Flashy way of loading a widget!
This is more a flashy tip than a useful tip, but here it is. First of all, you need to open dashboard and click on the "+" in the lower left corner to get the dashboard dock. Instead of clicking on the "+", you can also load that dock with "Command - =". When you load a widget from the widget dock at the bottom of dashboard, you usually click on the icon. This is the way I have always been loading widgets and that's what naturally made sense to me. There is a faster and mush flashier way to do it however. You can simply select the one you want and drag it to the dashboard. A nice animation will transform the icon into the right widget. What is faster about it is that you don't have to do this whole thing in two operations: clicking on the icon and moving the widget to where you want it. This is because you can drag the widget from the dock to the dashboard and you can bring it to the place where you want it directly. Here is a video screenshot showing this nice animation:
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
9/18/2007
16 Comments:
and, like most things apple, you can hold down the shift key to slow it down (and show it off.. :)
Hahahah, cool, I knew that one. In fact, the animation when you put it on the screen is one of the coolest things that catched my eye when I first saw a Mac. I love this. I didnt know about the holding shift thing working in here also, loved it :D
I didn't know you could slow that down with the shift key. (It actually looks pretty cool when you drag out the widget manager.) And something I discovered when playing with it, is that if you hold shift when you press the arrow to go to the next set of widgets, it will do that in slo-mo also. :D
In addition, instead of pressing the plus sign in the lower left hand corner of the screen, you can merely hit Cmd-+. (I posted about that here.
MacTipper
Cool, Loved this tip.
The first thing i ever learnt on a mac was that.
I've allways used the Drag & Drop method to add widgets... :/
you hold shift while dragging, it goes in slow motion
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That is Cool!
Great tip! thanks!
Hey, can you post one on how to navigate through tabs in firefox?
Salvatori_M:
Navigate quickly thru firefox tabs by pressing Ctrl + Tab.
It will navigate thru the tabs one by one.
And even better I think : navigating through firefox by pressing Command + [insert number] - then you can decide for yourself which number of tabs you want to go into. Like Command + 1 for the first of your tabs and Command + 9 for the very last of your tabs.
I had no idea you could tap the widgets to put them on the dashboard.
After downloading I just dbl click the widget and it adds it. I like this way the best.
the first thing i picked up about mac when i got my first one, was that everything could be dragged :) only found the nifty shift trick by accident rather recently though :)
how did you do the video screenshot??
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