The Weather Widget on the Dashboard

weather widget

I might be the last person to know this but…

If you are a Macintosh user and have the weather widget on your Dashboard, there are two tricks you can do with it.

The simplest one is to cmd+option+click on the upper edge of the widget to change the picture that is shown there (that picture normally changes automatically with the current weather conditions).

Another one which I didn’t know about was that if you click on the location name in the widget and have a browser open, it opens this window below in the browser.

weather, weather report, weather widget

Not only does it show the current weather as it would be shown on the screen of an iPhone or iPad, but it also gives you a lot of other information.

Like the weather forecast, and – if you scroll down on that screen, not on this image here – the time for the sunup and sundown.

You can also get a slideshow of pictures from the town you have set in the weather widget if you click on the images about in the middle of the screen. Beautiful images by the way.

And of course you can switch between C and F temperatures just by clicking the little F or C icon by the current temperature.

It also has a search field at the top of the screen to take you to other places in the world to get the information for those locations.

This was fun. And I got stuck here for a while this morning and really enjoyed it. Enjoy ;).

PS. This works in Mac OS X 10.9.1. I have no idea if it works in older versions of the OS.

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