Welcome to Frankwidget The ruined abbey of the ghostly monk that creates and explores the depths of the most diabolical widgets. Dare if you might explore the widgets held in this parlour of the perverse and petrified!

Darren Davies: The weather widget (built in - Apple)
Calendar (built in - Apple)
Dictionary / Thesaurus (built in - Apple)
Wikipedia - Just noticed I need an update http://www.whatsinthehouse.com/widgets/
Scientific calculator Pcalc3 - www.pcalc.com (commercial)
Spectrum emulator (Apple.com) playing a game of chuckie egg, for when you've just had too much of studying.
BBC Radio widget - http://www.phantomgorilla.com/
Harmonic lyric finder, this replaces singthatitune (Apple.com) It pastes lyrics back into itunes songs! Sing along! ;))

Peter Williams

Cristiano Betta: Here is my Dashboard. Most of it is regular stuff (as you can see I travel a bit around the world so want to know the time and weather in other places). The yellow thing in the middle is a Lorem Ipsum generator (see wikipedia for what that is). On the left you see the "Days of Dubia"-widget that counts down the days left in Bush's presidency. My friend Alper ( alper.nl) made this widget a while back. The last interesting widget is the green Jaiku widget in the bottom which allows me to send Jaiku messages (http://cbetta.jaiku.com ).

Steve Burley

Mike Bradbrook

Adam Johnston

Gavin Gough

I've attached a screen shot of my Dashboard which you're welcome to add to Frankenwidget if you like. Just to mention a couple that I particularly like: The Tuna Pitch widget is a quick and easy way to tune your guitar or, indeed, any musical instrument. It does just what it says on the tin. The Chi Pet widget seems to be the perfect pet, it doesn't chew the furniture or p*ss on the carpet and only needs feeding a single drop of water every three days. The Character Pal widget is useful when you're looking for strange characters and can't remember the keyboard combination and the BBC Listen Again widget is wonderful when you've missed your favourite programme and want to... errr... listen again!

Of course, the very best widget of all is not visible on this screen shot as I do not have room to leave it there permanently but the most rewarding utility of all must surely be the Whoopee cushion widget. Genius!

I've annotated the screen grab with a tool called Skitch, which is currently under beta testing but I do have an invitation that I can send you if you would like to join the beta testers.

Barry Richards

The best is Easy Envelopes from Ambrosia Software (the one on the right). A brilliant widget for printing envelopes. I find I use it all the time.
Details at www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/easyenvelopes/

I've also started using a widget to list all my outstanding To Dos in iCal. I found I managed to ignore them when they were just in iCal, in spite of reminders. Now they're there every time I F12.
I got it from www.bluehenley.com/products/dobedo.

I can't believe anyone would need to know about the others in the shot; they're all pretty standard.
But maybe someone might like to know about the above two.

I've also just installed a plug-in for Apple Mail, called Mail Appetizer. The moment a new message is received, Mail.appetizer displays an onscreen notification window, like Outlook. It gives you a brief summary of the message, so you can determine whether the message requires your immediate attention.
It's at http://www.bronsonbeta.com/mailappetizer/ if you don't already know it. (But maybe I got it from your show, anyway, did I?)

Matthew Maber

Tony Davies

Sam Mangan