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Ready for the fun now? Press f12 to bring Dashboard up, then drag one of your Dashboard widgets around. Now log out of your account by choosing Apple –> Log Out, and log in again (You need to restart Dashboard). You’ll get another regular system prompt within Terminal if it works, there’s no other output to the defaults program. You can just copy and paste from this Web page if you’re concerned that you might type in something incorrectly, of course. I would totally pay 20 € or more for that on OS X.Defaults write devmode YES

In general I find Mac apps to be superior in usability and looks, but this is one type of app where nearly every attempt I've seen on OS X veers towards "personal wiki" (too much), or online synching (don't need), or just plain clunky (dashboard widget). They were not as pretty as OS X Stickies, but you could set transparency and colours freely.Stickies had awesome shortcuts like: bring back all "hidden" stickies in view.Being able to hide a Stickies is great because sometimes you may want to keep a Stickies visible while working on something, and you might want to hide others which get in the way.So in effect it also works as a small notes database, but it is primarily a great scratchpad. You can manage the Stickies, hide ones you don't want to see now, and bring them back later.You can easily set the title of the Stickies.You can choose how much screen estate to use for your Stickies. If the text gets long, a scrollbar appears.Great for keeping lists of articles to read (why would I create a new online account, or use a browser extension when I can freely edit my list anyway I want? Not to mention it is saved somewhere on my harddrive that I can easily read without the application running, and backup). You can click links in Stickies to open in browser. You can drag the browser's uri to a Stickies. You can even have it play a sound and animate! The Sticky note goes to "sleep" (it hides) and will pop on your desktop at the required time. I don't want to go through the Dashboard, I want Stickies to pop on my desktop on command!.Toggle Stickies on and off with a global keyboard shortcut.I'm writing this in the hope a Mac developer researching the topic sees an opportunity.įeatures from Stickies that I am missing: Unfortunately I haven't come accross anything like Stickies on OS X.