After over 14 years, the feature is about to ride off into the sunset for good.
It's kind of odd to think that it was a precursor to Steve's iPhone vision. Originally, he intended for the iPhone to run web-apps rather than have an App Store, and Dashboard was a collection of glossy, skeuomorphic, web-apps with rounded rectangular icons and charming-but-cheesy animations.
Two years before we had this:
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We had this:
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Steve demoing Dashboard for the first time in 2005.
Looks like some dev will be gettin my money for making an alternative for this!
Honestly I forgot it was even still there.
See my post above. Try Convertos.I will miss the Unit Converter the most.
I use it daily as a world clock (9 clock widgets for all the locations that I have team members in). It helps when trying to find an optimal time to schedule meetings when everyone is spread all across the globe. I am open to suggestions on apps to replace this functionality.
All these eliminations of core services is necessary for the transition to ARM processors and a convergence of macOS and iOS. It won't be long until the dock is eliminated and eventually the finder in the next few itterations. Launchpad will probably replace the dock in the next macOS.
Very sad! I use it multiple times a day to quickly check on stocks, weathers, packages at a click of a side button on my mouse to have it slide in as an overlay and back out in seconds. Will be something that may make me hold back updating along with the quick editing features of QuickTime 7.
I don't really use it any longer. Like some old t-shirts.![]()
Spotlight does it. Keyboard shortcut for spotlight, then type "2 lbs in kg" or whatever.Bye old friend. I've used it nearly every day since Tiger, and when I read it was disappearing it was a little sad as I still remember the excitement back then during the Tiger keynote. I've moved a few things in to the notifications bar, but I'll miss Dashboard in its overlay mode. It would of been nice if they left it in the OS disabled by default for those of us that still used it daily
Any suggestions for a Notifications area replacement for the Unit Converter?
World clock in Notification Center's Today tab?I use it daily as a world clock (9 clock widgets for all the locations that I have team members in). It helps when trying to find an optimal time to schedule meetings when everyone is spread all across the globe. I am open to suggestions on apps to replace this functionality.
Looks like some dev will be gettin my money for making an alternative for this!
You can use Spotlight for most things.I will miss the Unit Converter the most.
I use it multiple times a day to quickly check on stocks, weathers, packages at a click of a side button on my mouse to have it slide in as an overlay and back out in seconds.
That's no good! I added a hot key so I can use the feature daily. It makes it so simple to access Calculator, Stickies, and Conversions.
I use it daily as a world clock (9 clock widgets for all the locations that I have team members in).
Likewise, I access it multiple times a day for quick thesaurus and dictionary usage while I’m writing, calculator access, weather updates etc. and will definitely be delaying updating.
Information at a glance without needing to load an app, obviously.
I suspect you are also confused by what a notification centres purpose is.