In General, Tips Jul 13, 20097
20 Essential Social Media Widgets for your Mac Dashboard
We all need a personal assistant to stay on top of all our social media commitments, it can be difficult and time consuming. Twitter, Facebook, Myspace … Digg, Delicious … and not to mention kepping your personal blog up to date. We need help.
One solution for the MAC user are widgets, those small indispensible apps that run on the dashboard. Below you will find a selection of the best social media widgets for your MAC Dashboard, I hope they help.
digg.com
A handy and easy to use a digg.com widget with the look and feel of the digg.com website.
Twidget
Twidget is a free feature rich Dashboard Widget for OS X that allows you to update your Twitter status. Its displays the 20 most recent public tweets or your friends timeline, automatic refresh, links to reply to direct messages, mark tweets as “Favourite”and recognizes replies and auto-links them to follow conversations.
Chirp
Chirp is a Dashboard Widget for Mac OS X that allows you to quickly and easily keep tabs on your microblogging, Web 2.0 life. With Chirp, you can quickly view your friends’ latest updates, and post links, updates, or even send direct messages to your friends. Microblogging has been taking the world by storm — and now, Chirp brings the best of it to your Dashboard!
Twitterlex
Twitterlex is a simple Mac OS X Dashboard Widget that shows you the last 30 twitters by you and your Twitter friends, updating every 60 seconds when visible. When hidden, it updates every 5 minutes and sending Growl notifications if anyone has updated their status.
Del.icio.us Widget
This widget enables you to login to your del.icio.us bookmark feed and easily browse your bookmarks from the comfort of your Dashboard.
Stumbleupon Widget
Put simply, it searches Stumbleupon and returns the results via the Dashboard.
Slashdash
Simply click the Slashdash icon in your widget tray, and you will have a small Slashdot themed widget window that will update every 30 minutes automatically. Click the article title and the article will open in your browser.
MySpaceViewer
This elegant widget displays any MySpace user’s most recent comment. Simply enter the user’s URL on the reverse side, and MySpaceViewer retrieves both the comment and the picture of the user who sent the comment.
Technorati Tag Generator
The Technorati Tag Generator is a simple widget allowing you to generate HTML code that is associated with popularTechnorati Tags. Ysers, then have to, cut and paste the generated HTML code into their blog page.
Download Technorati Tag Generator
YouTube
With this feature rich widget you can watch and search featured videos, you can also view the most discussed, most recent, most viewed all within your Dashboard.
Search Wikipedia
Enter in the search field any searcg term and it will open the Wikipedia page with that information.
FlickIt
FlickIt is a dashboard widget specifically design to save you huge amounts of time. Whether you want to post a photo to your blog, send a link to one via email or instant message, or would like to paste the source of it into an application you’re using – FlickIt can handle it.
Flickr Interestingness
This widget shows a random selection of 16 images from the top 100 most interesting photos on flickr.com. It also allows you to zoom in on a selected image and then open a browser window showing the selected photo detail page on flickr.com.
Download Flickr Interestingness
Google Reader
The Google Reader Dashboard Widget will display on your dashboard the number of items from your feeds that are currently unread.
RSS-Reader
This dashboard widget allows you to display news feeds in your dashboard. It supports both RSS and Atom feeds. You can have multiple readers open which display different feeds. The widget can automatically reload your feeds.
Gmail Widget
This cool little widget allows you to view your Gmail inbox at a glance.
Blogger Widget
The quickest and easiest method of posting to Blogger.
Facebook Watch
Displays user data from the social networking site Facebook.com. The widget allows the user to view: Their wall ; Friends’ recently updated profiles ; Friend, group, and detail requests ; Their inbox ; New Pokes.
WordPressDash
WordPressDash offers an easy way for bloggers to post to their WP sites whenever they want from the comfort of their MAC dashboards.
LiveWidget
A LiveJournal client with support for: Shared Journals (including moderated communities); Custom Friend-groups; Ready made basic HTML tags (just type your own if you want something else); Current iTunes track info; Mood entry (from the list or enter you own); Colour schemes; Shrinkable interface, for smaller screened users; Secure passwords (using Keychain); Userpics; Tags.
By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter)
7 Comments
Jul 14, 2009
Hey, geniuses. MAC is an address used for networking. Mac is a line of computers. Get it right or don’t post on them at all.
Jul 14, 2009
hi,
it’s “Mac”, as in the shortening of the word “Macintosh”, not “MAC”, which is how one refers to Media Access Control (as in “MAC address”)
thanks for the article!
Jul 14, 2009
Many of these widgets have nothing to do with “social media”!
Gmail? Google Reader? Rss-Reader? WTF?
Jul 16, 2009
Thanks for great article. I’ll bookmark it!
Dec 14, 2009
I have a suggestion for you:
YouTube Downloader: http://www.dashboardwidgets.com/showcase/details.php?wid=2446
Dec 15, 2009
Come on people, the delicious widget is from 2005 and doesn’t work anymore. Post relevant, up to date information. not just any old junk.
Dec 17, 2009
Yes I agree with Mike, the delicious widget does not work any more because delicious changed to Yahoo login… any other suggestions for delicious??
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