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Friday Favorites: Unit Converter

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 2nd, 2011)

Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that we feel is indispensable. To me, Dashboard feels like the forgotten relative of OS X, the one that sits quietly in the back of the room during the family reunion that has ...

Mac 101: Use web clippings to put a Mickey Mouse clock on your Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 8th, 2011)

Dashboard has several fantastic features, including the ability to turn any web clipping into a widget. Macworld readers decided to use this feature to grab the functioning Mickey Mouse clock from the iPod nano home page and use it on your desktop. Here's how to recreate it: Visit the iPod ...

MeLLmo's Roambi Flow will create interactive business documents for iPad

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 16th, 2011)

We've taken a look at MeLLmo's Roambi in the past and were fairly impressed with the instant interactive visualizations created for business data and statistics. With Roambi, you import data created in another program or system (often Excel or another CSV-based spreadsheet program for personal ...

Dashboard: Irrelevant in the age of iOS or gaining new life in Lion?

by Steven Sande (Apr 30th, 2011)

The blogging crew here at TUAW headquarters frequently gets inspiration from emails that we receive from developers and hardware manufacturers. As a perfect example, the inbox the other morning contained some information about an upcoming iOS app that syncs to a Dashboard widget. Fellow blogger ...

iPad 2 already installed in Ford F-150 truck

by Mike Schramm (Mar 14th, 2011)

It's been a while since we've seen an iDevice embedded in a vehicle, but the wait was worth it -- the guys at SoundMan Car Audio have placed a brand new iPad 2 in the dashboard of a new Ford truck, and it's pretty glorious. You can see the whole process after the break -- they set up the ...

Oxygen Audio's O Car deck turns your iPhone into a car stereo

by David Quilty (Jan 10th, 2011)

Like the idea of having your iPhone with you in your car, but looking for an alternative to a Bluetooth transmitter or cabled hook-ups? You may want to check out the Oxygen Audio O Car stereo deck, which basically turns your iPhone itself into your car stereo. Brought to our attention by Gizmodo, ...

Control a car's interior via a dashboard-mounted iPad from Visteon

by Keith M (Jan 7th, 2011)

Visteon doesn't have the first idea for integrating an iPad into an automobile in some way, but it has arguably the most ambitious one so far. At this year's CES, Visteon brought forth their iPad dash product which not only integrates into an auto's audio controls, but it has the ability to ...

Solved: The case of the missing .Mac widgets

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Back in April of 2005, Apple released the much-awaited Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" OS. One of the big new features of Tiger was Dashboard. The overlay feature supported Widgets, mini-apps that were the descendants of Mac OS 9 Desk Accessories, and that some might consider the precursors to modern iOS ...

MeLLmo's Roambi delivers business intelligence on the go

by Michael Rose (Nov 4th, 2010)

When talking iPad with enterprise users, one of my favorite show-off apps for the iPad is MeLLmo's Roambi. It's a little hard to explain what it does, but once they see it in action, they know they want it. Roambi (free on the App Store, pro/enterprise plans available) gives you instant, easy ...

Calculator's currency calculations currently kaput

by TJ Luoma (Oct 29th, 2010)

OS X's built-in Calculator.app has built-in support for currency conversions. To get accurate results, you have to update the currency exchange rates from inside the application. This feature is currently broken for many users, as I discovered after it wouldn't work for me. Several threads on the ...

DashPad brings the Dashboard to the iPad, sort of...

by David Winograd (Aug 19th, 2010)

DashPad (US$9.99) takes a unique approach to putting a Dashboard on your iPad. Instead of using an app, (which would never get approved by Apple), or jailbreaking, it uses Safari to serve an iPad specific page that contains eight widgets. More widgets will be coming, according to DashPad's developer ...

Four widgets for learning

by Sang Tang (Apr 7th, 2010)

While the app store ecosystem for the iPhone, and now iPad, are filled with a host of useful apps to help students convert, translate and calculate figures and words, there may be times where an iPhone or iPad app just don't fit into your workflow. Back when Mac OS X Tiger was launched, which ...

iPad app previews aplenty all across the Web

by Mike Schramm (Apr 1st, 2010)

We're seeing tons and tons of news about iPad apps dropping now, and we're still a few days away from launch. In addition to our own coverage, here's a bunch of the other previews we've seen popping up around the community: This iVerse Comics app looks excellent, and it's one of the first ...

Dashboard for iPad concept app

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 29th, 2010)

TechCrunch found this sweet app by Carnegie Mellon student Rich Hong that puts Dashboard on your iPad. As you can see from the video above, it appears Hong has successfully ported Mac OS X's Dashboard directly to the iPad, though it is missing some of the iPhone's built-in apps like Calculator, ...

Three ways to disable Expose and Dashboard

by TJ Luoma (Mar 26th, 2010)

A friend wrote to ask: Is there a way to turn off Expose without opening System Preferences, clicking on each drop-down menu and selecting the -- option? Because sometimes I just don't need it. Or it confuses my Mother. Or my advisor. To be clear, she knows that she could go to System Preferences ...