Leopard comes with a nice collection of Dashboard Widgets.
However, you can add more widgets to meet your needs.
A few of my favorite widgets:
- Calc Board is the ultimate calculator and more.
- iStat Pro allows you to monitor everything about your Mac.
- EasyEnvelopes is just what it implies, an easy way to print envelopes.
- Lists is a simple to-do list manager.
There are plenty of great widgets around for you to download.
The Apple
downloads page is the best source.
You can also create your own Widgets.
There are two methods:
- You can cut a snippet from a web page and turn that into a Widget using the "Open in Dashboard" button on the Safari toolbar. This creates a very simple Widget view of the web content.
- A more complex Widget is nothing more than a JavaScript based client that uses an Apple supplied script library for special functions.
Apple's Dashboard Programming page is the best source for details.