-Add Widgets to Your Desktop

Love them or hate them, Apple seems to have no problem keeping widgets around in OS X's Dashboard. If you'd prefer to use those widgets on your desktop, you can do so with this command: defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES Now, log out and log back in. Open up your Dashboard, grab the widget you want by clicking and holding it with your mouse, and hit F12 to drop it onto your desktop. If the widgets don't appear, hop back into Terminal and type: killall Dock To reverse the process, just do the above in reverse, and change YES to NO in the first command.