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9 Janvier 2021
Macs have a lot of unique applications out of the box. One of these is called Dashboard, which is an application that basically goes over your desktop and displays widgets. These widgets can serve all kinds of purposes, from being a useful and convenient, quick calculator to a widget that displays The Simpsons quotes (known as HomerQuotes, now discontinued). By default, there are only four widgets that appear on your Dashboard. Adding more of these widgets is certainly not difficult, and can serve to improve productivity or offset stress.
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First, you want to click on the Dashboard icon. If you've got no idea what that is, you can see it highlighted in the image above.
Press the button with the + at the bottom left of the Dashboard screen.
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A selection of other widgets will appear from the bottom of the screen. These are widgets you can pick from and add by default. In order to download and install more other ones, click Manage Widgets.
When the Manage Widgets dialog box pops up, click the More Widgets button at the bottom.
This should prompt your default browser to take you to the Dashboard Widgets website. There are a huge amount of perfectly compatible widgets on this website. In this tutorial, I'll be downloading the InterfaceLift Wallpaper widget.
Scroll down the website until you reach the Widget Browser. In the categories, select Just For Fun, then InterfaceLift Wallpapers. Click the Download button on the right.
Go into your Downloads folder, or find the recently downloaded InterfaceLiftWallpapers1.0.zip folder in your Downloads stack. Click it to extract it.
The file should be extracted, with the Dashboard icon next to it. Simply double click it to run. Office 15 mac.
Dashboard will confirm that you want to install the InterfaceLift widget. Click Install to finalize the installation.
This widget will appear on your Dashboard. Use the left and right arrows at the bottom of the widget to navigate between pictures. If you find one you love, click on the picture and it will take you to the InterfaceLift website, where you can download the image and set it as your wallpaper.
Installing new widgets isn't as hard as it seems! Neither is customizing your desktop, learning iCal shortcuts, or installing new fonts on your Mac. Have fun!
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Widgets are great, but how do you make them? The answer is use Dashcode. Dashcode is Apples answer to a super simple, yet super powerful way to drag and drop code for widgets. It really doesn't take long to make a widget. In this tutorial I am going to show you the basic steps in how to create an RSS widget for use on your site. I have been playing around with it for the last couple of days and as a result I have got to know how the program works. Soon I am also going to produce a widget for this site, cool.
1) The first step is to install Dashcode. Dashcode is part of the XCode tools. You don't need to install all of the XCode tools to get this to work. If you have the Leopard disk handy pop it in your CD drive and navigate to Optional Installs > XCode Tools > Dashcode.pkg. Install this app. It doesn't take long and is placed in Developer > Applications. Not in your applications folder. It took me a while to figure that out.
2) Once you have figured out how to install Dashcode and found out where it is located open up Dashcode and you will be presented with a couple of default options for templates. This type of choice is very similar to many Apple apps. For RSS you have two options RSS and Daily RSS. I have chosen the first option. It really doesn't matter which. Like I have said many times before, play. Follow through this guide so you have the general jist of what happens and then just play about if what happens, it is more fun that way anyway.
3) Once you click on the RSS template, you will be presented with a very simple interface. The left hand side contains all of the bits you are using. This could be images, sliders etc, they are contained here. As well as this the draw also includes images for the icon and more importantly settings for you widget. On the left hand side contains the interface used to build and design you widget. This is the very visual part of the interface. You can move parts around the canvas, resize your widget, pretty much do what ever you want. Widgets are built up from CSS, HTML and javascript. It takes a bit of a while to get use to but it is very easy to figure out how it works. Finally at the top there is the toolbar which contains tools such as play, to make your widget work, as well as the inspector and library. You will use these tools more and more when you start to play around with the application. The library button is very useful for inserting code for parts such as buttons or sliders.
When you have figured out how everything works drag and drop your RSS feed onto the widget. Alternatively your can go through the attributes option at the bottom.
4) It is worth noting at this point that you should look through the widget attributes and the source code of the widget, even though you don't have to change anything it is very good to see how the underly coding works. You will slowly get an idea of how things work and what happens when you change things.
5) The final stage is to test and build you widget. To test click on the play button in the top left corner, this will open a mock style dashboard, you can then proceed to play with the the widget to make sure everything works. To build and export your widget go to File > Deploy Widget. It will save it out as the necessary file and you are done.
It is really easy to complete and doesn't take long at all for a widget to be made. I am going to continue to fiddle with the code and produce a widget for this site. At the moment it is half done, I just have to finish off a few things. Stay tuned.
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I usually use Reykjavik, Iceland which is also on GMT and does not observe daylight saving time. Pretty pointless in a country that has almost 24 hours sunlight in summer :)
I think it would be sensible if Apple would create a GMT/UTC timezone for the clock widget. I have submitted that to them via feedback a few years ago but who knows what happened to that idea :-/
On the iPhone you can type 'UTC' in the choose a city search box and UTC will show up and work. This also seems to work on the Date & Time control panel in the Time Zone tab on my OSX 10.8.4 system. I suspect it might work in the Dashboard widget if there was a search box that allowed UTC to be entered.
The Freetown hint seems to be the only option. I don't see a UTC option as on the iPhone.
Or you can do this:
UTC / GMT / Zulu for the Mac World Clock
If you require the display of UTC / GMT (Greenwich Mean time) once in a while, this little hack might be useful to you.
The Mac comes with a beautiful world clock widget that allows placement of various local clocks on the dashboard and is really helpful for people that communicate on a global level. The only thing missing is an option for UTC display (important for HAM radio). This little hack adds a GMT option to the standard World Clock widget.
Open a Terminal window on your MAC. Navigate to the widget directory.
cd /Library/Widgets/
In there you should find a subdirectory for any of the standard widgets that came with OS X. Locate the World clock widget directory and enter it.
cd World Clock.wdgt
Open the file WorldClock.js for editing with your favourite editor
sudo vi WorldClock.js
Locate the Europe section and just above Amsterdam, add this line.
{city:'GMT/UTC', offset:0, timezone:'UTC', id:'2647937'},
Save the file and open the dashboard. Add a new World Clock widget and that should now have an option to add GMT/UTC in the Europe section.
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