When you need a good reference for shortcuts, the xCuts widget will probably have what you’re looking for - right on your Dashboard. Remembering all the keyboard shortcuts Mac OS X has to offer is just about impossible. Lesser known songs lyrics may not be available, but for the vast majority of popular music it works great. All you need to do is play a song in iTunes, launch Dashboard, and the lyrics will automatically display and copy right into iTunes. Harmonic makes it extremely easy to get lyrics to your favorite songs. This widget will quickly get album cover art from Amazon’s large database for the currently selected songs in iTunes.
If a song or album isn’t for sale in iTunes, no cover art for you. ITunes automatically downloads album cover art for your music, but only if you have an iTunes account and if they sell the music in your library. At a glance you can check your CPU & RAM usage, available hard drive space, network status & speeds, internal temperatures, fan speed, battery levels, current processes, and more - all with a great, elegantly designed interface. The ultimate widget to get an overview of everything that’s going on with your Mac. Of course, not everybody’s favorite can be included so if there’s one you feel should be added to the list, let us know in the comments! Our list of 12 must-have widgets covers a wide range of categories, which should appeal to pretty much everyone looking to get the most out of their Mac experience.
With that said, a good widget can be both fun and useful. The Dashboard metaphor worked for widgets before and it could work again, but I’d love to see Apple make the desktop the Dashboard, letting users mix files, folders, and widgets the same way I can mix apps and widgets on my iPhone or iPad.Most Dashboard widgets are useless pieces of crap. Bringing back Dashboard is an obvious solution here, and I’d love to see it make a return. I couldn’t agree more with Stephen’s conclusion:Īpple needs to rethink this and let this new class of widgets breathe, being able to use the entire screen like the widgets of yore could. Widgets’ lack of interactivity on the Mac is compounded by the fact that they share a panel with notifications and are hidden behind a click on the menu bar’s clock. Dashboard gave users access to Apple and third-party widgets: single-purpose utilities that were a lot like the widgets on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac today, except they were better because they were also interactive. On 512 Pixels, Stephen Hackett argues that Apple should bring back Dashboard, a macOS feature that disappeared with Catalina.
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