Amnesty Singles: Free Your Widgets from the Dashboard!

Dashboard widgets are great. Sometimes, I wish that I didn’t have to go all the way to the Dashboard to see one of my widgets. One way you could do this is run your widgets as a normal application. There are a few ways to get your widgets out of the Dashboard, but by far the easiest and most useful is Amnesty Singles from Mesa Dynamics.

Before I found out about Amnesty Singles, I ran widgets on my desktop using this tip from Mac OS X Hints. It allowed widgets to be brought to the desktop, but they were still a part of the Dashboard, and would sit above everything on the screen. Amnesty Singles, on the other hand, makes the widget a stand-alone application.

It is extremely easy to create a stand-alone widget, as Amnesty Singles does all of the work. To create a widget-application, go to the folder *username*/Library/Widgets and find the widget you want to convert to an application. Drag this file onto the Amnesty window. Here, you need to select whether you want the widget to launch externally or internally. Externally means that the widget will launch from the file that you dragged onto the window. Internally means that a copy of the widget will be bundled with the application, so that is a true stand-alone application. Note: Widgets that launch internally will only run on computers with a licensed version of Amnesty Singles.

If you have ever had the need to run widgets on your desktop like I have, Amnesty Singles is definitely the best solution that I have found. If you know even more ways to run widgets outside of the Dashboard, tell us about it in the comments!

Amnesty Singles is shareware and is available for $9.95 USD from Mesa Dynamics.

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