MacBook’s Dashboard allows you to display and use widgets with the press of a button. Widgets are small applications — dubbed by some as “applets” — that typically provide only one function. For example, Dashboard comes complete with a calculator, dictionary, clock, weather display, and quick-and-simple calendar. You can display and use these widgets at. Widgets used to reside in Dashboard, which arrived on the Mac back in 2005 with Mac OS X Tiger. There they remained until the launch of Mac OS X Yosemite in 2014, when they moved to Notification.
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Dashboard Widgets
Download these Apple Dashboard widgets to your desktop:
SunsetCountries
Thesaurus
States
Photo Finder
Slideshow
Language Translator
Limits
Last.fm Radio
Webcams
SpeedyMarks
Day
Globe 3D
Picasa Web Album
Web Checker Widget
Web Monitor Widget
Countdown Widget
Calendar Countdown Widget
World Clock Widget
Google Logo Widget
Basket Ball Game Widget
System requirements
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
Sunset
This widget helps to calculate the sunrise and sunset times for each location in world on each day of the year. Enjoy planning your next holiday, trip or photo session where ever and when ever you want to go. Just click on the location on the map on backside, choose date and timezone and optionally add 1 hour daylight saving.
Don't miss the App version:
Countries
Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the world is this country? This widget shows each country of the world on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.
Don't miss the App version:
or test your skills with Country Quiz:
Thesaurus
Retrieve the synonym for every word. If available you will get antonyms, related terms, similar word and user suggestions too. Tap one of the results to start a quick new search for that term. As well it keeps a history list of your search terms. Thesaurus service provided by words.bighugelabs.com.
Don't miss the App version:
States
Do you ask yourself sometimes, where in the USA is this state? This widget shows each state of the USA on the map. Either select it from the list or jump around randomly.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
or test your skills with State Quiz:
Photo Finder
Get inspired by finding out what photos others have shot on a certain location. Adjust the map to the area you want and get the most popular or most recent photos from Panoramio. You can put this application as a widget on your website from http://photofinderwidget.speedymarks.com
Don't miss the mobile version at photofinder.speedymarks.com
Slideshow
This widgets displays slide shows from images in RSS feeds. Either select the most recent feed from Flickr or Photobucket or enter your own feed URL. The feed can parameterized by using %s in the URL which will be replaced by the tags from the front side.
Don't miss the mobile version at phototags.speedymarks.com
Language Translator
Translates any text between different languages using Googles language translation service. It can even detect the source language.
Please Update: Google changed its language translation service. It's no longer free. In order to keep the popular widget working we are willing to cover the cost of 33000 translated characters per day. You need to download the latest version in order to keep using it.
Don't miss the mobile version at translator.speedymarks.com
Limits
Add values until you reach the predefined limit. Use it e.g. to check your the daily calories you eat, your weight or your expenses.
Don't miss the App version:
Last.fm Radio Widget
Listen to your favourite music from Last.fm. Choose your personal radio stream either by artist or tag.
Webcams Widget
Now you can stay in touch with your home, famous places of the world, the current traffic conditions and much more by watching your favorite web cameras. This widget makes it easy to monitor web images which are continuously updated (like web cam pictures). It can update the images periodically. The images don't have to be produced by web cams. You can monitor any image which is updated over time like weather radars, traffic maps and so on.
Please check WorldWatchr for more.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
SpeedyMarks Widget
This widget lets you create visual bookmarks for your favourite websites.
Please check SpeedyMarks for more.
Day Widget
Simple but effective daily calendar in a large and small size. Never miss again todays date and lookup dates in the past and the future.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
Globe 3D
Every desktop needs a globe and so does your dashboard. This globe shows the earth in 3D. In addition you can see the moon, the sun and all other planets.
The globe is provided by Poly9 FreeEarth.
Picasa Web Album
Displays slide shows from public and private Picasa Web Albums. Just enter the Picasa album URL on the backside. You can change the size and background color of the widget.
Web Checker
Do you find yourself checking the same web sites all over again and again for new and updated content? Then this widget is for you. It checks the content of a web page periodically and throws an alarm when it has changed. Instead of complete pages it can check just subsections too.
Web Monitor
Monitors your servers or any other web site. The widget checks the response time periodically with a HTTP HEAD request which doesn't put much impact on the server. It shows a response time chart, response time statistics and has an error log where you can see when and why requests to the server failed.
Don't miss the App version:
Countdown
The mother of all countdown widgets. Set date and time of the event and it shows the time left. In addition to single events the counter can be repeated daily, weekly, monthy or yearly which advances automatically when the alert goes off. It's the perfect widget for reminders on single events, lunchbreaks, weekends, paying your monthly bills or birthdays and holidays.
Please check Countdownr for more.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
Calendar Countdown
Countdown widget which shows the upcoming events from any Google Calendar. Any public and private calendar can be the source for this counter. It advances automatically to the next event after each alert.
Please check Countdownr for more.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
World Clock
A Digital World Clock with sunrise and sunset times. Select your location and timezone and enjoy the animated sky background. Click the location title to see a demo. Click the time to switch between 12/24 hour display. Click the info to flip between date, sunrise/sunset and timezone.
Please check WorldClockr for more.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
Google Logo
Did you see the special Google logos on certain days? This widgets let's you watch the current logo so you will never miss one again.
BasketBall Game Widget
Shoot at the hoop for a quick game of basketball.
Don't miss the iPhone version:
For any technical questions about downloading or using our Widgetop Widgets please contact us on: developer@widgetop.com
Free Dashboard Widgets are a new widget kit package for you in order toenhance visual quality of your excel dashboard.
We will present you how to create a thermometer dashboard widget in Excel.
A thermometer graph indicates you the level of a target has been reached.
These can be pictures, objects made by shape technic, battery charts, infographics or even animations.
The common trait in all of these is that they able to spectacularly improve the appearance of a simple Excel template.
So the primary advantage is the support of the data visualization.
Other important feature is (and this is also why we make dashboards), that the analysis of the displayed information lasts a lot shorter than to check through a table / chart containing several hundred lines.
In today’s article we cover template design using shapes. The creation of these doesn’t consume a lot of time and yet they can be applied in many fields.
Free Dashboard Widgets – Thermometer
To develop a thermometer chart in Excel, we need two values. One cell need to show the actual value, and the second cell is the goal value so it will calculate the percentage.
We prepared the thermometer shape and the scales in Illustrator.
Here are some free alternatives to edit vector shapes for example Inkscape for Windows or DrawIt for Mac.
OK, what’s next? Just define a column graph then you can use the clustered column subtype.
Select the vertical axis and right-click to get the ‘Format Axis’ window then in the scale tab of the ‘Format Axis’ panel, set min value to 0 and max value to 1.
It is very important to eliminate all the unnecessary elements from the chart (title, background, lines). Now fit chart to vector shape! That’s all! How it works? You can download the sample Excel workbook.
Dial tool to create KPI Templates
The Dial Widget is a simple but smart chart it can be very efficient if you calculate a actual / plan (actual / target) status in percentage.
We’ll use three cells.The first cell contains the plan value (120), the second cell contains the actual value (101), the value of third cell will be calculated based on actual / plan(actual / target) values.
The doughnut chart help us to visualize the gap.If you need more support, be sure to get in touch with us. You can download the dial mini chart using this link.
Score Meter Chart
The scoring tool is nothing else than an improved version of a Thermometer chart. We have divided the interval between 0% and 100% into 5 equal parts, and marked them with different colors. Every single interval determines a quality indicator from ‘bad’ all the way to ‘excellent’.
By looking at the picture you can see this chart doesn’t need too many explanations. The currently set value is shown by a blue arrow marker. Use this link to start the excel training!
Excel Dashboard Widgets
We have come to the last chapter of our Excel Gauge Widgets category. It doesn’t mean they are out of date we’d just simply like to take new direction that will contain at least as many useful templates as before.
In the past years we had manyspeedometerand other chart tools in our articles we think we close up with a “4 in 1” Excel Gauge Widget collection. We hope you will create many many excel dashboards by the models here, now everything is given for this.
We have gotten this from the bottom of the toolbox. Today we talk about four completely different structured tool, we hope you will like them.
Quarter style speedometer
This speedometer style isn’t too common but very useful. Just imagine that annoying situation that you have planned and created the dashboard and at the end we notice we had run out of space and only the point is missing.
The Scale settings part is the same in all the here introduced free dashboard widgets, you can set the usual KPI color chart in the Red-Amber-Green lines.
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We recommend you that after downloading the template try to modify the values this way you will learn the fastest the knowledge needed to operate it.
Circle style speedometer
Here is the classic speedometer, can not be absent from any dashboard so we don’t talk about it lengthily.
Although there is one change that resolve the previous restrictions (that was sometimes a little bit annoying). The scale can not only be set between 0 and 100, but you can set it for arbitrary values, the widget will set to the new values.
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We have used this format on many dashboards and were always successful. Of course there are always counter-arguments / doubts about its use we have read articles that didn’t have good opinion about it. We think it is mostly from lack of creativity and persistence.
Semi Circle Style Dashboard Widget
Interesting of the second speedometer that values can be given in %. So far this wasn’t typical but there are many key performance indicators (KPI) can only be defined in %. Some examples: First call resolution, Customer Satisfaction, Percentage of Calls Abandoned, Operational Efficiency and many many more.
If you use these indicators in the business life, then this speedometer is the best for creating perfect dashboards.
Blinker style speedometer dashboard widget
And for last let’s see something really special! The speedometer on the picture has an extra feature. On the bottom of the gauge there is a blinker that’s color-scale / color-value is free to change.
In the first part of this article we said we will end this series. This is of course not permanent if we find something new then we will immediately publish that.
There is an unforgettable part of every article and that is the download section. Thank you for visiting our excel blog! Stay tuned.
The 4 in 1 dashboard widget is availableon this link.
Many thanks for joining us today; we hope you will improve your excel skills using our tutorials and free dashboard widgets!
Free Dashboard Toolkit
In this article we will share you how to use our lightweight free dashboard widgets to create great but simple and fast presentations using free toolkit.
Our idea of a perfect dashboard to stop spending too much time at work.
What do you think about? If you are thinking of making a business dashboard template use our free resources. Try this widget pack to setting up your business goals!
Traffic Light widgets
We will show you how to set up traffic lights in Excel to show the actual value. We don’t need to use conditional formatting to highlight project status or KPI status.
Follow these simple steps to put value in a cell to visualize your data.
Mac Dashboard Widgets
Click the left cell (Red) and insert the maximum value for red light. Click the next cell (Yellow) and insert the maximum value for yellow light. If the entered actual value is between 50 and 80 the light will be yellow. Under 50 the light will be red.
Try to enter a number between 80 and 130 and the light will be green. It can be useful for you to create a well-designed kpi dashboard or balances scorecard template.
Speedometer chart collection
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We will show you how each type of speedometer works on this excel dashboard template. You can configure the yellow section. The color yellow indicates that the KPI Gauge has a value between 45 and 100.
The largest value in a range 150. Between 100 and 150 we indicate the maximum area of key performance indicator using green. Just enter a value into the input cell and the needle will show you the actual performance.
The picture below show you how to change the scale up to 270. The method for setting up the gauge is same as the first. The speedometer highlights information about the process or target by which range is selected.
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