Once you’ve switched over to the Dashboard layer, click on the plus-sign-in-a-circle icon in the lower left corner to call up the Widget Bar, where you’ll see an alphabetical, graphical list of all the widgets installed on your Mac. That said, if you’re used to the way Exposé makes application windows appear and disappear, switching to and from the Dashboard layer should quickly feel like second nature. Along with a Dashboard icon in the Menu bar).

Actually, they’re about as related as your Desktop picture and your screen saver-which is to say not very.

From there, it will automatically be available the next time you’re in Dashboard.īecause Apple has put Dashboard’s preferences in the Exposé preference pane, it’s natural to think the two have something in common. When you see an alert warning you that your download contains an application (pictured below), click “Continue” and the widget will move itself into ~/Library/widgets/. Wherever you get your widgets, Apple’s done a little behind-the-scenes magic to make them install themselves: If the site you’re downloading from has done its work correctly, you should be able to click on a link in your browser and download the widget.

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