Widget Master

Name: Widget Master
Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

1.4

01 August 2005

Manage your widgets.

Overview

Add, remove, disable, enable user and system widgets for Dashboard and Konfabulator with just a click of a button.
Move user installed widgets to the System's Widgets folder for all users of your machine to access.
One click access to user and system Widgets folders
Activate Dashboard from within Widget Master
A growing collection of websites where you can get more widgets
Compatible with new permissions of widget folders introduced with Mac OS 10.4.1. Some actions may require an administrators username and password.
Compiled with new Universal Binary for compatibility with Intel based Macs as well as the current PowerPC Mac.

What's new in Widget Master

Version numbers for widgets that correctly report their version.
Turn Dashboard on and off
GUI updating fixed
Double-click a Dashboard widget to see a little more info on it.
Open widgets directly from Widget Master

Widget Master Screenshots

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The only problem with the last post is that the widget will go away when you activate Dashboard again. Widget Master will enable Dashboard Development Mode so that the widget will stay where you put it.

Version 1.4

AMNESTY IS EXPENSIVE and does very little that would justify its price. The dirty little secret is this: If one wants widgets to run in the finder, one only has to hold down F12, open the widget shelf, drag the widget into the finder by hitting F12 again

Version 1.4

Widget Master 1.3 Dashboard Development Mode is greyed out and will not work in Tiger 10.4.2. This happened before on a previous version where everything was greyed out. Losing patience.

Version 1.3

3 answer(s)

dj-6

14 July 2005

I'm not sure what you mean by everything being grayed out. The "On" button should be active and the "off" button should be grayed out. Otherwise none of the buttons should be grayed out on purpose.

Version 1.3

Anonymous

14 July 2005

Not everything is greyed out on version 1.3 running Tiger 10.4.2, that is what happened on a previous version of Widget Master. But the Dashboard Development Mode buttons i.e. On and Off are both greyed out and will not work. The other parts of the programme are OK. As I said this is on Tiger 10.4.2.

Version 1.3

Anonymous

14 July 2005

Brilliant, now we are cooking on gas. Thank you for your speedy fix 1.3.1. The Dashboard Development Mode buttons "on/off" are now active and not greyed out. Thanks for a great little programme.

Version 1.3

To the developer: If you're putting so much work into a nice freeware program like this, how about making it something to compete with Amnesty, which charges $20 for putting the widgets into a menubar pulldown list? You'd have one of the most popular extensions for Tiger if such could be done....

Version 1.3

3 answer(s)

Anonymous

13 July 2005

Gotta agree. Widget Master does what you need it to do, with no drama. I would definitely consider paying for it (as long as it's between five and ten dollars.

Version 1.3

Anonymous

13 July 2005

If you really think all that Amnesty does is put "widgets into a menubar pulldown list", then no wonder you think it's expensive! :-)

Version 1.3

Anonymous

02 August 2005

Version 1.4

I use BitTorrent to download the this WEEK in TECH podcast and other podcasts, since I can get them quicker that way.

Version 1.2.1

Can you PLEASE get rid of those file extensions. Yes, we all know that widgets have the extension "wdgt". Also brushed metal looks better with less unused space.

Version 1.2

The author may not want to hint that he downloads illegal material either - you can clearly see a torrent file on his desktop :S

Version 1.2

1 answer(s)

Anonymous

28 June 2005

Do you mean the Bittorrent icon in his Dock? His desktop is covered up!

Version 1.2