I’ve fallen in love with Dashboard on my new Mac OS X Tiger system, but I hate having to type f12 to get them to show up. Is it possible to have my dashboard widgets show up on my regular desktop? It’s not only possible, but it’s pretty easy and darn fun! Here’s what you need to do… First, open up Terminal (Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal) and type in the following, exactly as you see here:
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