Widgets unleashed

Although its novelty has worn off since Tiger was first released,
Dashboard is still a popular feature of Mac OS X 10.4. However, one
of the most frequent requests we get here at Macworld—even today,
nearly a year after Tiger was released—is for a way to get Dashboard
widgets to run outside of Dashboard.

Last fall, Dori Smith explained how to get a widget to float above
the Desktop, but that procedure required that you enable Dashboard
developer mode and then manually drag widgets in and out of
Dashboard. A simpler—though more expensive—approach is to use Mesa
Dynamics’ $20 Amnesty 1.2.2 ()

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/04/amnesty/index.php