on your computer
• Changing the settings in Expose
• Swiping the trackpad with 4 fingers (you can only do it with Lion)

How Can I add more Widgets?

1. Open Dashboard( By pressing the key F4, swiping the trackpad with 4 fingers (Lion), or by just simply clicking on the dashboard icon in your dock)
2. The click on the 'More Widgets' button in the Manage Widgets,
3. Go to the Apple Dashboard download webpage. From there you can add more widgets.

You can also download widgets through this website. You can pick through different categories like, just for fun, music and T.V, travel, and games. The widgets can entertain you, anywhere and anytime! Some of the Widgets you can get are:

• Pong clock-Tells you the time in a different form
• Wallify-Makes your screen saver your desktop picture too
• 3D Dash board dice-Puts dice on the screen to use

And many more!

How can I get rid of Widgets?

1. Be sure that the Widget Bar is displayed,
2. Then click the unwanted widgets close button (the round, black button with a white X).

Widget List

This is going to be a small list of the 'standard' widgets that come with all mac computers (as of 18/1/12):

• Clock: Unsure of the time? Have a quick peek at the dashboard clock!
• Tile Game: The only game that comes stock with a mac computer.
• Weather: Its so cold!! Not sure what is the temperature, well then check out the weather report!
• Calculator:You can do basic sums on this simple calculator
• Dictionary, Thesaurus and Apple: Easily look up words in the dictionary, get more exciting words in the thesaurus and get a small definition of Apple software and hardware in the Apple dictionary.