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Again, full credit for this tip must go to the great folks at Maclife.com This simple tip allows you to pull a widget out of dashboard and place it on your desktop, which is really kind of cool.

To make it happen, open a Terminal window and enter this command

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES

You will have to logout and log back in or restart your Mac to make the change active.  Then activate Dashboard and click/drag the widget you want, and then exit Dashboard without releasing the click on the widget.  The default key is F12, but you’ll want to make sure you know what it is on your system.  On mine with the Logitech Illuminated Keyboard and Logitech’s Control Center to make the Performance Mouse MX work properly it is Command-F12, so again check your system settings in System Preferences just to be sure.  You can also send the widget back by selecting it and then invoking dashboard.  To disable this feature use the same command replacing YES with NO.  Logout and back in as before to make the state change effective.

Dashboard widgets moved to the desk work the same as they did in the Dashboard.  The only caveat is that if you use Spaces, the widgets you have dragged out of Dashboard will appear on every space.

FUN

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