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Feb 07, 2012 Mac OS X Lion Skin for Windows 7 4.0 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows 10 PCs but also without a hitch on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Before Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, when Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground. Like application windows, they can be moved around, rearranged, deleted, and recreated (so that more than one of the same Widget is open at the same time, possibly with different settings). Aug 29, 2017 Windows 10 doesn’t have any widgets so this skin, through Rainmeter, looks to fill the gap. This skin perfectly mimics the Windows 10 UI; the widgets look great regardless if you have a light or dark background, and this is also one of the few skins on this list that has variable sizes for its widgets.
We always look for a kind of software that can give us live information without running them every time we want to get the information and that’s when Dashboard Widgets come into the play.
So what is a Dashboard Widget?
A Dashboard widget is a little piece of software that sits quietly on your desktop and do gives real-time information. For example, a weather widget gives you information about the weather outside. A timer widget gives you information related to the timings.
Some of the cool stuff that dashboard widgets can do are:
- Reminding you to carry an umbrella when the weather looks rainy outside.
- Display chats and messages from the your loved ones on social networking sites
- Displays the lyrics of your favourite song so that you can hum along with the tune
Widgets help us in so many ways. So, we went back into time and observed how widgets were and how they are now and compiled up a list of the most popular widgets available in the Market. This list also contains some widgets that are not available anymore but they have influenced the Mac widgets in a significant way and need recognition. So, here is the list of-
Most popular Mac desktop widgets of all time:
iStat pro
iStat pro is a must for every geek and Mac power user out there. This system monitoring dashboard widget consists of 9 sections that contain all the important criteria that are needed to make your Mac run smooth. The Widget shows information on CPU, hard drives memory, IP, external IP, bandwidth, battery, CPU temperature, Mac uptime, temperatures and fans condition.
iTunes lyrics widget
Itunes lyrics widget lets you look for the lyrics of songs being played via iTunes in a floating window. The widget can be customized and can provide you lyrics in different languages ranging from Japanese to German.
Answers Widget
Answers widget or commonly derived from answers.com drawn from Wikipedia, American Heritage Dictionary, Roget’s Thesaurus, and Columbia University Press Encyclopedia as well as maps, company snapshots, stock prices, legal, medical, nutrition, and various quality sources.
Oxford English for mac
When you download Oxford English widget, all the information from the server gets downloaded locally into your Mac so no internet connection is required for this widget to work. Oxford English widget gives you access to Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary of Current English where you can ask anything that you’d have to waste time looking in the dictionary and searching it out.
Temperature Monitor Widget for mac
Temperature monitor widget looks out for all the key temperature changes in your Mac CPU and displays it so that you can take necessary action if any part like the processor is overheating. You can look the temperature change for things like battery, various locations on the enclosure, the heat sink, hard drive, and each CPU core. So,if you’re a heavy mac user or play heavy games on your Mac, this is a great choice to go for.
CallWave Text messaging Widget:
The Widget sits in your widget screen and lets you SMS anyone in the USA for your carrier rates. The Widget integrates with you Mac Address book and can sync all your contacts. All you have to do is choose a number, type a message and hit send. Later, Callwave gadget was added that lets you send SMS from Google and Yahoo Homepage.
MySpace One-click widget:
Long before there was no Facebook and Twitter, there was a social network called MySpace and guess what the widget did ? As the name suggests, the widget gave you access to the social network’s cool feature by a single click. The widget notifies you every time you get a message in your inbox. Yes, that’s right, So that you don’t have to log in every time via your browser.
The Weather Channel Mac Widget
You can never forget your raincoat if you get the 36-hour weather forecast right on your screen. The widget takes in your location and shows you the live weather conditions for your location. It also notifies you whenever you get severe weather alerts in your area. It was developed by the Weather channel interactive. It quietly sits in your menu bar and takes care of the rest of the things happening in the universe that make your day.
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Mac Os X Widgets For Windows 7 Desktop
Before Starting with here are the Requirements for Installing Windows 7 on Mac OS X.
Windows 7 DVD. Get the Direct Download links for Windows 7 RC. Mac OS X Leopard DVD. Mac OS X with at least 15 GB free space. (15 GB is for the Windows 7 Installation). - Download the latest version of Boot camp to
install Windows 7 with Mac OS X leopard. Download latest version of Boot Camp from here. - It is recommended that you back up your important files first before proceeding with the
installation of Windows 7 on Mac OS X Leopard.
So let’s start the steps to
- In
Mac OS X Leopard take the boot camp manager from applications. - Now we need to allocate the space for the
Windows 7 Installation on Mac OS X Leopard. - The below Window appear in Mac after you press
continue. - Make a point that you need to give enough space available for
Mac OS X Leopard. Windows 7 installation normally takes 4.5 GB of space. So you only need to allocate 15 GB or 25 GB space for Windows 7. You can allocate more space if you wish to install more software’s on Windows 7 after its installation. - Now press on Partition (see above) in the Window.
- If every thing has been done correct you will now be able to see the boot camp software’s icon on the
Mac OS X desktop. - Insert the Windows 7 installation DVD into your drive and press Start Installation.
- You won’t be able to able to see
Windows 7 installation in the list because in the latest version of boot camp software only up to windows vista in updated. - Your Mac OS X will now reboot and you will see the partitions that are available.
- Click on the boot camp partition and press
Format and the Windows 7 installation will start eventually. - Soon after its installation it will reboot now take out the
Windows 7 installation DVD right now itself. - The system will boot into the Windows 7 installation. You can now customize the various options such as the display, time zone, language etc.
- For the installation of device drivers insert your Mac OS X DVD into the drive.
- Now you will see the Boot camp installer popping up and select “install Apple software update for Windows “.You can connect to the internet for your driver’s updates, Windows 7 Updates etc. After the installation is complete your system will restart now.
- During the restart process push the options key and you will be able to see the
multiple boot options for Mac OS X Leopard and Windows 7 as shown.
Enjoy the newlyinstalled Windows 7 Operating system with Mac Os X Leopard.
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