As I may have noted, I’ve purchased every version of Mac OS X.  That means that I’ve been around for some of the less-than-great versions and features and have seen those features eventually get finely tuned to become a seamless part of my computing experience.  However there were some features that were perfect from day one, most notable in my books is “Dashboard”– the widget host for the Mac OS X desktop that premiered in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) in 2005.  Whether or not you use, or even know about this, widgets have a long and great history… Read the rest of this entry »