Chapter 18. Putting Information at Your Fingertips with Dashboard
Rather than reach for a paper calendar, a clock, a newspaper weather forecast, or a pocket calculator, you can use a program called Dashboard that comes with every new Macintosh.
Dashboard provides a variety of simple programs, called widgets, that you can pop on the screen at any time and make disappear at a moment’s notice. You can be typing in a word processor, run Dashboard to view a calendar or check a sport score, and then shove Dashboard out of the way again to keep working in your word processor. If you need information at your fingertips, you’ll find Dashboard a valuable asset when doing anything with your Macintosh.
Project goal: Learn to use and modify Dashboard to view ...
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