If you are someone who enjoys using the Widget feature of OS X, but finds the fact that they are hidden away in your dashboard annoying, this little trick will help you out…
First you need to open the app called Terminal. Terminal is located in your Utilities Folder and is an application that gives you access to the command line interface of your machine. Once you have Terminal open type in the command that follows and hit Enter:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
After you have entered that, you will need to log out of your account and sign back in. To move the desired Widgets to your desktop, go to your dashboard, click and hold on the desired Widget, and press the F12 key. If this does not work, all you need to do is hop back into Terminal and run the following command:
killall Dock
This will make your Widgets accessible from your desktop. If you ever decide you don’t need to have your Widgets floating on your desktop, run the initial command with NO, instead of YES at the end. It would look like this.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode NO
WARNING: Improper use of Terminal can wreak almost unlimited havoc on your machine. Make sure you type these commands exactly and ALWAYS back up before making these types of changes.