Run some third-party Dashboard widgets in 10.3.9

Jun 09, '05 08:16:00AM

Contributed by: robg

If you're still running 10.3.9 (as Steve noted on Monday during the WWDC keynote, that'd be "most of you"), and want to see a bit of the Tiger experience, here's a (free for now) method of doing so: by installing Mesa Dynamic's Amnesty Widget Browser, you can run most third-party widgets (Apple widgets excluded, of course, since you won't have them) on 10.3.9.

There are some issues, of course, but according to a friend who tested this for me, most of them work just fine. Since the Amnesty Widget Browser is in public beta, it's free for now -- it will be released as shareware in its final version. Finally, if you decide to remove it, here are the removal instructions.

I tested it under 10.4, and it's a handy little application for managing widgets, but (mainly due to some of the noted issues above), I prefer to just use Dashboard itself. But if you're in 10.3.9, it's the only way I'm aware of to use third-party Dashboard widgets, many of which are quite useful (alternative solutions welcomed in the comments!).

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