Dashboard is an application for Mac OS X (starting with 10.4 "Tiger") that allows users to perform small tasks in mini-applications called "widgets". Activated by clicking the icon in the Dock, a semi-transparent layer appears over the desktop and widgets pop up.

WidgetsEdit

Widgets are small web pages housed in a .wdgt package that can be created with Apple's Dashcode widget creation software (included with Apple's Xcode, downloadable from here). The stock widgets are:

• Address Book
• Business
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Dictionary
• ESPN
• Flight Tracker
• Google Search
• iTunes Controller
• Movies
• People Finer
• Phone Book
• Ski Report
• Stickies
• Stocks
• Tile Game
• Translation
• Unit Converter
• Weather
• Web Clips
• World Clock

More widgets, third-party developed, are downloadable from Apple's Dashboard Download Page.