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Dashboard KickStart 3.2.1

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Eliminates long Dashboard startup sequence (was Dashboard Start). Free

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Colourful Apps (formerly Alwin Troost nl)

With Dashboard KickStart (formerly Dashboard Start), you'll always have the Dashboard ready to use the first time you want. Without it you'll have to wait for a complete Dashboard start-up sequence as soon as you are ready use it for a first time, making its quick accessibility rather useless.

This application runs in the background and reacts to the starting or re-starting of the Dock and to waking up from sleep mode. When that happens it initiates the starting of the Dashboard.

What's New

Version 3.2.1:

Further improved Mac OSX 10.7 Lion compatibility (dismissing Dashboard)
Fixes issues when not using Dashboard as a space in Lion
Added German localization, thanks to "Chevy"

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later

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Dashboard KickStar... User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 3.x:

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hubby reviewed on 27 Nov 2011

The dashboard remains open after a kickstart - I thought it was supposed to open and then close the dashboard. And the option to activate after sleep is not stable.
Also - the developer is not responsive!

[Version 3.2.1]

+31

Vitaly commented on 12 Aug 2011

in system prefs the option activate after sleep does not stay unchecked

[Version 3.2.1]

2 Replies

+149

Jimw replied on 18 Aug 2011

On my it does not get along well with Mission Control either. When using hot corners or hovering over the dock it will suddenly and randomly do its thing. It was so annoying I finally removed it.

Sonnendeck replied on 18 Aug 2011

Yes, I have the same problem!

Macboy85 reviewed on 05 Jul 2011

not bad.cool stuff

[Version 3.2]

+20

Winco reviewed on 30 Jun 2011

Great solution. I don't have an issue being a System Pref either. It's free. Stop complaining.

[Version 3.2]

Fking reviewed on 30 Jun 2011

simple, useful app. don't mind it as a system pref (i RARELY visit sys prefs anyway!)

[Version 3.2]

+29

strider72 commented on 04 Jan 2009

A shame the author chose to make this a Preference Pane in version 3-- it adds clutter to an already crowded screen, rather than just giving me a simple app that I can have run on login. I'll stick to v2 for now, thanks....

[Version 3.0]

+17

asmeurer commented on 06 Oct 2008

Copy this into Script Editor and save as an Application:

do shell script "open /Applications/Dashboard.app/;open /Applications/Expose.app/;open /Applications/Expose.app/"

Then set it to open at login.

[Version 2.4]