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Title: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: StrikerObi on January 27, 2007, 05:42:04 PM
I was bored tonight, so I downloaded Apple's public beta of Dashcode, a program that lets you make OS X Dashboard Widgets. It's crazy easy, and I actually made two. The first displays the last 20 headlines from the site's RSS feed, and the second is a streaming player for our Radio Free Nintendo podcast. For those of you on OS X (10.4.3 or later), you can download them here:

News: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/podcast/nwrnews.zip
Podcast: http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/podcast/rfnplayer.zip

If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!
Title: RE:NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Shift Key on January 27, 2007, 06:31:30 PM
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If you have any feedback I'd love to hear it!


I dun have OS X. I don't like OS X.

But seriously, these look to be some cool applets. I'll see how easy this is to make using Superkaramba and perhaps make a KDE equivalent (as that's my primary desktop these days).

EDIT: I've modified an existing RSS applet to display NWR data - its not as pretty as the OS X widgets yet. If anyone's interested I'll put it up for download. I'm going to work on the streaming media player in the meantime.
Title: RE: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Nick DiMola on January 27, 2007, 07:19:22 PM
The RSS one looks real sharp! You should put a link to this somewhere on the frontpage. I'm sure people other than the ones who read these forums wouldn't mind having these available for download.
Title: RE: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: 18 Days on January 27, 2007, 08:37:13 PM
RSS one is great. Already subscribed to the podcast though.
Title: RE: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: StrikerObi on January 28, 2007, 03:49:25 AM
I'm sure we'll put them on the front page eventually, I just want to get some feedback first.
Title: RE: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Ceric on January 28, 2007, 05:31:26 AM
I guess as a Winders person I'll look into making a Sidebar Gadget.
Title: RE:NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Mysticspike on February 01, 2007, 01:54:35 PM
what is this forum about.
Title: RE:NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Shift Key on February 01, 2007, 09:33:29 PM
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Originally posted by: mysticspike
what is this forum about.


You are my new favourite poster. Check out the Newbie thread if you want to introduce yourself.
Title: RE: NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: matt oz on February 02, 2007, 02:04:47 AM
Thanks, this is really cool!

Now I finally have something unique on my dashboard.
Title: RE:NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Mysticspike on February 02, 2007, 09:09:12 AM
You are my new favourite poster. Check out the Newbie thread if you want to introduce yourself.


thank you. some of the others are rather fond. i do tend to make friends easily, but what exacly is this all about?
Title: RE:NWR Dashboard (OS X) Widgets
Post by: Shift Key on February 02, 2007, 01:10:50 PM
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Originally posted by: mysticspike
what exacly is this all about?


Obi built a couple of NWR-related widgets for OSX users. Lavish praise on him immediately.