Leopard Feature today: Dash Clipping for Tiger

Why wait for OS X 10.5 Leopard when you can get those features now? Well, you can get some of the features. In particular I want to mention Dash Clipping for Tiger:

Dash Clipping is a universal widget tool that allows you to turn any part of any web page into a Dashboard widget with a couple of clicks. Download it here. Feedback to the usual address.

If this sounds familiar it's because it's a shameless rip-off of the new Web Clipping tool that's due in Leopard and that I knocked together over the last 24 hours. If you watch the video on that page (and the keynote) carefully, you'll realise all Apple's doing is loading the whole web page but only showing part of it. There's nothing clever about what they're doing, and there's nothing clever about my version either, though I did have to write part of it in Cocoa to get in working (you can almost do it with just an IFRAME, but not quite).

I've made two widget clippings and this widget worked as advertised. Very easy and very similar to the feature currently advertised at the Apple Leopard website.

I've not blogged yet about Apple's WWDC announcements... hope to remedy that soon. For now I'll say that I'm very excited about the current state of OS X and the future looks even better!

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