One of the few dislikes many have with Dashboard Widgets is having to switch back and forth between the Desktop and the Dashboard just to see the widgets.

However, there is a little known dashboard feature that allows you to make the widgets you select appear and stay on your desktop.

Just type the following command into a Terminal window (use NO instead of YES to undo this property change):

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

Then restart the dashboard application by typing the following:

killall Dock

Now if you click and hold a widget in and hit F12 to return to the desktop, you can drop the widget onto your desktop and it will stay there. The widgit will sit above any other application windows and will always be immediately available, no F12 required. When you are done, just drag it back to the dashboard with the same technique to return it.

Pretty simple eh? Do you know of any other Dashboard or Widget hacks?

[Place OS X Dashboard Widgets on the Desktop]

Tags: apple mac os x, mac os x, os x, dashboard, widget, widgets