3 Useful Dashboard Widgets

Ever since the inclusion of Dashboard in Mac OS X Tiger, thousands of third-party widgets have been created to this point. Some of them useful, some of them quite pointless. So far, 5 have kept their stay on my Dashboard, two (Junior Mint, MAMP) of which were complementary widgets that were a part of other pieces of software, so I won’t be counting those ones.

1. ColourMod Dashboard Widget
   

   The ColourMod Dashboard Widget has really been a time-saver for me. It’s purpose is to replace that time consuming task of opening up Photoshop just to use the colour selector to find values of a colour (hex, rgb, etc.)
   As you can see, it provides all the information about a colour which you can select straight from the widget. It’s great for when making stylesheets, and the cost is even better, it’s free.

2. Vanillasoap’s Capture Widget
   

   Vanillasoap’s Capture Widget is the most convenient screenshot capture utility I’ve ever come across. It’s small, which makes it non-intrusive. A good thing when taking screen captures. This widget is also quite functional, it can take a capture of the entire screen, a window, a selection, and you can also toggle whether to capture the Dashboard or your desktop. It also saves these screenshots in a variety of formats. Also another free widget which is being hosted here as Vanillasoap’s site is under construction.

3. Photo Drop
   

   If there ever was a super-widget, this would be it. Photo Drop can prepare images for you with a number of effects at your fingertips in a matter of seconds. It can also crop and resize images simply and easily. I encourage you to head on over to their website to see the different effects it is capable of, and view both of their demonstration videos on how it can be used alongside the Transmit widget for quick upload of images prepared by Photo Drop. In fact, all the images you see here in this post was prepared by Photo Drop. A really cool widget with a lot of functionality. Also a freebie.

Are there any other extremely useful widgets that have found a permanent home on your Dashboard?