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WidgetWizard Dashboard widget revealed!
SMS Mac Dashboard and Konfabulator Widget
Maria Langer - Ten Dashboard Widgets I Can’t Live Without
Hurricane Tracker Companion 2.0
Weather Underground Widget 1.42 Weather applications for your computer.
ML Baseball Widget 2.5.1
MailWidget 2.0.7
A New Mac Tip Every Day 1.2
Photocase 1.1b Widget
Football Widget 1.0.1
WordGuise 4.0.4 Universal
Mt. St. Helens VolcanoCam Widget 2.3
WidgetWizard Dashboard widget revealed!
Innermindmedia has introduced WidgetWizard, a unique Dashboard Widget to allow generating a valid RSS feed from any website
prMac - Innermindmedia has introduced WidgetWizard, a unique Dashboard Widget to allow generating a valid RSS feed from any website.
WidgetWizard is the one and only widget that allows any user to quickly and easily create their own custom dashboard RSS widget. Easily generate a unique RSS widget for any site with a valid RSS feed. And since WidgetWizard is a widget itself, it tucks out of the way neatly when you don't need it.
"We're very excited about this widget" Said Owner Kelly Legault. " It's a first online, and I think it will be a hit"
Make Your Own RSS widget for any site. Whenever you want, however you want. WidgetWizard is freely available from Innermindmedia's website.
Innermindmedia specializes in creating fun and unique widgets, and this is just another addition to their line up of widgets.
Website:
http://innermindmedia.com
Product URL:
http://www.innermindmedia.com/widget_wizard.html
Direct Download Link:
http://www.innermindmedia.com/WidgetWizard.wdgt.zip
Screenshot:
http://www.innermindmedia.com/WIDGETWIZARD/screeny.png
SMS Mac Dashboard and Konfabulator Widget
"Apple Dashboard Widget Contest Winner!", Apple Computer, USA.
"Trophées MacGeneration 2005 Winner!", MacGeneration, France.
Send a text message (SMS) to any mobile in the world!
How do you send an SMS? Are you using the T9 input method? Are you also wondering why you are using these small keys with numbers on it to enter text while you have your Mac keyboard in front of you? Then the Send SMS widget is for you. Use your Mac to enter SMS text and send the SMS through the Internet. You don't even need a mobile phone. The widget will send the SMS for you.
For more information, visit:
http://www.smsmac.com/widget.php
Maria Langer - Ten Dashboard Widgets I Can’t Live Without
Maria Langer says:
What’s on my Mac.
I have thoroughly embraced the Dashboard widget feature Apple introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. And while I don’t have time to keep up with the dozens of new widgets that are released each week, I have managed to pick up a few favorites.
Among them are a bunch I use daily. They’re the ones that are set up and ready to go so that when I press the F12 key, they’re onscreen, providing me with the information I want or waiting for me to type in a request.
Here’s my list of widgets I can’t live without. Some of them might surprise you.
You can check it out at:
http://www.marialanger.com/2007/08/10/ten-dashboard-widgets-i-cant-live-without/
Hurricane Tracker Companion 2.0
Get the latest images from the National Hurricane Center. Choose from Atlantic or Pacific feeds, even track specific storms or GOES images. These images are in different formats from visible, satellite or infrare.
New in version
2.0: Updated new image locations.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.travelwidgets.com/
Weather Underground Widget 1.42 Weather applications for your computer.
The official Weather Underground weather widget for Mac OS X. Receive weather conditions, animated radar, forecasts, severe weather alerts, web cams and Wunderphotos for any location in the world -- delivered right to your desktop.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.wunderground.com/download/widgets.asp
ML Baseball Widget 2.5.1
All the information you need about the MLB in one single and small widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous days, the schedule for the upcoming week, or current division and wildcard standings. For ongoing or past games, show the score overview and current game situation while having a convenient link to the full box score only a click away.
Widget Usage
Per default, the widget will display today's scoreboard, giving you a quick overview of all games of the day. Games show the current (or final) score or game start time (for your local time zone). Winning teams' names are highlighted on the scoreboard to more easily them.
- Select your favorite team on the widget's back to have games and current place in standings highlighted. The widget will also show your favorite team's logo in the background of the widget's front.
- Click on 'Standings' on the top right to select a division or wild card race to display - switch back to the scoreboard by clicking on 'Scoreboard' on the top left.
- When displaying the score board, use the arrows next to the date at the top to go back or forward in history - clicking either the date or the 'Scoreboard' text will reload the current score board.
- Pointing the mouse over any ongoing or finished game in the score board will display a little popup with the current (or final) game standings (you can select to not show those popups on the back of the widget). Note that the popup might not appear immediately as the widget has to download the latest information first. The popup will disappear after five seconds or when you mouse the mouse over it. Double-click on any game (ongoing or finished) to go to the full box score page on the MLB website (note that game information will not be available for a little while just after the game has finished).
- Teams already eliminated from the title or wild card race are shown in red in the standings
- The current day's scoreboard will automatically refresh once a minute, standings once every 30 minutes, or when the Dashboard is first displayed.
New in version 2.5.1:
New features:
• Highlight/animate new scores since the last refresh in the scoreboard for a few seconds.
Improvements/bug fixes:
• Fix positioning of league logo on back when large size is used.
• Display all unplayed innings for finsihed games with an "X" in the scoreboard (even for games that lasted less than 9 innings).
• Make the column widths in the scoreboard more consistent between refreshes and when changing days.
• Fix scoreboard updates from detail popup for delayed games when the delay occurred after three outs.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/DashBoard.html
MailWidget 2.0.7
This Dashboard Widget examines its email without that Apple Mail running.
It was made particularly for the needs of those, which left their email on the server
after that they were already dpwnloaded.
Further details can be found in the manual.
New in version 2.0.7:
• fixed problem with Growl which did emergency show UP frequently (thanks tons of Scott Field)
• fixed problem with encoded header information
• fixed issue where unsupported third party plug in accounts were shown in account cunning (thanks tons of Thierry Langie)
• fixed problem of Exchange accounts (thanks tons of Joseph Boloten)
• MailWidget now knows when your Mac which sleeping and check email just A few seconds after wake.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Apple Mail 2 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.students.uni-mainz.de/kwasmich/projects/mailwidget_en.html
A New Mac Tip Every Day 1.2
This is a blog where you'll find a new tip about Mac every day. It is aimed at both Apple desktop and laptop computers. Many useful features are hidden in OS X. It is time to uncover them!
A New Mac Tip Every Day widget gives you the feed from the "A New Mac Tip Every Day" site right in your Dashboard.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://tips4mac.blogspot.com/
Photocase 1.1b Widget
The Photocase Widget displays 20 of the latest or most interesting photos from the online photo-community, photocase.com. The most recent photo appears first, and you can navigate through the rest of the images simply by clicking the arrows at the bottom of the widget. The title of the photo and the name of the photographer are displayed in the frame.
New in version 1.1b:
• Added English localization
• It is now possible to choose whether to have 'new' or 'interesting' photos displayed.
• Update-bug fixed.
• Small cosmetic corrections.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://vernetzt.es/widget/photocase.html?L=1
Football Widget 1.0.1
Keep an eye on your favorite NFL football team - all the information you need in one single widget. Show the current scoreboard, full results from previous weeks, the schedule for the rest of the season (game times are displayed in your local time), or current division and conference standings. For ongoing or past games, show the score overview and current game situation while having a convenient link to the live gamecenter coverage only a click away.
New in version 1.0.1:
Fix typo which would result in the scoreboard not refreshing correctly if the Dashboard was closed while animating new scores.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/DashBoard.html
WordGuise 4.0.4 Universal
WordGuise is a REALbasic plugin that defines a text editor widget for windows and macintosh. It is also an RTF control, supporting most if not all of the gadgets an RTF document provides and it allows embedding of picture objects in the text. The WordGuise widget also provides support for Waste documents, because it sits on top of the well known Waste library. On windows wordguise exploits RichEdit and implements interfaces allowing picture embedding.
The WordGuise class inherits from a WordGuiseContainer control. The plugin allows creation of a WordGuise instance in code (on-the-fly), in addition to a default RB behavior, i.e., WordGuise is a typical control. An instance can be created by dragging the WordGuiseContainer on the window and then setting the super to WordGuise. Embedding can be done in a window, a panel or a RectControl of your choice. WordGuise can also be modified to act as a StaticText field, while you can set it to have focus, enable drag and drop or select its caption. WordGuise on the Mac can be extended to WordGuiseEx. This will allow usage of the new Waste 3.0 engine in MacOSX/Mach-O. When using WordGuiseEx, make sure to remove WordGuise plugin from the Plugins folder at the root of the REALbasic application, and vice versa, when using WordGuise do not put WordGuiseEx in the Plugins folder. WordGuiseEx has a different dylib (Mach-O) but otherwise is identical to WordGuise when it comes to MacOS PEF (OSX,classic) and Windows. Note that the WordGuise package comes with sample projects, while the WordGuiseEx package only contains the plugin. Further, if you purchase WordGuiseEx, you will need a license for WordGuise (which also includes all other plugins listed on this site) as well.
New in version 4.0.4:
• [Fix] All: WordGuise_in_a_ContainerControl is correctly aligned. It is possible that nested ContainerControls will show erronous WordGuise behavior.
• [Fix] All: Mouse responsiveness and proper coordinate reporting is accomplished by "disabeling" the setting of the "HIG" property. On the Mac we set it always to true, and on Windows we set it always to false. This is a platform dependent issue, related to embedding the various widgets (scrollbars, ruler) in the WordGuise editfield (OS X) or compositing these widgets around the field (XP).
• [Fix} Windows: Compositing widgets around the WordGuise editfield ensured a more consistent behavior. Triple-clicking is honored.
• [Fix] Windows: Sluggishness of mouse input has been corrected. Single, double and triple clicking work responsively, and dragging selected text is instantaneously.
• [Fix] Mac: Resizing the widget does not do erratic jittery text positioning anymore.
• [Issue] Windows: Drag 'n Drop isn't working properly. In a CC the outlining rectangle is drawn at the wrong place, and the selected text becomes non-selected when starting the drag. Unselection occurs with WG's wherever they live. In addition, the dragItem does contain the selected text, while dropping the dragItem at a different position in the text does not insert the text.
• [New] Sample Project: A wordGuiseContainer living in a ContainerControl, embedded on a PagePanel. It shows how to hide and show the CC. Note that REALbasic internally likes to handle the visibility of controls in a CC, but often can fail. This sample shows one way to do it right.
• [Fix] Mac OS: A WorguiseObject placed at the beginning of the text (offset = 0) will adequately return to the user as a valid object when WordGuise.GetObject[0] is called.
• [Fix] Win: To replace text with a nil string using a WordGuiseStreamItem of which its textfield is set to the empty string, will not throw an "inproper protocol error" exception.
• [Improvements] All: As noted earlier, the positioning of the widgets that make the WordGuise have led to numerous fixes and improvements under the hood. As a result some bugs may have been created for both platforms and some existing bugs might not have been addressed.
System requirements:
REALbasic 5.5 or later.
System requirements: s
PPC/Intel
For more information, visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/vanhoek/#wordguise
Mt. St. Helens VolcanoCam Widget 2.3
More than just a simple webcam, this widget displays a half-size static image from the Mount St. Helens Volcanocam, as well as the current volcano Alert Level as assigned by the US Geological Survey. The Alert Level is not available on the volcanocam site, but the widget displays both the image and the Alert Level in a single, easy to access place. The VolcanoCam image and the Alert Level automatically updates approximately every five minutes.
As always, the Volcanocam button below the image will take you to the official website in your default web browser. In the same way, the Alert Level button takes you to the USGS site for an explanation of the Alert Level.
New since version 2.1 is automatic version checking. If a newer version has been released, the Volcanocam button will change colors and caption to let you know. In that case the button will take you to this site instead of the Volcanocam site.
The current version is 2.3, please download the latest version if your current version is older.
New in version 2.3:
• New version now uses the new High Definition webcam.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://graymkt.home.comcast.net/
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