Jun 23
Sarah E-mailed this one in:
To refresh a widget individually, click on the desired widget and hit “apple-R”.
Thanks Sarah…
Apr 11
Not exactly a power tip… so don’t rip me apart because I know this isn’t high tech. Do you get annoyed by cluttered post-it’s crowding your dashboard? (See below)
A lot of times you can’t read them easily and your eyes just miss them. But I’ve found a work-around. First, open up Text Edit or your favorite word processing app. Type your message there and increase font size as large as you like. I used 100pt in this example. 
Now, press down Shift + Command + 4 to take a selected screenshot of your text. The image will save to the desktop. Then drag the image to the Safari icon in the dock. A new tab will open up with your image in it. Now, take a web clip of the image. It’s that simple. Now you have an easy to read post-it.
Feb 12
By coincidence I figured that there is an easy way of deleting Widgets from your Dashboard.
Just go ahead and press the Alt/Option key and scroll over any widget. As you can see the white cross on the left hand side appears and you can delete a widget from your dashboard.
* note from James - This is an oldie but a goodie, I don’t recall if we’ve covered this already or not. I’m sure new mac users will appreciate.
Jan 21
I accidentally stumbled on this little trick. While in the dashboard, instead of clicking the little plus in the bottom left corner to get the X for closing a widget, simply mouse over the widget you want to close while holding alt/option and the X will appear.
* note from James, This also works in Tiger, a classic!
