It is official: I am a Dashboard junkie. Fortunately for Dashboard junkies like myself, Dashboard widgets are legal and much safer than crack. Aside from Spotlight, Dashboard is the feature I use most in Tiger. I have about fifty widgets installed on my iBook and am constantly looking for more. Here are some of my favorites:

Weather (built-in): Useful, cool-looking; in a nutshell, a model widget.
Jared (Freeverse Software): An old friend is back!I just hope you have a high tolerance for musical ineptitude before using this one.
Reversi (Andrew Collier): A simple reversi game you can play against the computer or a human opponent. A great time-killer.
Yahoo! Traffic (Yahoo!; download page): A must if you live in a large metropolitian area.
Google Maps (David Lindquist; download page): Google Maps is great for finding places and as a fun time-waster. A widget makes this already handy tool even better.
Scoreboard (Ryan Inselmann; download page): I’m a big baseball fan. Scoreboard allows me to keep tabs on a game even when I can’t watch it myself.
JUST ADDED: iClip Lite (inventive): A scrapbook-like widget for storing items on your clipboard.

Keep this page bookmarked; I will update it as I find more cool ones.

Where to find widgets

The most obvious place to go isApple’s Dashboard widget download site, which features over 500 widgets. Other sites to check out include Widget Machine, a widget developer, as well as other widget-dedicated sites such as Dashboard Lineup and dashboardwidgets.com.

Miscellaneous stuff:
I’d like to take a moment and publicly welcome Bryan Bernstein to the Deep Thought staff. Welcome aboard, Bryan!

I have been using the keyboard and mouse from an old iMac. Am I the only person on Earth who doesn’t have a problem with the hockey puck mouse? Let me know what you think.

Sorry about the extra spaces before links; I think we have some bugs to work out off the stylesheet. I think we also need to make links look less like bolded text. Hopefully we’ll tweak this ASAP.