Dashboard is an application for Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating systems, used as a secondary desktop for hosting mini-applications known as widgets. These are intended to be simple applications that do not take time to launch. Dashboard applications supplied with OS X include a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad; users can create or download their own.Before OS X 10.7 "Lion", when Dashboard is activated, the user's desktop is dimmed and widgets appear in the foreground.