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Aside from its powerful Spotlight search feature, the biggest new tool in OS X Tiger is Dashboard, a collection of desktop tools and mini-browsers, called widgets, that appear on the desktop and then disappear when you're done with them. Dashboard is permanently on and is accessible through the Dock. You click its icon to bring widgets forward, and they float above your desktop.

Tiger includes over a dozen widgets, like stickies, iTunes, and an adress book, but third-party developers also have come out with scores of widgets. Many of them are equivalent to mini, single-purpose web browsers. You can customize the group of widgets on your desktop, perhaps including a world clock, weather center, dictionary, stock watcher, Yellow Pages lookup, or others. You can arrange the widgets as you like and download new ones online from Apple's site. There's even a widget browser sorted by categories such as Financial, Shopping, and Games.

We've selected 20 of our favorite widgets and present them in the following pages. These range from shipment tracking to stock quotes to system monitoring. Drop by our discussion forum to let us know which are your favorite widgets or just what you think of the whole concept of widgets. Continued...

Package Tracker is a handy little widget that lets you track UPS, FedEx, or DHL shipments. Simply click the shipping service name and then type in your package's tracking number to get the latest information on where your package is and when it will arrive. Continued... Slashdot nerds rejoice! With the Slashdash widget, you can get a feed of Slashdot headlines displayed right on your dashboard. This makes it easy to keep up with the latest and greatest Slashdot controversies and news. Continued... Traffic is always a headache to run into, but the Yahoo Local Traffic widget can get you the inside scoop before you even leave the house. Why sit in traffic if you can avoid it altogether thanks to the power of your dashboard? Continued... Remember when you were a kid and you consulted the Magic 8 Ball to find out what fate had in store for you? Well now you can do it, with 8 Ball, right from the comfort of your dashboard. What's in your future? Only the magic 8 ball knows for sure!

We asked it one simple question: Will our readers like this article? And of course the 8 Ball answered...outlook good! Thanks magic 8 ball! Continued... Wikipedia is a rich treasure-trove of information, and now you can use your dashboard to pull up full articles from this amazing resource. Just type in your search term, and your result will be displayed right in your Wikipedia widget. You can change languages or even opt for a random article by clicking on the question mark to the right of the search field. Continued... Hear a good song lately but don't know what the heck the singer is actually saying? Use Lyric Tracker to find out. Lyric tracker makes understanding the gibberish of recording artists fast and easy by calling up results from songs365.com. Continued... Monitor your system via your dashboard with Dash Monitors. You can keep an eye on CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O performance. Choose to see a text, simple, or a graphical view of what's happening on your Mac. Continued... Get the latest and greatest Mac news delivered right to your dashboard with MacDailyNews. You'll know everything there is to know in the Mac world without ever having to leave your dashboard. Steve Jobs gets a bad case of gas? MacDailyNews widget will keep you on top of the situation! Continued... The My Yahoo widget lets you access headlines from your My Yahoo selections and provides a handy Yahoo search box. You'll also get RSS subscription headlines displayed and you'll know when you have more mail. Let My Yahoo give you the best of Yahoo right on your dashboard! Continued... Tired of coming up with creative, secure passwords? Save time and energy by letting Password Generator do the work for you. Just click the "generate" button to get an instant, secure password. Continued... Browse or search a free podcast directory with Podcast Shuffle Search. There are no ads, and you'll find podcast info about a variety of topics. Continued... Positive Quote of the Day lets you get your day off to a great start with a quotation from some of history's greatest writers and thinkers. Don't let negative thinking get you down! Think positive with the Positive Quote of the Day! Continued... Kennedy Space Center Video Feeds lets you view video feeds from the Kennedy Space Center. You can watch NASA TV view a number of different locations and hop around 15 channels. You can also customize the refresh rate. Continued... The handy, little Stocks widget that's included with Tiger displays stock quote information from quote.com. If you've got money in the market then you'll want to use this to keep an eye on your investments. Continued... Experience the wisdom of the ages through your dashboard with the Daily Tao. You get a new chapter each day and it all comes from DailyTao.org. Let Lao-Tsu guide you to enlightenment. Continued... Ever wonder what significant events might have happened on this date? Wonder no longer! With This Day in History, you'll know the interesting factoids you always wondered about. Continued... If you have a Tivo hooked up to your network, you can use the Now Playing (Tivo Widget) to see what programs you have recorded. You'll need to enter your Tivo IP address and MAK to get your listing from your Tivo. Continued... A very simple but useful widget, the Accuweather.com Weather Widget displays your current local weather as well as a five-day forecast. Why get up and look out the window when you can use your dashboard to find out what it's like outside? Why indeed! Continued... Baseball fans rejoice! Scoreboard shows you the scores of the day or lets you track a particular team. You'll never be in the dark about how your favorite teams are doing at any moment! Continued... Another system monitoring tool, SysStat lets you easily view CPU usage, network info, load averages, memory usage, and your top three processes. It's a very helpful widget for system geeks who need to know what's going on via their dashboard. Continued...

Well, that's it for our roundup. There's a heck of a lot more widgets out there, though, so don't stop with what we've covered here. Be sure to drop by the Apple site for other widgets and tell us about them in the forums.