By Tom on October 29, 2020
Thanks to everyone who took the time to take the poll regarding turning the dashkards widget into a real Mac app! I’ve taken the poll down and have been sorting through the responses. Around 150 Dashkards users took the poll and the average price they were willing to pay (given possible choices of $0, $0.99, [...]
Posted in General | Tagged mac app |
By Tom on September 14, 2020
If you use the dashkards widget on Mountain Lion, you’ve probably noticed the display problems on the widget’s back side. This is a bug that was introduced in Mountain Lion and so far I haven’t been able to find a fix. This issue and the limitations of Dashboard widgets in general have made it pretty [...]
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By Tom on August 1, 2020
I fixed the glitch that was causing the overly rounded corners in Mountain Lion. To update the widget, just head on over to the widget page and click the download button. There are two more issues I haven’t been able to solve though. Gatekeeper When you download the dashkards.zip file and unpack the contained widget [...]
Posted in General | Tagged mountain lion |
By Tom on July 26, 2020
If you are running Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), you’ve probably noticed that the widget is displaying a bit strangely. Specifically, the corners of the widget get rounded off so extremely that it obscures some of the content. I’ve identified the source of the problem and will be releasing a bugfix release of the widget [...]
Posted in General | Tagged bugs, mountain lion |
By Tom on May 10, 2020
In my quest to cover all the apps that come for free with Mac OS X, today I added a dashkard for QuickTime Player keyboard shortcuts. If you’re still using the old QuickTime Player 7 or QuickTime Pro, just add a comment if you’d like me to add those keyboard shortcuts too. As always, this [...]
Posted in New dashkards | Tagged player, quicktime, video |
By Tom on May 9, 2020
Today I added a reference cheat sheet for the nerds’ new favorite search engine: DuckDuckGo. It’s impossible to cover all the geeky things DuckDuckGo can do, so I focussed on the keyboard shortcuts available on the result page, the general search syntax and a selection of what DDG calls Goodies. Be sure to check out [...]
Posted in New dashkards | Tagged duckduckgo |
By Tom on May 2, 2020
The name of this app doesn’t really do its feature set justice anymore. Preview used to be a simple app for viewing PDFs and images, in its latest incarnation in Mac OS X Lion it has grown into an indispensable tool for viewing and editing several types of documents. And what’s best, Preview supports quite [...]
Posted in New dashkards | Tagged apple, lion |
By Tom on May 2, 2020
After a bit of a hiatus it’s time to add some new dashkards to this site. It’s not like I’ve already covered all Mac apps, not even close. Today’s new dashkard covers the keyboard shortcuts for Byword, a plain and rich text editor with Markdown support. Some also like to call it a “distraction-free writing [...]
Posted in New dashkards | Tagged editor, markdown |
By Tom on February 25, 2020
If you have an iPad and some sort of stand or mount for it, here’s a quick tip for using your iPad to permanently display the dashkards widget alongside your Mac without the need to open Dashboard. The first thing you’ll need is an app to turn your iPad into an additional screen for your [...]
Posted in Tips | Tagged air display, ipad, iscreen |
By Tom on February 24, 2020
The dashkard for Pixelmator has been updated to reflect changes introduced in Pixelmator 2.0. As always, the updated dashkard will show up in the dashkards widget automatically.
Posted in Updated dashkards | Tagged graphics, pixelmator |
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