Übersicht: Finally, a Good Widget Solution for OS X

Widgets are popular for a reason. They serve a useful purpose and users really seem to like them. It seems everyone except Apple realizes this. Android, Linux and Windows operating systems all have facilities for displaying widgets on home screens and/or desktops. Conversely, Apple sweeps them onto a quasi-desktop called the “Dashboard” that takes a special effort to view. You know the old saying, “Out of sight, out of mind”. And that’s where Dashboard widgets stay. And Apple keeps making it easier to get rid of them altogether. As of OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), there’s a dropdown in System Preferences-> Mission Control that lets you select to use Dashboard normally, as an overlay or turn it off completely. I select “Off” because I never seemed to use the hard-to-get-to widgets. It’s a real shame, because there’s some really useful ones like for viewing stock prices, weather, calendar, world clocks, package tracks, etc., but if I have to make a special effort to view a limited-function widget for information, I figure I might as well open an app or web page and do it right.

Well, now there’s a great alternative called Übersicht which, according to Google Translate is German for “overall view”.  I don’t know how accurate that is, but what I do know is...

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