Apparently some widget makers have got that message, and are concentrating on “useful” as opposed to “cute”. This level of scrutiny is good practice, because it also screens for garbage. This is a pretty tough consumer base to impress, and the widget makers risk being considered banal, not to say superfluous, if their widgets aren’t up to scratch.Īpple has also put in a quality control in the form of their Staff Picks for widget downloads of both freeware and demos.

Most MacBook users are Apple fans, and it’s not like they don’t have access to a lot of useful built-in and easily available stuff already.

Ironically, MacBook users are likely to be the most highly critical of obsessive/compulsive widget production. The “novelty widget” approach is rapidly becoming notorious for providing consumers with a lot of one-trick wonders that don’t do much, or do it well. What’s predictable is that there are so many of them that making an informed choice could take a week. Some are quite useful, and others are fun. It’d be a bit too catty to suggest that these widgets are entirely predictable. Some are the computer support type of widgets, others are just plain old widgets for consumer personalization.ĭo check out the Apple Macbook Applications, which are the best for Mac based computers. Some of them are highly functional, others are definitely in the “Hmmm….?” category. MacBook has literally thousands of them for the dashboard. Apple isn’t exactly apps-shy, and the same applies to widgets.

Apple mac dashboard widgets