Dashboard

The address book widget that comes with OS X Tiger is a great way to find someone's information very quickly.

I find it to be quicker than launching the address book, and looking through all of your contacts.

Here is how to do it:

1. Click on your Address Book widget on your Dashboard.
2. Use the search box on the widget to find an address book entry that you have fully entered the info into. It should have a phone number, street address, and email address.
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Do you have a widget that you want to drop onto your desktop, instead of accessing Dashboard to view it? I have an Ebay and a Digg widget that I do this with.

Here is how to do it:
Open Dashboard

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Do you have too many Dashboard Widgets? Do you scroll through tons of widgets you thought you would use? Maybe it's time to do some Dashboard cleanup.

Here is how to do it:
Activate Dashboard - Click on the 'Dashboard' icon on your dock, or press 'F11'.
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If you use the Dashboard widgets, you probably already use the People widget and the Business widget (formerly Yellow Pages). I use it all of the time to look up numbers, such as the Pizza place. The People Widget is just as useful, since I can query for a person's name, and then have their address and phone number (if they are listed) within seconds.

Sometimes though, you may want to add that info to you address book - especially searches you perform often. We constantly have to look up a particular person's name because we thought it was committed to memory.. and it wasn't.

Here is how to add that information to your address book:
Start 'Dashboard', then choose the 'People' Widget.

Next, perform a search for someone (names were blurred to protect the innocent!)
Now, notice the '+' next to the address. Click on this, and it will ask you if you want to add that person to your address book.
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Address book and the accompanying widget are very handy. You can keep all of your contacts organized, and they are at your finger tips right when you need them. I use it to look up phone numbers all of the time. The problem I have is that sometimes the phone number is hard to see, or I walk across the room to dial the number.. and then forget it. Here is a way to make the phone number display large enough to even see it across the room.

Here's how to do it:

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Every-time you launch a widget, the mac puts it right in the center of the dashboard.. which means, you probably have to move it, so it's not on top of another widget.


Instead, click on a widget on the Panel and while still holding down the mouse button, drag it to where you want it (aka Clicking and Dragging) - directly onto the dashboard.

OS X Tiger comes with an Address Book widget already loaded on your system. This widget is a quick and easy way to get contact info on the fly.

For full details, check out the Podcast.

Press F11 or click on the Dashboard icon on the dock to bring up dashboard.

If address book isn't already running, click on it and start the widget.

Click on the telephone # and it will bring it up in a large easy to read type!

Experiment and Click on the other links in the address book to see what they do!

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