Dashcode for Mac

February 5, 2007 – 6:28 pm

As we all know now, every Mac has this niffyt thing called the Dashboard which has Widgets in it. Apple promises that with their next update to OS X, Leopard, they will include a new tool, Dashcode, to make your very own Widgets!

Well, browsing their site I found a beta of Dashcode, and downloaded it yesterday. Here are some screen shots of me making a simple RSS widget. It will display this website’s posts on the Dashboard so that you never have to type the address into the bar again.

When you open Dashcode you are presented with this:

After selecting “RSS” this came up


To get my site displayed I simply dragged and droped the link to my RSS (this one) into the middle of the new Widget.

Next I hit RUN

And my new widget appeared on my screen for testing. Seemed to work!

Needed to be wider;

And now its done!

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