Showing posts with label dashboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dashboard. Show all posts

Saturday, January 02, 2010

Make Web Clips in Safari for Dashboard

Here's a neat little trick that I haven't used much!

Leopard makes it easy to create a Dashboard widget from a segment of a web page. For example, you can capture a “new releases” list from a media website, or the “latest posts” field from an Internet discussion group. These Web Clips appear, automatically updated, whenever you open Dashboard.

[From Apple - Pro - Tips - Creating Web Clip Widgets]

Friday, July 14, 2006

Checking out widgets before you buy

Here’s a neat way to check out a widget before loading it on your system: hold down command-option at the load widget dialog and the default button changes to RUN. From Macworld!