Figure 1: Widget-mania at the widgets bar.
The great majority of downloadable widgets are gratis. A few are available as shareware, meaning that you can try them out before paying. Whether you actually fork over the loot is up to your conscience, but unless you think the program is worthless, its creator should be rewarded for his or her efforts.
Some widgets are extensions to other programs on your computer, such as the ones that display data from iCal or your Address Book, or bring up blank Stickies.
But most widgets grab feeds off the Internet, so you need an online connection. Widgets in this category might tell you what's on the tube tonight or deliver a surfing report.
Here is some other widgets wizardry:
- If you hold down Shift while you press F12, the widgets will open or close in super-slow motion.
- If you hover over an open widget and press Command+R, the wizard twists like a tornado and refreshes itself. Any "live" information is updated.
- To rearrange widgets on the Dashboard area, just drag them around.
- You can display more than one of the same widget, which is useful, say, if you want to check out the weather or time in several locations. Just drag the widget out again from its hiding place in the widgets bar.
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