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Ever wanted any of the widget from the Dashboard to stay on your desktop? May be a weather forecast? Or a dictionary? I did. And was wondering why this could not be done on mac? Now after a bit of research I know how to do it and ready to share with you.

• Step 1. Open Terminal ( Applications » Utilities » Terminal )
• Step 2. Activate Development Mode by typing: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
• Step 3. Logout/login (or restart) to reload Dashboard
• Step 4. Open Dashboard (F12), then click on the widget you want and drag it a little bit
• Step 5. Without releasing mouse button exit Dashboard (F12 again) and voila, the widget stays on your desktop. A touch of magic :)

Now here is a bit of a drawback - the widget is going to stay on the top of all your windows all the time, which is not ideally what I would usually want, particularly when I work in Photoshop, but still I find it quite useful occasionally. May be there is another line of code you should type in the Terminal or may be this i something that will be implemented in Leopard OS … I honestly don’t know.

PS. Oh oh forgot one tiny funky thing. Click on the widget and then refresh it by pressing Command+R. oh it’s twirrrrrling! :)

PS2. Just in case you wonder how to take your widget back to the Dashboard - just follow the same root :)