![]() In addition to my stalwart Microsoft Office 2011-installed with a license of, ahem, questionable origin-my list of 32-bit programs also includes a line item for “Dashboard Widgets.” No one, including Apple, wanted to gut and renovate their widgets for the 64-bit future. Apple helpfully points out those programs for you in its System Information menu. If you’d like to edit your captures in another app, no problem you can export them to any application on your Mac right from the widget. You can save your captures to your hard drive or clipboard. ![]() ![]() Once you upgrade, any program that hasn't made the jump will break for good and refuse to launch. This dashboard widget allows you to take timed (10 second delay) full screen and selected area captures. MacOS Catalina took the final step, dropping support for 32-bit applications. A few years ago, Apple began transitioning away from 32-bit applications in favor of 64-bit software that takes better advantage of modern, high-performance processors. I guess I see why Dashboard had to go, alas. And the tools you use to get through the day, however flawed or idiosyncratic they may be, take on a pleasant intimacy as tangible extensions of your mind. Yes there are some tools that you can download to tweak your Windows to look just like a Mac, but in the end it doesn’t matter how much you change the UI a PC will always look like a Windows in the root. (There's a perfectly good macOS Dictionary app, for example.) But sometimes routines become part of your interior life. Mac has lots of cool UI animations, it’s fade in/out dashboard widget is one of the reason people love their Mac OS X over Windows 7. All of the tools were readily available to me in a number of other equally convenient or perhaps superior formats. I’m not trying to convince you that my constant Dashboarding was particularly smart or efficient.
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