What is the DASHBOARD ?

There is a lot of new things in your mac, and dashboard is one of them. In the past a small company developped the same concept under PC with the name of "Konfabulator". On april 2005, with MacosX tiger (10.4), apple introduced that same concept in their latest OS. In the meantime, on the PC side, Konfabulator's guys were bought by Yahoo who changed their name into "yahoo widgets". The concept is the following: have some small applications rapidly ready at the touch of a key (default is F12, but can be changed), see/consult/use them and then make them disappear quicky again. This is done on a opaque surface that appears/disappears over the desktop. Everyone of these small applications are named WIDGETS. Visit the official site or others to get more of them.