Top Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS X

Wikipedia defines a Dashboard Widget as “a small specialised desktop application that provides easy access to frequently used functions or provides some visual information.”

Apple has compiled a page with amazing dashboard widgets for your Mac OS X dashboard.
See their list of top 50 downloaded Dashboard widgets.

The Top 5 dashboard widgets for your Mac OS X dashboard
1. Sunlit Earth 1.0
Displays sunlit portion of the Earth.

2. TV Tracker 1.5
See what’s being shown on US TV right now. 0

3. SysStat 0.99
Allows you to view memory usage, CPU usage, network stats, uptimes, load averages and the top 3 process’s from one simple widget.

4. Wikipedia 0.8.7
Search for and view wikipedia articles, complete with pictures, directly from the Dashboard.

5. RabbitRadio 0.6
A Dashboard widget for realtime streaming of NPR radio stations.
See the full list.

You can also find more widgets by category and submit your own widgets.