![]() In addition to my stalwart Microsoft Office 2011-installed with a license of, ahem, questionable origin-my list of 32-bit programs also includes a line item for “Dashboard Widgets.” No one, including Apple, wanted to gut and renovate their widgets for the 64-bit future. Apple helpfully points out those programs for you in its System Information menu. ![]() If Edit Widget appears below its name (indicating you can change the information), click the widget to flip it. In your set of active widgets, do any of the following: Change the information a widget shows: Move the pointer over a widget. Once you upgrade, any program that hasn't made the jump will break for good and refuse to launch. At the bottom of Notification Center, click Edit Widgets. MacOS Catalina took the final step, dropping support for 32-bit applications. A few years ago, Apple began transitioning away from 32-bit applications in favor of 64-bit software that takes better advantage of modern, high-performance processors. I guess I see why Dashboard had to go, alas. And the tools you use to get through the day, however flawed or idiosyncratic they may be, take on a pleasant intimacy as tangible extensions of your mind. (There's a perfectly good macOS Dictionary app, for example.) But sometimes routines become part of your interior life. All of the tools were readily available to me in a number of other equally convenient or perhaps superior formats. ![]() ![]() I’m not trying to convince you that my constant Dashboarding was particularly smart or efficient. ![]()
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