STEP TWO (Your First Look at Dashboard)

When you click on the Dashboard Dock icon (or press F12), Dashboard immediately zooms into view, with some of Dashboard's "widgets" (that's Apple's name for these mini-applications) already open (as shown above). We're going to start by looking at the Calculator widget on the left, which is probably the simplest of all widgets. It's pretty much just what it looks likea calculator. It's handy for doing simple calculations, by either using the mouse and clicking on the calculator buttons, or you can use the numeric keypad on your keyboard (it's up to you). You can move the Calculator widget anywhere onscreen, so if you want it out of the way somewhere, click on any part of the calculator that isn't a button and drag it where you want it onscreen. Now, it will always appear in that spot (unless you decide to move it later). That's basically how you move widgets aroundclick on something other than their buttons, then drag them where you want them. So, if you want to take a moment to tidy up your widgets, I don't mind waiting.