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BBC ListenAgain Widget v2.0
ML Baseball Widget 1.3
MLB Standings - 1.5 Displays Current Baseball Standings Widget
Adobe Creative Studio Help 1.0
Image Upload 1.0
Oxford English - 1.0 Spelling, Pronunciation & More Widget Dictionary
Pregnancy Calculator 1.5.3
BART Widget 1.0.1
BBC ListenAgain Widget v2.0
BBC ListenAgain Widget... This widget allows browsing and playing of the BBC's excellent archive of recently transmitted radio programmes. It lovingly gathers the ListenAgain archives into one list filtered by radio station or genre. There's no configuration, just make the tea, select a programme, close your eyes and think of Britain.
This version adds the much needed, and much requested, ability to skip forward and back through playing programmes. Rather than fast forward the skip jumps ahead in convenient increments.
Funnily enough the thing that took the longest time was drawing the new image for the control buttons.
New in version 2.0:
• Skip forward and back
• Resize bug fix
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Requires RealPlayer
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger is required. If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it.
Troubleshooting: If you cannot play radio streams, and also cannot play streams directly from the BBC web site in Safari then RealPlayer is probaly not installed or configured properly.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.keilly.com/Welcome.html
ML Baseball Widget 1.3
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 1.3:
New features:
• Show scheduled starting pitchers for future games when available.
Improvements/bug fixes:
• Distinguish better between days with no data available and days with no games scheduled - this should make things work correctly over the All-Star break.
• Show scrollbar on scoreboard for games with more than 16 games.
• Make the game detail popup a little more responsive - it is now possible to select another game to display before the previously selected game has finished loading.
• Don't retrieve data twice when loading the widget for the first time.
• Improve scoreboard display for games with in-game delay and suspended games.
• Fix alternating row backgrounds in standings view.
• Lots of code refactoring to ease code-sharing among widgets.
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
MLB Standings - 1.5 Displays Current Baseball Standings Widget
The MLB Standings widget is a simple dashboard widget which provides the current major league baseball standings for all teams. You can choose which league and division you would like to keep track of and every time you open the dashboard the information is pulled straight from MLB.com's standings page.
Forum
The forum is a great place for MLB Standings widget users to interact with each other, as well as keep in contact with Logan, the widget's creator. You can use this forum to report problems you are having, suggestions for new versions and just general discussion about the widget. This is a much better and more public way for feedback to flow between all of the widget's users and it should help the development of the MLB Standings widget in the future. You can visit the forum here.
New in version 1.5:
• Changed source of all information to use MLB.com's data, which should improve speed and reliability.
• Added Wild Card standings as an option.
• Added a Check for Updates feature that will notify when new versions are available.
System requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.4.3 or higher
System Support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.burgundylogan.com/MLBStandings/
Adobe Creative Studio Help 1.0
Adobe Creative Studio Help widget provides a collection of hints and tips for Adobe's brilliant Creative Suite.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/25115/adobe-creative-studio-help
Image Upload 1.0
The Image Upload widget is the easiest and quickest means by which to share pictures from your Apple computer over the internet. By merely dropping your desired image onto the widget, your file is uploaded privately and free of charge to ImageShack, converted into a short, web-friendly TinyURL, and copied onto your pasteboard ready for action.
If you're using Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. If you're using a browser other than Safari, click the download link. When the widget download is complete, unarchive it and place it in /Library/Widgets/ in your home folder. Show Dashboard, click the Plus sign to display the Widget Bar and click the widget's icon in the Widget Bar to open it. Using the Image Upload widget is a fairly straightforward process. Simply locate the picture file that you wish to upload, click and begin dragging it with your cursor, and while continuing to hold down your mouse button, bring up your dashboard - by default, by pressing the F12 key. Drag the picture file so that it is above the Image Upload widget's drop container, then release the mouse button to drop the file onto the widget. Your image will be promptly uploaded to Image Shack, and depending on the preferences you have set on the widget's back-side, the direct link to the image will either remain intact, or be converted into a TinyURL, before being copied to your pasteboard. Following the presentation of the Complete view and optional auditory completion chime, you can paste the link wherever you please - perhaps into a chat conversation window, email, blog post, web forum reply, or Twitter message.
As mentioned, the back-side of the widget contains a selection of preferences to change the Image Upload widget's default behaviour. The widget can be flipped by pressing the arrow button that becomes visible when hovering your cursor over the widget body. When the "Crush URL" checkbox is unticked, the final url copied to your pasteboard will instead be the direct Image Shack link to the uploaded picture file - for those paranoid friends that doubt that you're actually linking them to a picture (the ones you don't like). The "Play Sound" preference is more self explanatory - after unchecking this box, the upload complete notification warning will not be played.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.modelconcept.net/image-upload-widget/
• Direct download link:
http://www.modelconcept.net/image-upload-widget.zip
Oxford English - 1.0 Spelling, Pronunciation & More Widget Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
This widget gives immediate access to headwords, pronunciation and word-class information from the well-known Oxford Advanced Learner's dictionary of Current English. No Internet access is required to use the widget, as all information will be stored locally.
A so-called "computer-usable" version of the third edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English is available free of charge for non-commercial purposes from the Oxford Text Archive. This widget exploits this resource to make a lightweight dictionary containing British spelling, pronunciation and word-class information, but no definitions.
Installation
Due to copyright regulations, the dictionary data need to be downloaded directly from the Oxford Text Archive, but the installation is nevertheless quite straightforward:
1. Download the widget itself. If you are not using Safari or have changed the default settings, you may need to double-click on the archive to decompress it and/or on the widget to install it. If you try to use it, the message "Dictionary missing" will be shown.
2. Download the installation script. If necessary, double-click on the archive to decompress it.
3. Get the dictionary file from the Oxford Text Archive. To do this, you need to agree to the terms and conditions by clicking on the check box and then click on the download link for "ASCII Tex" (the second of the three links marked "Download", not "DOS ASCII Tex").
4. Move the downloaded file ascii-0710-1.tar into the folder Oxford English Installation. Warning: Other files moved into this folder may be overwritten and deleted.
5. Open the folder Oxford English Installation and double-click on Install.command to convert the dictionary file to a suitable format and install it. This may take a few seconds; please wait for the message "[Process completed]".
6. The widget is now ready to use. The folder Oxford English Installation may be discarded.
System requirements
Mac OS X Tiger version 10.4.3 or newer is required, as is the standard font Optima Bold.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://xn--istein-9xa.no/widget/en
Pregnancy Calculator 1.5.3
Calculate the prospective birth date, the progress of the pregnancy, the SSW, and the days up to the birth.
New in version 1.5.3:
• Reduced file size
• Fixed little Bug
• Fixed Bug with Cycle length
• This Version is only in English
System requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.3 (or newer)
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://www.lbergelt.de/swwidget.html
BART Widget 1.0.1
Ride that train, baby.
A trip planner for the BART train system in the northern California bay area.
Instructions for use:
1. Open dashboard.
2. See when the next train is coming.
3. Enjoy your smog-free public transportation.
Advanced use:
• Drag baubles on a map to set your route.
• Click the clock to set the date and time. (You can also drag the display or mousewheel.)
• Click the heart to bookmark your route.
• Click the speaker for voice announcements.
No network connection is required. The BART widget is a self-contained trip planner that you can take with you. It's free and open-source.
New in version 1.0.1:
• Leopard compatibility.
• Fixed out-of-date Classic map.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Free
For more information, visit:
http://worrydream.com/bartwidget/
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