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Dashboard is a semi-transparent layer, which is used for hosting mini-applications known as widgets for Apple’s Mac OS X Operating Systems. Dashboard is activated by pressing a mouse button, a hot key, or moving the cursor into a pre-assigned hot corner. These widgets are always helpful and the best thing about them is that they make a cool desktop. Following are the ten cool widgets, which you must have on your desktop.

PEMDAS

If you are stuck with a basic calculator on Mac, then PEMDAS is for you. It is an Apple design award winning scientific calculator with a user friendly GUI. There are many features such as, equation history view, trigonometric functions, hyperbolic functions, conversion between binary, decimal, octal and hexadecimal, etc.

Forex Charts Widget

Forex Charts Widget displays charts for several currency pairs and allows users to track the currency market from the Dashboard environment. Moreover, it also provides silver, gold, oil and stock indices.

Proxify

It is a web-based anonymous proxy service that allows users to surf the Internet securely and privately. It also hides IP address and their encrypted connection prevents monitoring of users network traffic. Once installed, forget about any viruses and malwares, just enjoy browsing.

Sky Sports Football News

If you are a football fan and does not want to miss anything related to it, then this is widget which allows you to view all the latest Sky Sports Planet Football news. You can select your premiership team and view all stories related to them. You can also select the widgets background colour.

Movie Trailers

Movie Trailers allows you to browse the newest movie trailers added to the Apple’s trailer page. It also allows you to scroll through all the movie posters and when you click on one, it gives a brief summary about the movie along with a button to watch the trailer.

pearLyrics

Ever felt to leap into the world of those wonderful song’s lyrics that are presently playing in iTunes? pearLyrics offers you just that. It searches for lyrics on the web as you play song in iTunes. Besides that, it can even find guitar chords at time. You can even pre-fetch lyrics for entire iTune playlists, so that you will be ready with the lyrics when you need them.

Mozilla Thunderbird

Makes emailing easier, safer and faster than ever before with Mozilla Thunderbird widget. It features intelligent spam filters, quick-search, built-in RSS reader and much more.

iStat Pro

It is the ultimate system monitoring widget for Mac operating systems. It consists of nine sections that can be shown or hidden. It gives you the highly detailed information on IP, bandwidth, temperatures, fan, hard drives, memory, etc.

AirPort Radar

It is a free tool for quickly scanning the area for airport and other wireless networks. It works with 11g PCI cards, MacWireless 11g PC cards and Airport Cards. This widget displays the name and signal strength of the network. It automatically resize itself to accommodate shorter or longer lists of wireless networks.

iTube

iTube widget allows you to see the music video to the song you are listening. Once installed, it works by itself in the background, so start a song in iTune, then check your dashboard and you will be watching what you are listening to.