So I made a few mistakes fooling with the weather widget and now I've
ended up with 4 different widgets. How do I get rid of the 3 I don't
want?
On Oct 23, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
It's pretty accessible as long as you know a few tricks to deal with
it. The main content of most widgets reads the way a web page does.
Do change the widget's preferences, you need to flip it over though.
The way you do this with Voiceover is to go to the bottom right
corner of the widget (i.e. last item). It should be an image. Route
the mouse to the voiceover with ctrl-option-command-f5 (if you have
the mouse following the Voiceover cursor you can skip this as you'll
already be routed) and click with ctrl-option-shift-space. When
you're done flip the widget back over by repeating this process. To
switch between widgets press ctrl-option-f2 twice, the voiceover
window chooser becomes the widget chooser while in Dashboard.
A side note: you can bring up Dashboard from anywhere by pressing
f12, though you can change this key if you want.
I haven't made a widget myself, so no idea how that's done.
OS X comes with a default set of widgets, one of which is a weather
widget. The issue with it though is that for certain areas it seems
to be inaccurate. I remember in Phoenix, when it was about 105
degrees out, the weather widget would say that it was 60 with a high
of 65 which I knew perfectly well it wasn't and yes, the measurement
was set correctly. Not sure where it gets its information, and I'd
have to think that it's been corrected by now as that was over a
year ago. It's accurate for me now, but I'm in a different area.
Give it a shot and see how it works for you.
On Oct 23, 2008, at 14:04, Dan Geise wrote:
hello all,
I was playing arround in the applications folder and found a app
called dashboard. I went into safari and looked it up and I guess
you can make your own widgets...Does this work for us and what kind
of widgets do you all have, It would be nice to have a weather
forcast and perhaps one that apple recomended was one to get food
recipes. what do you all think.
thanks dan
