Apple disabled the Dashboard by default yet again in OS X El Capitan. Here’s how to enable it and get it back just like before. The Dashboard in OS X hasn’t been the most popular feature of Apple’s ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

“The first thing I do when I buy a new Mac is ‘$ killall Dock’ to stop the resource sucking widgets,” Enso Cloud tweeted at me last week. “Does anyone actually use Dashboard widgets?” Chris MacDonald ...

Dashboard gets a Launchpad-style widget organization feature in this summer's release of OS X Mountain Lion, offering a standardized user interface that will be more familiar to iOS users. Dashboard, ...

It's not just major applications that are getting updates in Mac OS X Leopard. Apple has updated and expanded the Desktop, Spotlight, and Dashboard, adding new features, graphical flourishes, and new ...

Apple has quietly disabled Dashboard by default in the seventh beta of OS X El Capitan, an unsurprising move given the ten-year-old widget feature on Mac has not been updated in over four years and ...

Conflict with Helvetica Neue Several users have noted an issue where text becomes unreadable in Dashboard Widgets when the font Helvetica Neue is installed. When the Helvetica Neue font is present, ...

First Off - having the Dashboard occupy its own space, instead of as an overlay, completely undermines its utility. I thought the whole point of it was easily glanceable information, for both the ...