There are a number of ways that you can hide the Dashboard you can hit F12 again, activate any of the Exposé functions, Cmd + Tab out of the Dashboard (note that the Dashboard doesn't appear in the Cmd + Tab list of applications), or just click on an empty portion of the Dashboard.
Hitting F12 will slightly dim your actual desktop and bring into the foreground any and all active Dashboard widgets. Thus, using F12 to bring up Dashboard seems to just fit. You'll remember from my previous articles (or by simply being an OS X user) that, by default, function keys F9 - F11 are mapped to Exposé. This brings up yet another question, how do you pull up your Dashboard? By hitting F12, of course. Instead, all you have to do is pull up the Dashboard and you get the information that you need - all without cluttering up your actual desktop. The Weather widget itself is nothing more than a client interface to, where it gets all of its data, but the widget itself saves you from visiting that website just to get today's weather. For example, Tiger comes with a Weather widget that tells you the current and 6-day forecast for any area. To me, a Dashboard widget is a small application that would normally clutter up your desktop, yet provides one specific, but very useful task. This then begs the question, what is a Dashboard widget?Ī Dashboard widget can be anything, but for the sake of providing an actual definition, I'll say what a Dashboard widget means to me.
Touted as one of Tiger's major features by Apple, you can think of Dashboard as another desktop, but with one very strict limitation - the only items that you can put on the Dashboard are Dashboard widgets.
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