Software
If you’re looking to get into the holiday spirit, you might want to grab this widget, which not only has a Christmas countdown, but also has an RSS feed that connects directly to Santa’s online Journal, letting you know just what Jolly Old Saint Nick is up to in preparation for Christmas. Fun, huh? Click
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Widget Watch: Santa’s Journal
Software
I haven’t used my Dashboard in a while. In fact – I hardly ever use the Dashboard at all. Still, sometimes a cool widget comes my way, and I like to pass it along. My Tube is such a widget. Interdimension Media has released this bad boy, and what it does is provide browsing, searching,
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Widget Watch: Interdimension Media releases MyTube
Widgets
While searching through the Apple.com downloads section looking for something interesting to post about, I stumble upon this really cool and useful widget. It’s called EasyEnvelopes, and it does exactly what you would think a widget called that would do. It makes making Envelopes easy. With a simple Address Book search, you have your letter
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Widget Watch: Easy Envelopes
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Screenshots are not as easy on the Mac as they should be. There are several applications out there that attempt to make it easier, and lots of them do a good job, but Screenshot Plus is the first Widget I’ve seen that takes on the task…and it does a great job. In fact, it’s so
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Widget Watch: Screenshot Plus
On the Web
You may, or may not, have heard of Tumblr.com – it’s an even more compact kind of blog, called a tumblelog. It’s almost more like a collection of random thoughts, pics, and links for the most part…but it’s a lot of fun. It pre-dates Twitter, but kind of seems like a Twitter/Blog/Del.icio.us hybrid sort of
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Widget Watch: Tumblet
Software
Living in Texas, the weather is an issue. Besides the fact that it feels like the surface of the sun here in the summer, in the spring, it never fails that at least once, the family has to crawl into the hallway and hope that a tornado doesn’t come blow us all way. (I swear,
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Widget Watch: NOAA Weather Center
On the Web
As far as I know, this is the first widget made my Microsoft for OS X. (I know if I am wrong, someone will quickly point it out to me). The widget is for the Microsoft online LIVE site. It’s called Live Search Mini, and looks pretty and shiny…at least this image does…I’m not downloading
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1st Sign of Armageddon – Microsoft Makes a Widget
Widgets
Another fine example of how simple it can be to make cool widgets in Dashcode is this new Mighty Monitor widget. It tracks the battery life of your Mighty Mouse and/or Wireless Keyboard. I find this widget very useful for letting me know when it’s time to switch out the batteries in my Mighty Mouse.
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Widget Watch: Mighty Monitor
Mac
Twitter is kind of exploding…maybe you’ve heard of it. If not…let me explain…Twitter is…um…well…kinda hard to explain. Basically the point of Twitter is to answer one simple question… “What are you doing?” It’s almost like a micro blog that exists so friends can keep in touch with you, or so readers can find out what
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5 Ways to Twitter your Brains out on your Mac
Software
There are a lot of iTunes widgets out there…but this one is – by far – my favorite. Not only is it a slick iTunes interface that is nice and zippy, it also has some cool direct connections to the iTunes store, giving you quick access to some of the hottest stuff out right now.
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Widget Watch: Listen
