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Kill Dashboard dead ... if you must

disable dashboardEver since Apple released Dashboard as part of OS X 10.4, people have tried to shut it off. Which seems reasonable; after all, you can kill just about any app you don't like, including the Finder. But Dashboard, it seemed, was always running, with a little black triangle under its icon to prove it. Never mind that, in point of fact, Dashboard doesn't really do anything or consume any system resources on its own; it only eats RAM and processor time once you start running widgets. Despite this, the Kill Dashboard movement began, with tips, scripts and preference panes, all designed to kill something that isn't really "live" to begin with. This has now reached its logical apotheosis with the release of the Disable Dashboard widget. That's right; it lets you kill Dashboard from within Dashboard itself, sort of like a Quit button with a GUI. Needless to say, all of this is superfluous. If you don't use Dashboard, just drag it out of your Dock and forget about it.
 

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