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Mar 31, 2011 Learn How to Add New Widgets to Your Mac's Dashboard. Use the left and right arrows at the bottom of the widget to navigate between pictures. Apr 22, 2016 How to Use Find My Friends on a Mac. If you want to try this out with a friend or family member, first activate the widget, then have either them or yourself share your current location from Messages on iPhone and iPad, share their location with you from the “Find Friends” app that is preinstalled on every iPhone, or from the Maps app on a Mac. Nov 19, 2017 Dashboard allows you to install useful single-function widgets on your Mac, for instance, the calendar, calculator, reminder, etc.However, they are only available in their own separate space, meaning that you have to go to that space to use them.
Notification Center Widgets
A widget is an extension that displays a small amount of information or app-specific functionality in the Today pane of Notification Center. For example, the Weather and World Clock widgets display the weather and time in the user's current location and others they've chosen. Widgets are highly customizable and can contain buttons, text, layout customizations, images, and more.
Design a glanceable experience. People use widgets to get brief updates and perform very simple tasks, so it’s essential to deliver the right amount of information and interactivity. Whenever possible, provide tasks that can be completed in a single step. Panning and scrolling within widgets isn’t supported.
Show content quickly. People spend very little time in Notification Center, so you don't want to make them wait for content to load. Cache information locally so you can always show recent information while getting updates.
Provide ample margins and padding. Avoid extending content to the edges of a widget. In general, use the default margins provided by Notification Center. Content tends to work well when aligned to the center of your app icon, located in the widget's title bar. If your app offers a grid-style layout, make sure you provide sufficient and equal padding between grid items. If possible, limit grids of icons and buttons to four per row.
Be adaptable. The height and information displayed by a widget depends on whether it’s collapsed or expanded (not all widgets support expansion). An expanded widget is ideally no taller than the height of the screen. When collapsed, a widget should show essential information that can stand alone. When expanded, a widget should show additional information that enhances the primary information. The Weather widget, for example, shows the current weather conditions when collapsed, but adds the hourly and weekly forecast when expanded. If you need a table view in your widget, be sure to use a table view that doesn’t include a scroll view.
Avoid customizing the background of a widget. The light, blurred widget background provided by the system is designed for consistency and legibility. Use it whenever possible.
In general, use the system font and system colors for text. The system font is designed for legibility. Choose colors that reflect the semantic meaning of your text, such as labelColor for primary text and secondaryLabelColor for less important text. When you use these system-provided colors, the text your widget displays automatically adopts the appropriate appearance. See Color and Translucency.
If it adds value, let people jump to your app to do more. Your widget should operate independently from your app. However, if people might occasionally need to do more than what your widget offers, make it easy to do so. Don’t include an Open App button that takes space away from your content. Instead, let people click the content itself to see or edit it in your app. In the Calendar widget, for example, people can click an event to open it in the Calendar app.
Never use your widget to open other apps. When someone clicks your app's widget to edit or view content, preserve their context and open only your app.
Pick a good widget name. An app icon and a title appear above each widget’s content. In general, your widget’s name should match your app’s name. If your app offers multiple widgets, however, consider using your app name for the primary widget and clear, concise names for the others. If you use a custom title, consider prefixing it with your app name. The inclusion of your app name instills confidence that the widget is provided by your app.
Let people know when authentication adds value. If your widget provides additional functionality when someone logs into your app, make sure people know about this. For example, an app that shows upcoming reservations might include a message that reads “Sign into App Name to view your reservations.” when they aren’t logged in.
Whenever possible, let people configure your widget in Notification Center. Forcing people to leave Notification Center to configure a widget creates a disconnected experience. For example, the Stocks widget includes an edit mode that lets people quickly find and add market symbols they want to track. An Info button is automatically added into the header area of an editable widget. When clicked, the Info button changes to a Done button, and the widget’s interface changes to present any available editing options.
For developer guidance, see App Extension Programming Guide.
Cocktail
Can you mix an, um, Apple Martini? Kamikaze? Or Piper at the Gates of Dawn? The free Cocktail widget powered by 7.com lets you impress buddies with your mixologist skills. Just type the drink you have in mind. Cocktail’s database includes nearly 7,000 drink recipes. Click Feelin Thirsty? for a random selection.
Countdown Plus
Steven Chaitoff’s simple Countdown Plus widget tells you how much time is remaining until a specified date, such as the newborn’s due date, your next vacation, your anniversary, or the day you’ll be paroled.
Daily Dilbert Widget
If you work in an office environment, you’ll love this widget, which delivers Scott Adams’ cartoon strip to your Mac every day. The latest seven comic strips are promised at any given time.
Daily Dilbert Widget
If you work in an office environment, you’ll love this widget, which delivers Scott Adams’ cartoon strip to your Mac every day. The latest seven comic strips are promised at any given time.
Mac Tips and Tricks
Mac Tips and Tricks does what its name suggests − it’s a springboard to tips on all things Macintosh, from listening to music through multiple speakers via AirPlay to fine-tuning the volume on your computer. Check out the widget for other tricks.
Movies
Want to know the flicks playing in the hood? Want to read a synopsis and view trailers to help you decide which to see? That’s just what Movies, a simple film fan widget from Apple, lets you do. Apple supplied the widget with OS X. It even lets you purchase tickets (via Fandango). It’s one of the widgets that has exhibited cranky behavior of late, so hopefully Apple will provide the, um, direction, it needs. In the meantime, anyone up for Hitchcock?
Power Switch
Press (or rather click) this single button in the Dashboard to make something happen on your Mac. What that something is depends on what happens when you click the “i” to configure the widget. You can put the Mac to sleep, log out, restart, or shut down, all after that single click.
You can fine-tune these actions. For example, you can place check marks that will close all Finder windows, empty the trash, eject network volumes, and secure the system. You can have the computer announce all these actions out loud too.
By dragging the slider, you can delay the start before the behavior takes hold, between 0 and 7,000 seconds after you press the button. The button itself will pulsate leading up to the start of the actions you requested.
Power Switch
Press (or rather click) this single button in the Dashboard to make something happen on your Mac. What that something is depends on what happens when you click the “i” to configure the widget. You can put the Mac to sleep, log out, restart, or shut down, all after that single click.
You can fine-tune these actions. For example, you can place check marks that will close all Finder windows, empty the trash, eject network volumes, and secure the system. You can have the computer announce all these actions out loud too.
By dragging the slider, you can delay the start before the behavior takes hold, between 0 and 7,000 seconds after you press the button. The button itself will pulsate leading up to the start of the actions you requested.
Quote of the Day
Widget For Macbook Air
“Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.” Edith Wharton said that. “A true friend is one soul in two bodies.” Aristotle said that. Start your day with the Quote of the Day widget for these and other pearls of wisdom and a photo or illustration of the person who said them.
Starry Night Widget
Want to know what you’re looking at in the evening sky? This interactive planetarium widget can reveal the answers. Click the “i” and then the Time/Place tab to enter your current whereabouts or some other location.
If you place a check mark in the Now box (assuming that it’s not already checked), you’ll be able to identify the galactic objects in the immediate sky. But you can also enter another date or hour — well into the future or deep in the past — to see how space appeared or will appear at that time. You can also display star and planet labels, and constellations.
Translate
If you need to quickly translate a word or phrase, the aptly named Translate widget provides a handy tool. You can translate words to or from English and Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Translate
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If you need to quickly translate a word or phrase, the aptly named Translate widget provides a handy tool. You can translate words to or from English and Chinese (Simplified or Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
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Word of the Day
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Improve your vocabulary with this widget, which serves up daily definitions from Merriam-Webster.com, Dictionary.com, UrbanDictionary.com, or any of the other sources that developer Code Driven lets you pick from.