This LifeHacker page discusses it: īasically you use an app called Fluid to create a custom container app for a website of interest and then “pin” it to the menu bar for easy access. I think I may have found the workaround I was thinking of, though. Very handy for many monitoring uses, though mine is primarily to display minute-by-minute weather station data from a couple of sources. It then shows up where you put it in Dashboard, with the contents refreshed every time you open Dashboard. With Dashboard, you can browse to a website in Safari, go to “File > Open in Dashboard…” and basically “snip” a portion of the displayed website to convert it into a custom Dashboard widget. Did you find this useful? Did you do it a different way? Let us know in the comments below how you’ve replaced the defunct Dashboard on your Mac!Įvernote’s great for saving static versions of websites for later reference, but here I’m talking about displaying frequently updated “live” graphs and tables. Thats’ it! We now have access to cool new widgets right within a swift move of the mouse to the top-left hand corner that reveals the “Notification Center” and allows us to visualize important info in a matter of seconds. These don’t necessarily appear on the “Notification Center” but they’ve got their own widgets on the Menu bar so between them and the “Notification Center”, we now have access to the info we need quickly and easily. We found the “Euler’s Unit Converter” app that comes with a widget, we used the “Weather” widget directly into the “Today’s view” for weather forecast, the “Hour – World Clock” widget in the App Store for time in different places in the world and added more like the built-in “Calendar” widget. Then, we proceeded to find replacements for weather & unit converters widgets on the App Store. You can edit widgets by clicking the button at the bottom of the “Notification Center” and choose among the ones available. That’s where you can find what’s going on in your world today. We started to use to the “Notification Center” by going to the black Apple on the Menu bar on the top left corner > System Preferences > Mission Control > click the “Hot Corners” button at the bottom then selected “Notification Center” as the top left hot corner. We then started a hunt for alternatives and we found one that may work for you too. This allowed many carefully arranged widgets to provide valuable info like time in different time zones for our team members & clients, weather forecasts in many cities we travel to on a regular basis, unit converters and more.īut after macOS Catalina, Dashboard disappeared to our dismay! See, we were using “Hot Corners” to show the Dashboard with a swift move a the magic mouse to the top left corner of our Mac. iBackup 7.0 is freeware, and as most mobile device owners are only too well aware, it’s a nice, reassuring thing to have handy during those panic attacks when you’re wondering what’s happening.Were you a fan of your Dashboard widgets on Mac? Sad to lose them after upgrading to macOS Catalina? You’re not alone…Īpple has decided to get rid of the Dashboard so cherished by some of us around the world but we found alternative solutions that made the trick for us. iBackup 7.0 A very straightforward, non-garbage approach to adding some insurance to your MacBook, from well-known company Grapefruit.Others may be out of their depth, so it’s an each way option for neophytes. The screen is well organized, and it includes some support for sound systems like Pioneer, not a waste of time or effort for the guys trying to make a living.
This is shareware, but it must be said that if you’re a DJ, something this portable has a few things going for it. PCDJ Dex 2.1 Getting into the Reasonable Suspicion Of Attempted Cuteness Zone in theory, PCDJ Dex 2.1 isn’t really a schlock approach to get wannabe DJs interested.The tabs include Sales, Alerts and Expenses, so it’s also a de facto cashbook if you need one. The demo is a large download, nearly 70MB. Most professionals usually inscribe the records of submissions on stone tablets, so this is definitely a step up. The Writer’s Scribe 2.0 This is an interesting thing which allows writers to track their submissions.Things like this are useful for portable systems, which can get neurotic with heavy usage and when the memory gets highly loaded. Made by App4mac Inc, and comes with graphic indicators and a screen which looks like a sound recording screen. Checkup 2.7.1 An app which checks and monitors the CPU, memory network adapters and disk drives.A few samples of widgets which are indicative of the benchmarks: