She hadn’t released a new album in five years. But that spell ended dramatically when singer/songwriter Erykah Badu sat down in front of her MacBook and fired up GarageBand. The music surged. “I learned how to use GarageBand by trial and error,” Badu says. “It’s like somebody stuck a plug in the back of my neck and uploaded a program to learn how to use GarageBand. It was automatic. Everything on that Mac was automatic.”

Like many small business owners, RealSimple’s Erin knew that “databases can simplify life and work, but until now, I’ve never been able to design them myself.” Until she began using Bento, that is. “Bento looks, feels and works like other Mac applications. Organizing your information into collections in Bento is much like organizing songs in iTunes,” she writes. It’s “just another reason to consider a Mac.”

About VicoSoft Widget
This widget you will like, since Heart of the Manchá brings to your Mac the last new developments of the Blog.

About Macworld News
This handy widget for the Macworld fan provides fast RSS feed retrieval, as well as an easy-to-use and elegant interface.

About ECal widget
Stands for eBay + Calendar (or eBay + iCal) With this widget you have the possibility to create iCal events for all the eBay auctions you do not want to miss. It works for most of the international eBay sites and moreover is localized for English, German and Italian. It allows to choose the destination calendar and the local eBay site which is needed to correctly interpret the ending dates of the auctions. I was inspired by Baywatch, which is a program doing the same thing but then stopped working when Leopard arrived. The advantage of having this functionality in a widget is obvious: you just hit F12 and the widget’s button and you’re done!

“After about a month on the market,” reports Arik Hsseldahl (businessweek.com) “Time Capsule is proving to be far and away the market leader.” Hesseldahl notes that “Steve Baker of market research firm NPD called it the ‘dominant product in its category.’”

When it opens its doors to customers on May 15, the Apple Retail Store on Boylston Street — located in the heart of Boston’s historic Back Bay — becomes the largest Apple Store in the US. Customers will enjoy hands-on access to the Mac, iPhone, and iPod on the first two floors, and on the third, they’ll find a Genius Bar and Boston’s first Pro Labs, offering free, in-depth training on Apple’s pro applications.

About Killer App Launcher
Killer App Launcher gives you a fast and elegant alternative to the Dock or the Finder for launching your everyday applications. Just choose the apps you use the most, and then put them in any order you want. What you get are huge icons to click in an instant without taking up space in your dock or on your desktop, and without requiring you to dig into the Finder at all.

Use it for a day, and you’ll never want to open your Applications folder again!

About Killer App Launcher
Killer App Launcher gives you a fast and elegant alternative to the Dock or the Finder for launching your everyday applications. Just choose the apps you use the most, and then put them in any order you want. What you get are huge icons to click in an instant without taking up space in your dock or on your desktop, and without requiring you to dig into the Finder at all.

Use it for a day, and you’ll never want to open your Applications folder again!

About Ramah 2008 Countdown
Can you wait? Neither can I. Download this widget so you can see how soon you are to seeing all of your friends.

About Knight Frank Property Widget
View some of the world’s most exclusive properties and find the home of your dreams with one click on your Dashboard.

Property Feeds Available:
- Latest UK Sales Properties
- Latest London Sales Properties
- Latest London Lettings Properties
- Latest UK Lettings Properties
- UK Feeds
- London Feeds
- Land Properties
- Hotels
- Farms and Estates
- Country Houses
- Riverside Properties
- Waterfront Properties
- Institutional
- HealthCare Properties
- Properties with Tours

About Mashable! Widget
This widget is an RSS feed of the posts on Mashable.com - The Social Networking Blog!

About Ecademy Power Feed RSS Widget
Dashboard Widget for accessing the Ecademy.com blogs.

HBO and Apple today announced that customers can now purchase and download critically acclaimed HBO shows — including such Emmy Award-winning programs as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood, and Rome — from iTunes. “We’re very excited to make these legendary HBO programs available on the iTunes Store,” said Henry McGee, president of HBO Video.

About MacPips Wooden Puzzle Dashboard Widget
This little puzzle, based on a wooden toy we once saw, is more difficult than it looks! The idea is simple. You must get all of the pieces onto their respective coloured pegs, but the colour of the piece you are moving must match the piece you are moving it to. If moving to an empty peg, the piece must match the colour of the peg. You can move one or two pieces at a time and you can’t have more than 7 pieces on a peg. We hope you have fun solving it!

About WWDC 08 Countdown Widget
Full featured countdown timer to the start of WWDC 2008. Also features buttons which take you to the official WWDC website and my personal blog. Enjoy!

Using .Mac sync in Mac OS X Leopard, you can synchronize most of your personal data — including contacts, bookmarks, iCal events, Dock items, Dashboard widgets and more — among the multiple Macs you use at work and home. In fact, .Mac Sync even lets you add your iPhone to the mix. Find out how by watching the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

About WWDC 2008 Keynote Counwdown
Counts down until the Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote in June. Widget updated automatically and periodically (if the event date changes).

About WWDC 2008 Keynote Counwdown
Counts down until the Steve Jobs WWDC 2008 Keynote in June. Widget updated automatically and periodically (if the event date changes).

About LeoWidget
Translate german to english using dict.leo.org. Contains the dict.leo.org results inside the widget. No need to open a browser for a quick lookup.